Posted by:
Mr. Happy
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Date: May 26, 2011 04:15AM
Early morning seminary SUCKED. My father was the Bishop so I had to go every morning. I think I missed three times in four years. I hated every second of it. I was so tired during school that I would sleep through my classes after eating lunch. I'd just walk into my school classroom, put my head on the desk, and fall asleep. I'm sure my teachers thought I was getting stoned every day during lunch.
I had a seminary teacher who used to like to tell tall "faith promoting" tales. One morning he was telling us that as a youth, he once literally, physically, wrestled with a demon the entire night one evening. I asked "When you woke up in the morning, who won...you or the pillow?" He said, "No, I wasn't wrestling with my pillow. It was a devil, all night long, until I became so exhausted that I raised my arm to the square and commanded him to depart by the power of the priesthood". I followed up with, "If you could have gotten rid of the "demon" by raising your arm to the square, why didn't you just do that right off the bat and save yourself a whole night of getting your ass kicked?" Haaaa haaaa, he kicked me out of class after that one.
We too were subjected to the great Tom Trails filmstrip series. Mainly we voiced over the filmstrip with our own comments like it was Mystery Science Theatre. The whole class though did engage in LOUD LAUGHTER when Tom's girlfriend was killed in a car wreck. The sight of her hand hanging out of the window of the car sent us all over the edge. We played it over and over again. Here, check it out for yourself -
http://www.tomtrails.com/chapter15.htmSuch a waste of four years worth of early mornings.