Posted by:
steve benson
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Date: January 02, 2014 10:03PM
At my request, RfM poster "shum"/"shummy" has rolled out, in another thread, an experience he had with Gordon B. Hinckley during a mission-worthiness interview--a tale which, in my opinion, does not deserve to be buried in some other guy's thread.
There, 'shum" revealed the following:
"Well, Jeez, Steve, [I'm] so in awe of your hobnobbing with the Lard's anointed, but I will be Eternally grateful for meeting up with at least one when he was a young up and comer in 1968, i.e., Elder Gordo B Hinckster. I'll always cherish the memory of that day in his office when he turned me down for a mission call.
"I eventually realized that as he threw me out of his office he was kindly throwing me a life-line out of the Morg.
"Such fond memories I have of that raging old goat. Could be why he made profit coz he just knew I wasn't mishie grade fodder.
"And, boy, how I do bless him for keeping my ass of that damn bicycle!"
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"shum" then went on in more detail:
". . . [I]f you insist, I'll spill.
"Having repented my way up the authority chain for certain adolescent excesses in the back seat of a red Corvair, I ultimately landed in SLC for my final interview with a Twelvie [Gordon B. Hinckley].
"Like the Bishop's Inquest times Twelve, you could say.
"As the grilling proceeded, it came to his attention that there had been more recent indiscretions with a few of the Lord's little lambs at BYU. At that I saw his face turn red as he exploded with:
"'Why do these stake presidents keep sending up all these un-worthies?'
"I began sobbing like a kid at that point.
"He made it clear I was in no way worthy to go today but he said it would depend on if I would clean up my life and come back in a year and he would reconsider.
"A whole year? Yeah, right.
"Then, in one parting act of codgerly compassion, he showed me to a side door that allowed an exit without having to face all the young ladies at the front entry in my distraught condition. Heart of gold I tell ya.
"It was freezing cold and blowing sleet as I stepped outside that bleak November day. Oh the pain. The shame.
"But what a blessing it's been to me that I went with the truth instead of lying through all those interviews. I mean God woulda known anyway so what's the point of serving a mission?
"Oh now I remember it's to make Mom happy.
"Cheers. :o)"
(see "shum's" original postings per the above at:
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1126990,1127106#msg-1127106; and
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1126990,1127166#msg-1127166)
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Thanks, "shum."
Another "I-Was-There-With-a-Twelve-Apostle Square" Moment.
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2014 11:55PM by steve benson.