BYU Education Week - Part 1

On Thursday, Bonnie Peterson (Elder Dallin Peterson's mom) and I traveled down to Provo to meet Elder Woolf's parents. All of our boys are serving in Peru Lima North. Before we met with them, Bonnie and I attended a couple of classes.

The first one was taught by Lawrence Flake, and it was about HUMOR. Here are some of the notes I took.

1. Whenever President Faust blessed a baby, he always prayed for the baby to grow up with a sense of humor.

2. Elder Neal Maxwell once said, that all of the prophets he had ever known personally, had a sense of humor.

3. Elder Packer, told of the last time that Elder David B. Haight and Elder Neal Maxwell attended a meeting of the Quorum of 12 apostles. They both had walking canes, and started a "duel" with each other. He said that fortunately the brethren were able to "break it up" before any blood was shed. (TOO FUNNY)

4. Elder Neal Maxwell's wife once had this to say about Elder Maxwell, who was well known for his use of the English language: "Neal had to ask me 3 times to marry him, before I could understand what he was saying !"

5. When President Hinckley was dedicating the Orlando Temple, he noticed that the chairs in the Celestial Room were lavender. He said, "PURPLE CHAIRS in the TEMPLE?", "PURPLE CHAIRS in the TEMPLE?"........... the temple builders, designers, were looking around uneasily, and then he said....."I LIKE IT :)" (Can't you just picture him doing that?)

6. President Monson's ability to wiggle his ears.

7. President Kimball was heavily involved in the sacred duty of missionary assignment. One Stake President had written on an Elder's application, that his mother had requested that he not be sent more than 500 miles from home, so that she might be able to visit him..... President Kimbal, without even a hint of a smile, said, "Brethren, I feel inspired that this missionary should be sent to South Africa".

8. Speaking of missionary humor, Elder Flake, who was once a missionary president, said that he had noticed on a certain missionary's bio, that he could type 35 wpm, and so this missionary was chosen to be the President's clerk/secretary. After a week or so, it became apparent that his typing skills were sorely lacking. President Flake asked him about it, and the missionary, said he better check the bio again........sure enough, it said his words per minute were 3 TO 5.....

9. Also, during President Flake's mission tenure, they had a sister missionary who was about to be sent home at the end of her mission. She had a bit of a hard mission, and many trials, which in turn became the President's trials. In the letter which was sent to her parents, there was a small "typo"......only ONE letter wrong - it said, "She gave us alot of hell".....it was supposed to say "help".

10. He also told of missionaries who had a problem with their bikes being stolen. The new mission motto was, "Locked tight or EYES locked tight on the bike". One day a couple of missionaries parked their bikes on the front lawn of an investigator, and when they went in her home, one of the missionaries positioned himself, so that he could keep an eye on their bikes. Halfway through the lesson he yelled, "Elder, your bike has just been stolen!". The Elder jumped up, ran out the door, jumped on the bike that was still there, and took off after the thief, who had a half a block on him. The thief underestimated the determination of a MAD missionary. The Elder finally caught up with him, pulled along side, and literally jumped off the bike and onto the thief, knocking the bicycle down. Thankfully a cop was nearby, and came and arrested the thief - the good part about the story?? The man had a warrant AND reward out for him, and the missionary got $200 reward money that he used to repair his bike, AND his torn suit :)

11. Be LightHEARTED - NOT LightMINDED

Part 2 - coming soon..............