ello, my name is Mark Poole, and here is a little bit about myself:

     I am a 45 year old optometrist. My father was an optometrist and two of my brothers and I decided to follow in his footsteps. My wife, Rebecca and I have been married for 23 years and are the proud parents of 9 children, ages 4 through 20. Rebecca is a full-time mom (surprise, surprise) and uses her B.S. in Biology (and minor in Chemistry) to help teach our children more about life and Science. (It also comes in handy raising 2 dogs, 8 cats, 1 iguana and a bald python)Our family enjoys music; besides having beautiful voices , various of my children play the piano, saxophone, flute, trombone, trumpet and clarinet. Between ferrying kids to art, music and horse-back riding lessons, Rebecca is taking violin lessons and sings alto in our local church choir. We are all active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ("Mormons"). I first became involved with Scientology in 1989. I became aware that the main thing holding me back in business and life was myself. I saw Scientology as a way of overcoming personal hang-ups and improving my ability to deal with situations and people. I found that it did that, and much more.