What's up!!
This week has been pretty wild! The work has definitely been
going good! We picked up 2 more new investigators and had a bunch of lessons
with some of our other investigators. Also, we put Jamell on date to be
baptized on May 14 we're stoked!!! He is stoked too, he came to church
yesterday and loved it! Jason should be on date too but he wasn't able to come
to church yesterday... But he will next week! And we gave him a blessing to
help him overcome smoking and he is super motivated to stop!! Keep him in your
prayers!!! We taught Michael the Plan of Salvation which hit him super hard (in
a good way) because 2 of his closest friends had been killed that week. The
gospel is the best!!
Anyways on to story time.. We were contacting around this
apartment complex and we contacted this dude named Tyrone, to give you a mental
image of this guy, he had half of his teeth missing and he was an older black
dude. But the first time we talked to him he was telling us that we need to
watch our tongues and how Jesus was telling him what to tell us and it was all
this crazy nonsense, but he was chill with
us and then we went our different ways. Then not even 30 minutes later we were
knocking some doors and he answered the door so we started talking to him again
and he wasn't having the whole Joseph Smith story, so this is what he said:
"Alright alright we're bout to get real. I'm bout to get real. We're bout
to get BUTT-NAKED REAL!" Meanwhile the bus had just dropped off a bunch of
elementary aged kids and their parents were there to pick them up and they were
all walking right by us as this was happening! I promise we didn't get
butt-naked real whatever that means! #2 We were contacting again and we talked
to this lady who was very nice but not very interested and she lived in a
neighborhood a street away from the hood so she told us to be careful with the
people in the next neighborhood over and we said thank you we will and all that
stuff and literally 3 seconds after we said bye to her Earnest drove by and
slammed on his brakes because he saw us and reversed to come talk to us and he
was holding a huge joint and said loud enough for the whole quiet neighborhood
to hear "What the *bleep* is up fellas??? Y'all are lookin spiffed the
*bleep* out!! Don't mind this *bleep* man (referring to his joint) I miss you
*bleepas*" meanwhile that lady's jaw was on the ground haha Earnest is the
man! (Side note from Jen: Upon further
investigation of Earnest, I found a story about him several emails back called
“March Madness”. Earnest is an investigator of theirs who calls himself
the “OG” or Original Gangster. I was a little worried after reading this
email the first time, so no worries haha, they know Earnest:/) One
more story sorry this is so long. We contacted this lady at a bus stop and it
was warm outside so of course she was in her short short short shorts and she
was a larger black lady. Shortly into the conversation we found out that she
was a stripper so of course it got a little weird for all of us but it was ok
because we found out that she was the prophet! She prefers to be addressed as
Prophet Tyra the Stripper. She said that she can predict things in the future
so I asked her what was gonna happen in 2 years and she said that she was gonna
be the President of the United States! So everyone vote for Prophet Tyra the
Stripper! I'm sorry if any of this offended anyone, it’s just another week in
the hood!
Anyways I hope y'all have a good week!
-Elder Larson
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| Picture that was snagged mid lesson with an investigator |
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| Bowling with the District |
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