It's almost thanksgiving!

This week was very interesting. First off, we have a new person on
date for baptism! His street name is Bone. We met him last Friday when
we were on bikes. He flagged a down and said he was ready to hear us
out. I guess some other missionaries had tried to teach him before. He
was sitting in an empty lot where there are a lot of homeless people
and drugs and alcohol (and gang violence) but we decided to stop by
anyways. We taught the restoration and gave him a pamphlet. That was
all last Friday, and so this Tuesday we came back at 4:00 like we
scheduled with him, and as it turns out, he was actually there, and he
had read the pamphlet.
Then we taught him about the Book of Mormon.
The next day we met him again and he had read 4 chapters, so we taught
him the plan of salvation.
The next day he had read through the pamphlet a lot and had some
questions on how we repent, so we taught him that and also taught him
about the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The next day we taught him about the word of wisdom, and yesterday we
followed up with him on that and taught him some more commandments.
It's going to be very interesting to see where this goes. A lot of
times people are apprehensive about baptizing homeless people because
they sometimes just get baptized so they can get bishop's store house
food for free, but we don't get that feeling about Bone (Michael). But
it will be interesting to see where this goes.

We also met a completely crazy lady. She told us she was married to
bugs bunny. Here is a quote from her
"Bugs bunny! buuugs bunny! BUGGS BUNNAYYY! 7, 7. Lucky number 7! You
see the slots, you want 7. 7. 7. Lucky 7. BUGGS bunny. Born 1987.
Illuminati bugs bunny. I gave a man $5,000,000. Then I gave him 7. 7
milllliiioooon dollars! 7. Beyoncé."

I'm really not making any of that up. It was really weird, but also really sad.

We also taught these two girls named Ty and Atiti. We had been trying
to teach her friend Timeka, but she is always really busy. Ty and
Atiti are actually really open to the Gospel. We had a really good
lesson with them, and we'll be meeting with them tomorrow, so we'll
see how it goes!

We haven't been able to meet with Rita lately because her friend got
cancer and she's been busy helping her.

We had dinner with the Larsen family in our ward. They are really
cool. Brother Larsen has a whole factory in his shed where he makes
bullets which is really cool. He also went on a huge rant about the
election, and how the results of it lifted him out of a deep
depression.

Anyways this week was pretty great! I can't wait for thanksgiving!

-Elder Jones