Craziest week ever.

This week was by far the craziest week of my entire mission.

On Thursday we had a lunch with some elders in our district. It was
pretty fun. We had to pickup the Spanish elders because they don't
have a car. On our way back to their apartment, we saw a truck stopped
in the middle of a busy intersection with its hazard lights on. We
pulled into a parking lot and got out and pushed this guys truck into
another parking lot. He thanked us and said he was "in a bind right
now". Elder Penrod and I went to get a Book of Mormon from our car to
give to him. We went up to his window and introduced ourselves. He
then turned extremely angry. He told us that he hates God, because God
took his son away from him. He said that some black guy had killed his
son. He was swearing and yelling at us and just freaking out. He then
got out of his car and started pushing us away from his truck. We
walked back to our car, and that's when he saw Elder Nabo. Elder Nabo
is a big black dude from Africa, and this guy started swearing and
yelling all sorts of racist stuff towards him. Then the guy said to
elder Nabo "I've got something in the back of my truck for you" he
then went back to his truck and got a big club and started walking
towards us. He never hit us or elder Nabo, but I honestly believe that
if he had a gun on him he would have shot elder Nabo and probably all
of us.
Crazy junk.

We also had another crazy experience. Kelli came back! She had been in
the hospital for 9 days. We went over to her house and she told us all
what had happened. She said that she hasn't smoked in 9 days, and she
has been reading her Book of Mormon a lot. She also ended up teaching
the restoration to someone in the hospital. She said she wants to find
out how she can share her testimony with others. It's very cool to see
the change in her. She also wanted some Book of Mormons and pass along
cards so she could pass them out. Pretty dope.
However... Satan wasn't too happy with the change that occurred in
Kelli. Kelli's mom Amy came out during our catch up lesson with her.
She told us that she doesn't want Kelli to be baptized. (Just remember
that Amy is a member of the church) when we asked her why, she said
that she hated us personally, that our ward mission leader and mission
President are (a very bad word) and that she didn't want us to come
over any more. All of this is because during those 9 days Kelli was
gone, Amy expected us to come visit her ever single day like we had
for Kelli. We came by twice, and we explained to her that we wouldn't
be able to come by every day because she was a member, and it's not
our job to teach members.

 Anyways, she was so mad she ended up kicking kelli out of the house.
Kelli at that point was homeless. Not an hour after that happened,
Kelli found out that her little sister back in Houston is in critical
condition at the hospital, and that her organs were failing. She told
Amy about that, but that wasn't a good enough reason to let Kelli come
back home, so she was still homeless. That night Kelli ended up
sneaking back home.

The next morning her mom left to go to Houston, and left Kelli two
boxes of cigarettes and a note that said "I hope you smoke both of
these so you don't get baptized" Kelli didn't smoke them which was
good.

Yesterday, Amy actually ended up apologizing to us. We've heard rumors
she has multiple personality disorder, and now I completely believe
it. It's so weird.

Anyways, that was a long email. This week was actually our best week
yet. We found 9 new investigators which is awesome.

-Elder Jones