As some of you may remember, about this time a couple of years ago, I started corresponding with a General Authority who had stumbled across my blog and, as he said, found a kindred spirit. I thought you might find his latest email interesting:
John,
Sorry I haven't been in touch lately but things are busy as you know. Between conferences and training seminars I never seem to have any time to myself but I can't complain. my wife has stuck with me all this time and that makes me happy.
but I think things are about to change in a big way. I just got a call from the secretary to the first presidency saying that pres Monson wants to speak with me about a new assignment and to bring my wife with me.
I have this horrible feeling that its going to be a calling to the quorum of twelve. Since the call I'm paralyzed because I don't know what to do about it. how do I pretend to be a "special witness" when I don't really believe in the first place. Maybe it comes back to what I've always told you - I believe the church can do a lot of good in the world and I have tried to be part of that and doing the good also requires toeing the party line re Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and all that. I think it's worth the sacrifice though you probably disagree.
I'll keep you posted on what happens. Thanks for being a friend and not judging me.
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It's difficult to know what to make of this. Is this legit, or is this, like the email a couple of years ago, just an April Fool's joke?
Email from my GA friend
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_Runtu
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_Dr. Shades
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It sounds like an April Fool's joke, since there aren't any vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve (right?).
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
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_Jason Bourne
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Dr. Shades wrote:It sounds like an April Fool's joke, since there aren't any vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve (right?).
Wrong
Elder Wirthlin died last December of January.
But I do think it is a joke.
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Re: Email from my GA friend
If it was received today it's definitely an April Fool's joke.
You can’t trust adults to tell you the truth.
Scream the lie, whisper the retraction.- The Left
Scream the lie, whisper the retraction.- The Left
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If it's not an April Fool's joke, you'll know this weekend.
Maybe if he gets the call, he can make some much-needed changes. Like opening the financials.
Maybe if he gets the call, he can make some much-needed changes. Like opening the financials.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
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I suspect that this is an April Fool's joke by Runtu - surely, if he believed that this really came from a GA he would never post it on the Board? Reason: there cannot be many GA's being summoned by Monson in this way and at this time, and it would therefore be easy to identify the person in question.
(I intend no offence to Runtu by saying this - it just seems to me a likely interpretation of the situation, and if Runtu says differently I shall of course believe him).
(I intend no offence to Runtu by saying this - it just seems to me a likely interpretation of the situation, and if Runtu says differently I shall of course believe him).
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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_Runtu
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Far be it from me to perpetrate an April Fool's joke. 
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_harmony
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Hope springs eternal in the mind of the optimist.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
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I think Runtu is channeling the mind of someone (OK, a white LDS older male with a family member related to one of the twelve who is either a CEO or lawyer), soon to get a new calling.
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Runtu is just playing an April Fool's joke on us.
The likelihood of a GA e-mailing anyone and saying, "how do I pretend to be a 'special witness' when I don't really believe in the first place" is statistically zero.
The likelihood of a GA e-mailing anyone and saying, "how do I pretend to be a 'special witness' when I don't really believe in the first place" is statistically zero.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
--Louis Midgley
--Louis Midgley