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Since the blessed season of Halloween is upon us let's share are scariest LDS memory/memories.

I think number 1 for me is when I went through the temple for the first time and some old guy was touching very close to my private parts.

Going into the bishops office and him asking me if I masturbate.

Standing for the first time in the prayer circle at the temple. That was freaky...

Just about been caught for looking at playboy on my parents computer (kind of LDS related).

Going on a mission.

Having dreams that I am still on a mission.

These are seriously things that scared me at the time.
Here are a list of things that scared me when I went inactive. I still so use to being TBM the following things I tried scared me because I was taught to stay away from them.

My first drink.

Buying underwear hoping no church member would see me.

Having sex outside of marriage.

Telling my family and friends I don't believe.

Having to make new friends.

Changing the way I have lived all of my life.

Shopping on Sundays.

Having the mindset that there is no God that answers prayers was kind of scray.

So what are your LDS scary momories?

My first visit to the temple (outside of going for baptisms).

The initiatory caused my mind to freeze. It literally went numb. I hadn't been prepared for that and I wasn't ready to accept that ritual as anything but cultish.

I sat in a complete state of shock in the Chapel waiting to be called for the endowment session. When the time came I moved like a zombie, my brain was still frozen. As I exited the Chapel I bumped into a man who had just been through an endowment still dressed in full regalia. The first time I had seen it. My frozen brain vaporised.

The rest was the most cultish thing I've ever done.
It felt like something out of a movie about devil worship.

Seeing the mummies on Temple Square.

I had to work myself up through several visits to the old historical museum until I could go into the mummy room.

Blixa wrote:Seeing the mummies on Temple Square.

I had to work myself up through several visits to the old historical museum until I could go into the mummy room.

What? There is a mummy room?

Blixa wrote:Seeing the mummies on Temple Square.

I had to work myself up through several visits to the old historical museum until I could go into the mummy room.

Seriously?! That sounds awesome! Please explain in more detail.

Blixa wrote:Seeing the mummies on Temple Square.

I had to work myself up through several visits to the old historical museum until I could go into the mummy room.

I first saw those mummies as a nine year old boy, so naturally I thought they were the neatest thing about Temple Square.

The scariest thing for me was the year I came back to the Church and being told the Bishop could see me in about 45 minutes for a tithing settlement. I had no idea what that was even about. When I saw the fellow right before me holding a big stack of bills and IRS stuff, I felt scared. I wasn't ready to be audited and certainly was not up for a cavity search.

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moksha wrote:
I first saw those mummies as a nine year old boy, so naturally I thought they were the neatest thing about Temple Square.

The scariest thing for me was the year I came back to the Church and being told the Bishop could see me in about 45 minutes for a tithing settlement. I had no idea what that was even about. When I saw the fellow right before me holding a big stack of bills and IRS stuff, I felt scared. I wasn't ready to be audited and certainly was not up for a cavity search.

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I am going to plead complete ignorance on the mummy issue. Were there really mummies on Temple Square? Were these associated with the Book of Abraham? Please, tell me more.

Everybody Wang Chung wrote:
I am going to plead complete ignorance on the mummy issue. Were there really mummies on Temple Square? Were these associated with the Book of Abraham? Please, tell me more.

I think they were Anasazi Indian mummies unearthed in Southern Utah.

moksha wrote:

Blixa wrote:Seeing the mummies on Temple Square.

I had to work myself up through several visits to the old historical museum until I could go into the mummy room.

I first saw those mummies as a nine year old boy, so naturally I thought they were the neatest thing about Temple Square.

That is about the age I finally screwed up enough courage to see them, too, Moksha.

The old Temple Square museum (and by old, I'm talking what was there in the 60's) had some Indian mummies on display. I heard about them from my parents probably and became really obsessed with them.

Because I was born in North Africa (Libya, as it happens), I was interested in mummies. My parents had visited museums in Egypt and were interested in Middle Eastern/North African culture in general. There were museum catalogs and pamphlets in our house and my father had even set some reproductions of Egyptian hieroglyphics in the stonework of our family house which he designed and built. When I heard there were mummies on Temple Square I imagined them in the guise of pop culture "Egyptian Mummies." I wanted to see them, yet I was scared of them (this is pretty much how I responded to the Spook House at Lagoon, by the way, something else that took me years to be able to enter with open eyes).

Of course, they were "Indian" mummies; the result of the dry conditions they were buried in rather than the end product of burial practices. The museum was part Mormon history/part Utah history: a curatorial hodge podge. When I finally went in the room with the mummy displays, I was kind of disappointed. They weren't wrapped in gauze strips. There was, If I recall correctly, maybe three complete mummies and a couple of heads. The mummies, including the mummy of a child, looked they were made of paper-mache, they didn't look "real." One of the heads was just a skull--I remember it being kind of yellow.

It was a big deal to me that I finally looked at them. But they were kind of a let down.

I don't know when, but I think they were eventually returned to local Native Americans. I'm not sure where they ended up. I've heard that there is a kind of crypt under/in the base of the This Is The Place Monument where such things are respectfully laid to rest: historical remains that don't really have any other "home." Whether these mummies are there, I don't really know. I do know there is very little online about them because I've looked. I've been meaning to write something about them for several years...

Rambo wrote:Since the blessed season of Halloween is upon us let's share are scariest LDS memory/memories. . . .
So what are your LDS scary momories?

I think that my scariest LDS memory must be when a group of young men from my LDS boy scout troop/deacon's quorum grabbed me and dragged me out of the church building during a Stake-wide scout meeting, ostensibly to beat the crap out of me on the lawn, because they thought that I was a homosexual (I am not, by the way).

I escaped, though.