Week #27

January 25, 2016

Wow this week was a lot of fun! My new area is much less populated than my last but there are a lot of good people here. Me and Elder Bowcut get along super well which is a ton of fun and we work really hard together! He is from Spanish Fork utah and went to a year of school before and worked for a year before he came on his mission. He is almost 22 now which is insane! I'm working with an adult here haha. I am learning how to teach simply and effectively from Elder Bowcut. For the most part, my new area is really spread out but the people here are super nice, for the most part. We met a few not nice people this week haha. We don't havea a whole lot of investigators here that are too solid but I will let you know when I get to know everyone. I am definitely freezing all the time and no we haven't gotten much snow at all! There was supposed to be a huge snow storm this last week but it missed us and got southern Ohio. It's gonna be like 40 degrees today.

I HAVE THE MOST INSANE NEWS TO TELL YOU!!!!! So I went to a family's home the night that I got to Ashland and their name is the Yates. They are an elderly couple that served a service mission with the danville group of Amish people! They recognized my last name and said that they know the Kevin Scoresby Family!! When we were at their house they told me that I was only a 15 minute drive from the Scoresby's house! I couldn't believe it! Everywhere I go I meet people that know the Scoresby's. But we met the Weaver family, one of the Amish families that joined the church, on Sunday at the Yates home, and they have such strong testimonies! They're some of the nicest people that I've ever met. They don't live in our ward boundries but they were visiting the Yates and we were invited to meet them for lunch. 

I don't know where my cord is for my camera to upload pictures so I might have to buy one at walmart so I can send more pictures home. There is one thing that I really need and that is a study journal so I can write thoughts as I read the scriptures and pmg. I want one of the ones that has a strap that closes it. I saw them at walmart but they are 20 bucks so I couldn't bring myself to spend money on it. That's really all I can think of. Thanks mom I love you so much! Ps will you resend Ben's pictures because I can't view them on that website. Also I hope that Liza gets better soon! 

Love, Jack

My new address is 325 A Hillcrest Dr. Ashland, Ohio 44805