Another Whopper Told in General Conference?

[consiglieri]

Elder Bragg in the Saturday morning session of conference told a story about some firefighters who were prompted by the Light of Christ while putting out a fire at a Southern California stake center in 2015.

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/ ... 1?lang=eng

The story begins at about the 8:00 minute mark.

Elder Bragg says that the stake center caught fire and the fire commander showed up and called to ask a Mormon friend where the "sacred relics" and sacrament cups were so they could be rescued. (laugh line)

The unnamed Mormon friend assured the unnamed Fire Commander that there were no sacred relics and that the sacrament cups were very, very replaceable.

Nevertheless, as the fire "raged," the commander felt he should do more.

So the fire commander sent his firefighters back into the burning building to pull every painting of Christ off of the walls so they might be preserved.

They even placed a picture of Christ in the fire truck in the hope that the firefighters might be watched over.

It seems hard to believe that a firefighter would actually send his firefighters into a burning building to retrieve artwork. And these aren't Picassos we're talking about, either!

But that is the story Elder Bragg told in General Conference.

I did a little google research and it appears from comparing the pictures shown in GC with the pictures in the news story that the stake center at issue was near a brush fire in Glassell Park where embers hit the roof and started a fire there, collapsing the roof and going into the attic.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/07/07/529 ... ollapsing/


It does not appear that any fire would have been "raging" or otherwise in the first floor of the stake center where firefighters went in to get art out. Indeed, in the pictures shown during general conference, it appears the fire was pretty well out by the time the firefighters are carrying out pictures.

I would expect the only potential damage to the pictures might have been water damage from the attic above.

Is this another whopper told during General Conference?

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

[consiglieri]

At one point, crews were pulled out from inside the building as a precaution and moments later the roof collapsed, LAFD Battalion Chief Phillip Fligiel said.

http://abc7.com/news/200-firefighters-b ... rk/834084/

I sure hope the two firefighters that were injured didn't suffer those injuries because their commander sent them back into the burning building to retrieve the pictures off the walls.

[consiglieri]

"But from the rubble, religious paintings were rescued."

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local ... 52731.html

At the 1.50 mark.

So it doesn't sound like the building was actually burning when the pictures were retrieved . . .

[Korihor]

The underlying message of this story - Don't let your special underwear touch the floor.

Just like mass production paintings, all this stuff is very sacred and must be treated as such.

[20/20hind]

OMH, this church just gets wackier each GC. Like that guy, what ever his name is, the one that stuck his foot in the door as a missionary.

If some religious preacher did that at my house, I would call the police and have him arrested for trespassing.

[Stig]

OMH, this church just gets wackier each GC. Like that guy, what ever his name is, the one that stuck his foot in the door as a missionary.

If some religious preacher did that at my house, I would call the police and have him arrested for trespassing.

Dude! You ARE the police!

[20/20hind]

OMH, this church just gets wackier each GC. Like that guy, what ever his name is, the one that stuck his foot in the door as a missionary.

If some religious preacher did that at my house, I would call the police and have him arrested for trespassing.

Dude! You ARE the police!

haha true, but I would still call them because I'm very protective of my home and the people in it. They would stop me from doing something I shouldn't

[Stig]

OMH, this church just gets wackier each GC. Like that guy, what ever his name is, the one that stuck his foot in the door as a missionary.

If some religious preacher did that at my house, I would call the police and have him arrested for trespassing.

Dude! You ARE the police!

haha true, but I would still call them because I'm very protective of my home and the people in it. They would stop me from doing something I shouldn't

Spoken like a true professional.

[Palerider]

OMH, this church just gets wackier each GC. Like that guy, what ever his name is, the one that stuck his foot in the door as a missionary.

If some religious preacher did that at my house, I would call the police and have him arrested for trespassing.

I was a little upset when he said that he'd done that. In my opinion that's truly a dishonorable act and really low class. But it goes to show that in this church the ends justify the means.

So if somebody has to lie about polygamy and has to cheat on their wife in order to obey the angel with the burning sword....it's worth it.

[achilles]

OMH, this church just gets wackier each GC. Like that guy, what ever his name is, the one that stuck his foot in the door as a missionary.

If some religious preacher did that at my house, I would call the police and have him arrested for trespassing.

I probably would have shanked his foot with my trusty shiv.

[MalcolmVillager]

OMH, this church just gets wackier each GC. Like that guy, what ever his name is, the one that stuck his foot in the door as a missionary.

If some religious preacher did that at my house, I would call the police and have him arrested for trespassing.

Haha, how many missionaries will be arrested for following the leader now?

The best part is how he starts the story telling us that he and his comp were inspired to visit a church headquarters referral. Yeah, I saw one of those in my 2 years. I wouldn't call that inspiration to follow but ecstasy that we got a corporate lead.

Then they end up teaching the 16 year old daughter. Haha, our MP would not have let us baptize a 16 yo girl, marry her maybe, but not teach .

Any missionary now has proof that they can stick feet in doors, ask about daughters, and teach them.