"We received 152 referrals..."

Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack is the famous Harold's chicken! Probably the most popular fried chicken place in all of Chicago! They have a money half dark special every Wednesday that is 4 pieces of fried chicken, covered with fries then drizzled in BBQ sauce. It tastes amazing, but man you feel tired after eating that stuff! 

This week was pretty wild, we had a huge ward mission activity that everyone has been looking forward to for a while now. We had our own haunted house in the church and it was LIT! On Thursday and Friday we had 1200 nonmembers come through the church to see our haunted house!! On Thursday night elder Ward and I were in charge of the "tunnel room" we had made a long tunnel that wrapped around the room out of cardboard boxes. We had a couple of black lights in it and a blower blowing through it. When the kids would crawl through we would bang on the boxes and scream haha we had some good scares! The best night was Friday night though. On Friday I was with Elder Bingham and we were assigned to the "freak room" idk what they were trying to say about us, but we had fun! Elder Bingham wrapped me up in toilet paper and I was a mummy, so I laid still on the ground then when kids would come into our room I'd jump at them and scream. Man it was hilarious, we had lots of kids crying and we had a couple adults fall down haha it was a good time. And the best part about it is at the very beginning Brother Pope had them all fill out a paper that asked for their name, phone number, and if they were interested in learning more about the church/worship. We received 152 referrals, all of which have families attached to them!! So we are freakin pumped and are going to have our work cut out for us for the next little while! 

Another great thing that happened this week was our man Gregory, if you remember from a month ago, resurfaced!! We had called him for a while but his phone was disconnected. Then this week we had a prompting to try giving him a call again, so we did and sure enough it rang, and he answered! We were able to meet up with him this week and had a great lesson, in which we put him on date for December 22! He is the nicest old guy and has sincere desires to know the truth.  While he was on the phone with elder ward he said, "who am I speaking with?" which elder ward responded, "elder ward". Haha then Gregory said, "oh ok, is Larry still with you?" Lol my man still calls me Larry! Gotta love it! 

The weather is nice and cool, the leaves are changing colors and it's the best time of year here in the best area! Life is good in the hood! I love and miss y'all!  

Elder Thorpe

Putting together the tunnel room!

E Ward parcore

My boy

The "freak room"