Elder Scoresby: Week #57

Hi Mom!

(The Whitemans and Neilsons were vacationing in Ohio and attended Jackson's ward by chance on Sunday. They sent us a picture, included at the end of the letter. It's so great having a stateside missionary!)

It was kind of fun to see the Whitemans even though I don't really know them haha. So we only had one investigator at church on Sunday but the sisters in our ward had an investigator too so we had 2 investigators at our ward which was awesome! Anthony stayed at church all 3 hours and it was so perfect for him! All the talks and all the lessons were so perfectly fit to Anthony's needs, which was amazing! He's still progressing and working towards baptism! He feeds us every single week, too, which is so nice of him. We also helped him this week with some yard work. He has this beautiful house that he co-owns and there was so much work that needed to be done, so we got to help him with that for a little while.

We picked up a new investigator this last week named Orlando, and he's so AWESOME! We taught him the restoration, and when we told him the first vision he said "This is so awesome! I want to go to this church!" He was so excited about the message! He's coming to church with us this Sunday, and after church we're going to visit historic Kirtland. He's on fire right now, and is so prepared to receive the gospel!

Then we went and stopped by this potential investigator we have, and her brother answered the door. Our potential investigator wasn't home so we asked her brother if he would be interested in listening to the message that we share and he was super open! We taught him the whole restoration and he loved it!

We are having a lot of fun finding prepared people here in the Shaker Heights area! Those are the only people that we're really teaching right now. Love it here in this ward! The members are great and the investigators we have are strait fire!

Sounds like you and Dad had an awesome week together! I can't wait to be able to spend time with the family! We are going to have to do some fun things together before Ben leaves on his mission to Australia (prophesy).

Glad Ben is preparing to serve a mission. The two best things he can do to prepare is read the Book of Mormon and read preach my gospel chapter 3, especially the first 3 lessons. He's going to be such an awesome missionary!

Coop Keep up the good work with XC! I know its hard to wake up but its such a good thing to be involved with. Can't wait until you start running races! You'll have to be sure to send me all your times.

Liza, I always see little girls probably close to your age that remind me of you so much! Can't wait to see you in 11 months!

Love you guys so much! Glad things are going well back at home! Miss you all so much but there is no place that I would rather be! I love My mission more than anything! Hope you have a good rest of your week!

Love,

Jack

PS I am dying with my ties! I'm completely sick of all my ties and could use some more! Thanks