Episode #37: Movie Heretic Reminds Me of Freaky Missionary Experiences
I had some freaky, scary missionary experiences. Maybe some were just odd. But it shows you how much of an adventure, maybe a nightmarish one at times, that being an LDS missionary can be. I wouldn't trade these weird memories for anything.
I thought some fellow former missionaries might enjoy the trip down memory lane. We all had weird missionary experiences, and here are a few of mine!
I enjoyed the episode. I hope to serve a mission one day with my soulmate, but that’s a few years away.
Speaking of bikers and missionaries, I once heard a remarkable story about a member of Hell’s Angels who grew up Mormon in Idaho but left home to live a life of wickedness in California. Miraculously, the biker’s younger brother was called to serve a mission in California and somehow tracted into him and brought him back to the faith. I understand that the biker is now a volunteer for the Interpreter Foundation and played a member of the “mob” in Six Days in August.
Anyway, did you try to determine after your mission if the biker was really a murderer?
“But if you are told by your leader to do a thing, do it. None of your business whether it is right or wrong.” Heber C. Kimball, 8 Nov. 1857
I enjoyed the episode. I hope to serve a mission one day with my soulmate, but that’s a few years away.
Speaking of bikers and missionaries, I once heard a remarkable story about a member of Hell’s Angels who grew up Mormon in Idaho but left home to live a life of wickedness in California. Miraculously, the biker’s younger brother was called to serve a mission in California and somehow tracted into him and brought him back to the faith. I understand that the biker is now a volunteer for the Interpreter Foundation and played a member of the “mob” in Six Days in August.
Anyway, did you try to determine after your mission if the biker was really a murderer?
Thanks for watching, Tom! That’s a great biker story. I have another biker story from my mission that I may share someday on CWK.
I have not been able to determine whether this man was really a murderer. I am skeptical, but I just relayed the claim the missionaries made to me. As of yet, I have not found a crime matching that description. Plenty of murders in that town in the early ‘90s, but not the one described to me.
I enjoyed the episode, too, Reverend. And, for what it’s worth, I have especially been enjoying the music leading into the more recent episodes.
"If, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
I enjoyed the episode. I hope to serve a mission one day with my soulmate, but that’s a few years away.
Speaking of bikers and missionaries, I once heard a remarkable story about a member of Hell’s Angels who grew up Mormon in Idaho but left home to live a life of wickedness in California. Miraculously, the biker’s younger brother was called to serve a mission in California and somehow tracted into him and brought him back to the faith. I understand that the biker is now a volunteer for the Interpreter Foundation and played a member of the “mob” in Six Days in August.
Anyway, did you try to determine after your mission if the biker was really a murderer?
Thanks for watching, Tom! That’s a great biker story. I have another biker story from my mission that I may share someday on CWK.
I have not been able to determine whether this man was really a murderer. I am skeptical, but I just relayed the claim the missionaries made to me. As of yet, I have not found a crime matching that description. Plenty of murders in that town in the early ‘90s, but not the one described to me.
Mea culpa: my soulmate just pointed out that the story I summarized above was related by Elder Holland some years ago. Elder Holland retracted it after learning it was inaccurate. Oh well. I hope the repentant biker had a role in Six Days at least.
If I have time, I’ll check California’s death row for anyone with a matching crime.
“But if you are told by your leader to do a thing, do it. None of your business whether it is right or wrong.” Heber C. Kimball, 8 Nov. 1857
Kish, I recently enjoyed Rebecca Biblioteca and Landon retelling a story of a firey airplane in a death spiral landing in a farmer's field in Delta, Utah. It may not have had all the drama of RFM telling it, but good tall tales can be enjoyable.
I enjoyed the episode. I hope to serve a mission one day with my soulmate, but that’s a few years away.
Speaking of bikers and missionaries, I once heard a remarkable story about a member of Hell’s Angels who grew up Mormon in Idaho but left home to live a life of wickedness in California. Miraculously, the biker’s younger brother was called to serve a mission in California and somehow tracted into him and brought him back to the faith. I understand that the biker is now a volunteer for the Interpreter Foundation and played a member of the “mob” in Six Days in August.
Anyway, did you try to determine after your mission if the biker was really a murderer?
When has Holland ever been known to stretch the truth?
I’m sure some crazy things happen while on a mission. I forget what book I was reading, but it was written by a guy whose LDS mission was in a South American country. Several of the things he talked about reminded me so much of many things our daughter told us about while on her non-LDS mission in Paraguay.
I am so very thankful for the missionaries the Lord sent to me back in 2002-2004. It made a huge impact in my life. I hope their lives were impacted for good as well. I’d like to hear about it from their perspective, but I suspect that will ever happen. One of the last things Elder K, the one I had contact with for most of the two years, told me was that God would hold me accountable for not joining the church. My reply was, “I know.” Loved my missionaries. I hope they know they were and still are loved.
"Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy” Jude 1:24
“the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 ESV
Kish, I recently enjoyed Rebecca Biblioteca and Landon retelling a story of a firey airplane in a death spiral landing in a farmer's field in Delta, Utah. It may not have had all the drama of RFM telling it, but good tall tales can be enjoyable.
