Posted on 09/16/2009 1:12:59 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
A few days after I watched the Mormons gorging themselves on a giant cheeseburger, Elder Cooper told me that he was being split up from his companion Elder Glover, and being moved to a different area. He was pretty annoyed about it, and told us that he would break protocol by not telling the new missionaries moving in to the area about us, and keeping contact himself.
After this, I had no contact with any Mormons for a few weeks before I finally received a call and then a visit from the new missionaries to the area. I had called the mission office a number of times trying to get in contact with Elder Cooper to no avail.
Today I made another call to the mission office, demanding that the Sister help me get in contact with Elder Cooper, she promised that she would get the “situation resolved”. A few minutes later I got a call from Elder Cooper.
Elder Cooper apologised for not being in contact with me, and told me that he had been “punished” for calling people outside his area and forced to pay the phone bill himself, rather than the mission paying for it. Elder Cooper said that he had been told specifically not to contact me, and it was only because I had been so adamant that I would only speak to Elder Cooper that they had given him permission to call me.
Elder Cooper then told me that he had been fired as district leader and moved to a different area as a direct result of the giant burger. Apparently President Maurer had decided that the meeting which went until about 8pm on a Tuesday evening was a breach of the rules, and spending their precious mission money on a tower of meat was inappropriate. In fact, the entire mission was disbanded as a result of the burger, and new missionaries were brought in from other areas.
I had known for a while that Elder Cooper was a little bit crazy. A few months ago he told me the story of what happened when he got a little fed up with being stuck in a remote mission area out in Port Hedland. I can’t imagine it being the nicest place to go out preaching, and it clearly got to Elder Cooper; he took his mission car and drove six-hundred kilometers to Broome to go sight-seeing and visit some other missionaries.
Elder Cooper then told me that he had been fired as district leader and moved to a different area as a direct result of the giant burger. Apparently President Maurer had decided that the meeting which went until about 8pm on a Tuesday evening was a breach of the rules, and spending their precious mission money on a tower of meat was inappropriate. In fact, the entire mission was disbanded as a result of the burger, and new missionaries were brought in from other areas.
Ping
But....
Elder Cooper bought that hamburger to feed him and his 6 wives.
It was justifiable, see?
So a bunch of young men hanging out building relationships with their mentor is a violation of rules - I find that weird.
Where’s the beef? (Oh, there it is!)
But they were hungry
Well, that is a ‘WHOPPER’ of a story.
The real problem wasn’t the burger. It’s in the the top right hand corner of the photo...but the mission president didn’t want to sound like a prude fuddy duddy.
“Sir, I’d like to order your mega-burger. And can I get about 30 extra buns on the side? Thanks.”
Where I grew up, we were called "whiskeypalians"! Southern Baptists are predominant. When elected Deacon in a Baptist Church, I was treated to beer and "poor man's stew*" for our first meeting.
*... everything from the freezer and most of it game products, even snake and squirrel... just add carrots, celery, onions, and rice!
I was wondering how long it would take until someone pointed that out. So proximity to a advertisement featuring a cleavage-showing model was the real problem here? Are you sure the real real problem wasn't proximity to all those caffeinated beverages in the cooler right below the ad?
Notice the picture above the soda cooler?
Give a boy a double bacon cheeseburger, and he’s tainted for life.
Well, the Mission President in charge must have quickly written out "Commandment #168": "Thou shalt not covet thy whole side or slab of beef"
(For the other 167 true commandments imposed upon Lds missionaries, see: The167CommandmentsGiventoLdsMissionaries [see post #21])
I can't even imagine a parent imposting most of these as "written rules" for their pre-teens and teens, let alone treating adults like this. (Expectations, of course, but written rules?)
Notice the caffeinated soda in the cooler below the picture?
The Mormons helped elect this girl on SYTYCD... Lacey Schwimmer! I saw some quite provocative stuff!
I kant haz cheezberger?
Not guilty!
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