Craziest mission stories.

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by cougjunkie

I believe a Nik Sonntag played for BYU.

sonntag played for oregon state than dixie than the U. before injuries cut his career short

[minn_stat]

Originally Posted by JohnnyLingo

My mother was called to Indonesia initially, but while she was in the MTC they booted the missionaries out. She ended up going to the Philippines and Thailand helping out in refugee camps. She prepared people heading to the United States as war refugees for life in America.

I was called to Indonesia in the summer of 1980. They called 14 of us, believing that David Kennedy, ambassador at large for the church and former bigwig in international banking, could make arrangements to get us in on "tourist" visas (the 6 week ones microlex refers to). We spent almost 3 months in the MTC waiting for visas. This coincided with the Iranian hostage crisis, and TV had taken to carrying captions indicating "Crisis Day xxx". So us missionaries followed suit after a while, putting posters over our windows indicating how long we had been in "captivity" in the MTC. They made us take them down, so we took the ceiling tiles down and wrote our "journal" of the crisis on the back of the ceiling tiles. They've probably been replaced by now, but who knows, maybe our legacy still exists...

They eventually decided to send us to California to do something useful while waiting for visas. By early spring, Salt Lake decided we weren't ever going to get visas, so they sent us to the Philippines, I guess because the missionaries taught in English in the Philippines at that time, and the Philippines is about as hot, poor, and dirty as Indonesia, so we'd be fooled into thinking our prayers and fasting had been answered...

Shortly after arriving in the Philippines, Salt Lake announced the 18 month mission thing, and gave current missionaries who arrived in the MTC by the end of July the choice of whether to serve 18 or 24 months. Those who arrived later had no choice - 18 months was their lot. We arrived August 6th. So I spent 3 months in the MTC, 4 months in California, and 11 months in the Philippines.

[cougjunkie]

Originally Posted by Mastershake

sonntag played for oregon state than dixie than the U. before injuries cut his career short

Thats right he was the kid that traveled around with Danny Southwick.

[fusnik11]

Steel you served in Belgium?

Me and the wife spent time in Beligum, spent two days in Brugge, spent a day in Brussells. Bought $300 of Dumont Chocolate. Ate fries with 'special sauce' which turned out to be mayonaise. Ate the best Pizza Hut pizza in my life.