Mormon Fakebook Update: 15

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O'Q

– November 5, 2010Posted in: D&S 2, Mormon Fakebook

Tags: fakebook, humor

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1. Matt

   Posted November 5, 2010 at 6:03 PM

   In case anyone is scratching their head, as I was … do a search of “Provo River” on LDS.org and you’ll find a disproportionate number of results for Thomas S. Monson. Search the web for “Thomas Monson Provo River” and you’ll find results like the following from the Church News:

   The Church leader said he enjoyed the sort of childhood experienced by Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He spoke of the fun and adventures realized while vacationing at the family cabin in Provo Canyon. There he swam in the Provo River and learned lessons that would remain with him for a lifetime. On one occasion, young Tom Monson – who was about 12 or 14 at the time – was floating down the river in a large inner tube. Suddenly, he heard voices of panic as he was approaching a deep and potentially treacherous swimming hole. “Save her, save her!” screamed several people huddled along the side of the river.

   The people belonged to a large group of Greeks who had been enjoying an outing near the river. A teenage girl from their party had been wading in a shallow segment of the river and had unknowingly stepped into the 18-foot deep swimming hole. She, like those who called from the riverside, did not know how to swim.

   President Monson said as he was floating through the rapids a head bobbed up in front of him. It was the drowning girl. He snatched the girl by the hair, pulled her up across the inner tube, maneuvered across the whirling water and delivered the gasping, crying girl safely to the shore. The girl’s grateful relatives and friends – both women and men – began kissing her rescuer. The embarrassed young Tom made a quick exit.

   President Monson said he initially did not think much of that unexpected yet fortunate encounter with the girl. “But later in life, I began to think: no fishermen, no swimmers, no help for a drowning girl but a little boy floating on a tube. It wasn’t a coincidence that the little boy knew how to swim and that he arrived just before a girl was going down for the third time.”

   He added, “I know of very few coincidences in my life. I thank God for His guiding influence and I recognize and acknowledge Him.”

   It’s apparently a favorite story. Right up there with widow stories.

2. Nildeea

   Posted November 5, 2010 at 8:53 PM

   A better ending would have been Monson avoiding temptation by deciding not to touch the girl, then commenting how morality is more important than life itself.

   • Matt

     Posted November 6, 2010 at 6:12 AM

     Let’s just say it would jive more with old-school Mormon thought.

3. claire

   Posted November 8, 2010 at 6:03 PM

   Am I the only one who pictured a bunch of sorority and/or fraternity members when reading the second paragraph? Must be my college-town upbringing.

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