Pictures from the Mission field

For my birthday Jourdan sent his SD memory card home filled with pictures. What a wonderful gift it was! He continues to do very well. His letters are very upbeat and inpirational. He is currently a trainer and is dedicated to helping his compaion be the best he can be. He continues to be a strong influence for good out there Ohio.

Becasue the pictures were on the memory chip nothing had a caption on it....so we are up to ourselver to figure everything out. I believe this first picture is his companion in Twinsburg, Elder Bell. The second picture is the gentleman that they lived with in Twinsburg. Last is a picture of a woman he called his second mom. She took good care of him while he was in Alliance

Mitchells new home!

Mitchell in the doorway of his new home!













Mitchell and his roomate Jered









Collin and Mitchell
The family in Mitch's kitchen















On Monday we were able to move Mitchell into his new home. Jered and Collin, Mitch's new roomates, happily welcomed him. Jered loves to ride bikes and is excited that Mitchell will be able to ride along with him. I asked Mitch, after his first day, if he likes living on his own. His response was..."I love it!" We are so proud and thrilled for him to make this new change. It will be an anjustment but he has such a positive attitude about the whole thing! Our prayers and love are with you Mitch!

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Ohio Trivia

The Other areas ad misionaries in the district are Sister Cope (Kennith cope's neice) and sister Skinner in Solon. and sister Packer and Sister Ruff in Hiram. Hiram ohio is where the John Johnson farm is. a few sections of the D&C were written there. the prophet Joseph spent a lot of time there. Sister Skinner's parents jsut moved to salem Ohio. which those of you rembember was in the last ward i served in-alliance. so her parents just moved into the mission. that would be so crazy. don't get any ideas mom and dad. also i learned something cool about Salem Ohio this week. The first angel Moroni that they made and put on the SLC temple was cast and made in Salem Ohio. there are still all sorts of steel yards and iron casting factories out there today. kinda neat.

Freezing Rain

This is the latest news from Jourdan. He helps us understand the wonderful weather in Ohio. Burr it sound fun!?!

i want to tell you some of the wonders of freezing rain, so you can know just how wonderful yesterday was.
so its cold. and its raining, so natrually that rain freezes, and for some reason it doesn't turn to snow. it turns into little bb like ice drops that sting when they hit you. when they hit you instead of like hail that bounces off, it splatters and freezes. your probibally thinking that after a few hundred drops hit in one spot you could get a pretty good layer of ice there. Well your right! and the rain hits everwhere. and it rained all day. so yesterday ohio was covered in a nice thick layer of ice. and so was I! haha it was nuts!! now i know it sounds great and all but, there are a few things that you need to be aware of when your world suddenly turns to ice.

1. you fall. . . . a lot
2. for those of you who have seen cool runnings when Sanka is in the ice cream truck and snaps of a peice of his hair.... that is real.
3. there such a thing as a chevy malibu-popcycle
4. its probibally safer to run with scisors than to drive.

so if you ever are caught unawares in a frozen rain storm, be prepared for those 4 things

To read all of Jourdans letter and to hear about his latest baptism please visit his website. Forgot the password, just email and we'll send it to you.

So we had it confirmed that Meilin does indeed have Dyslexia. Mom and Meilin spent over two hours with a professional dyslexia tester doing tests to find out. We are so glad that we found out as early as we did. Even though she is behind we caught it soon enough to get her caught back up quickly. Her type of dyslexia is an auditory processing disorder. She has a difficult time processing written and oral information. We have invested in a tutoring program that helps dyslexia children learn to read and we bagan teaching her at home . Surprisngly enough the schools don't know and aren't trained on how to teach kids with dyslexia. So it is up to the families to help their own kids learn. We started the program two weeks ago with Meilin and during the testing today the area where we have been tutoring her on her scores were way high! The tester said that that was a wonderful sign that what we were doing was working and that we are on the right path to finally helping her learn to read. Meilin is such a trooper! We have been so proud of how she has tried and tried and never given up even though things have been very hard for her. She is amazing! You go girl!!!!