Posted by:
Humberto
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Date: May 24, 2016 12:12AM
Well, they weren't companions, and I can't confirm any sex, but my ZL (and former AP) had a little thing going on with one of the sisters.
The rumors had already been well circulated before I arrived in the town of Kitchener. Rumours of the two of them being seen alone together around town. Rumors of their companions being in on it.
In the town, there was an old widowed woman in the ward who was affectionately referred to as "mom". She had split her house in two. She lived in one half, and missionaries lived in the other. There were 2 missionary apartments, with the English guys downstairs and my companion and me, spanish speakers, upstairs. We had a balcony.
One day, my companion, Elder McNair was sitting on the balcony when Sister Paul came walking up with a bundle in her arms. McNair shouted a greeting, Sister Paul responded in kind, and added "I'm bringing a pair of Elder Deeble's pants to Mom's to fix the hem."
"Oh, Elder Deeble's pants, huh?" Elder McNair replied, with a mocking tone.
Well, this one comment alone was enough to send Sister Paul running to Elder Deeble, who in turn decided to preemptively strike by going straight to the president and complaining that a certain group of elders was spreading vicious and untrue rumors about him and the sister missionary.
When the next zone conference rolled around, the four of us who were living at "mom's" house were called in, one by one, to get lectured by the president about avoiding the spirit of contention, bearing false witness, etcetera, etcetera. After getting sternly rebuked, the president says to me, "Now Elder Humberto, if there is something really going on here, you can tell me, but otherwise I'm going to rely on you as the newest transfer into the area to put a stop to the ill-speaking."
By this point in our conversation I just wanted to get out of there and I figured that the president was going to side with his trusted ZL and former AP no matter what I said, so I simply replied "You can count on me, pres.!", and that was that.
So it was a well played move by Elder Deeble, at least until, if the rumors are true, Sister Paul's companion let her guilt get the best of her, and reported the whole thing, and Elder Deeble and Sister Paul spent the rest of their missions in areas very far apart from one another.