When they awoke early the next morning, Nephi was kind of lost in thought. He didn’t say a lot while he fried cured bacon in the revived embers of the previous night’s fire. When the bacon was finished and they sat enjoying their breakfast, Nephi finally spoke.
“Johnny, I want to thank you very much for last night. I don’t know if you will have me, but I feel I owe it to you to offer my hand, seeing as I had marital relations with you last night.”
“Marital relations?” said Johnny, visibly taken aback.
“Yes, I had intimate contact and now I feel I should show you respect.”
“Well, Nephi, I am honored that you feel that way. I was wondering how I was gonna ask you to take off from these here parts with me.”
“I been thinking. I can remember when some of the elders came to my pa’s and bega
