Missionary comp with a Jewish Rabi

This is part of the letter that we just got from Scott last Monday.

My companion is Elder Wigington. He is from North Carolina and has been about for about 11 transfers. He was called Spanish speaking; butfor the first third of his mission, he was put in the English/Hebrewspeaking program. Hebrew? You might ask. Why does he speak Hebrew?
Well, he used to be a Jew, of course! Elder Wigington joined the Church about 29 months ago. Thirteen months after his baptism he entered into the MTC. He is quite remarkable but still has a lot of his little Jewishtraits.

Elder Wigington was actually going to school to become a Rabi; andwhile in the MTC, he received his certificate of completion. So, I amcompanions with a Jewish Rabi. Who would have thought? He got an awesomescholarship for $450,000 at the school he went to and had been offered a

job that would send him to California to be a Rabi there. The job paid $270,000 a year and included a house, cars... pretty much everything but his cell phone bill. One day he was coming home, and he heard a lot of noise coming from his

neighbor's house. He was upset because he had to get up at 4:30 to make some bread or something for the Sabbath, so he went over to the house to give them a piece of his mind. When he walked up to them the first thing that popped out of his mouth was "Do you need some help?" They said, "Yes," and they also happened to be members of the church. The Elders were there helping and asked him two questions: "Where do you get you authority? and why was Malachi the last prophet?" Two questions that hecouldn't answer. He called up his head Rabi at his school and asked him; and apparently, he told him that he had authority because he was a scholar and Malachi was the last prophet because the Jews fell away from the truth. The missionaries gave him a Book of Mormon which he flung into hisroom; and later he walked in and saw it opened up on his bed facing him,so he started to read; and he read something that was identical to something found in the Talmud, (the law of the Jews). It was in Mosiah chapter 3:9 (I think), then he realized that if you take the Hebrew characters that mean Jehovah and re-arrange them, it spells Jeshua,which is the Hebrew name of Jesus. He was shocked and fell to his knees

telling God that he has always been trying to get close to him, and heneeded to know NOW if Jesus Christ was the messiah.

At that moment he knew without a doubt and hasn't looked back since. His family pretty much disowned him. They kicked him out of their house, and he lived with the missionaries for 10 months. His parents write him still and love him, but things aren't the same as they used to be,
obviously.

That, in a nutshell is my companion. Ta-dah!