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The other day Olive was telling me how she was too afraid to drive in California traffic when she first got here and one day she needed to go to the store, but it was right during rush hour traffic (if 1950 traffic could be called "rush hour"). Anyways, she asked her husband to take her because she was afraid of getting into an accident. He threw her the keys and told her to go herself and that she'd be fine. Just before she left he added, "But don't take the dog."
Then today they had a special stake conference. Not entirely sure why they called a stake conference to tell ppl the focus is changing from "Proclaiming the Gospel" to "Gathering Israel", but I digress. Elder Trythall, a member of the Seventy, spoke and told a story of when he was the mission president of an Eastern European mission. Apparently, there were two teaching elders who brought two investigators to their district leaders to be interviewed for baptism. They left the investigators in the apartment and went somewhere else outside to give them privacy. (Something like that.) Anywhosits, the teaching elders noticed that the interview was taking a really long time and they were worried that something was wrong, so they go back upstairs to the apartment. Inside, they couldn't see the investigators and the district leaders told them they were outside on the balcony discussing marriage. The district leaders, in the course of their interview, had discovered that the man and woman weren't legally married and that in order to be baptized, they had to be legally married. After the district leaders finished chastizing the teaching elders, the teaching elders said, "Of course they aren't married. They've never met each other. They're from two different cities." Elder Trythall said the part he liked best about the story was that the two strangers were out on the balcony actually discussing marriage. He said, "So think, how great is your faith next time you get a hard assignment?"
Thought these were kinda funny and thought I'd share...