We are getting a new bishop Sunday

[LA Ute]

Major upset in our ward Sunday. The new bishop is a non-RM who graduated from BSU and teaches high school history. From a ward with 30 to 40 BYU-I professors in the ward this was a major shocker. For what it's worth this a good guy that will do a very good job.

I love stories like this. Our current stake president had never been a bishop, had been the stake YM president for about 10 years, and was doing a stint on the high council when he was called. He's also in his early 60s. There were audible gasps -- some near-screams -- throughout the stake center chapel when then-Elder Uchtdorf announced his name. Good times.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

For reasons still unclear to me or my wife, my FIL didn't go on a mission and got married to my MIL when he was 18 or 19. My MIL is two years older than my FIL. They met at Ricks and didn't get married in the temple (and got sealed when my wife was 2 years old and her sister was 1).

Okay, so there's really nothing unclear about it- except to my wife who remains in blissful ignorance that I'm not going to disturb. Nevertheless, my FIL was a bishop and in the high counsel at a fairly young age.

Another related story. When my brother was around 13-14 years old he was looking at the genealogy records of our family and noticed that my grandparents got married seven months before my dad was born- and my dad wasn't premature. He then asks my dad about it and my dad just kind of laughs and said the facts are pretty obvious. The funniest thing about the story is my grandparents still initially got married in the temple and my dad was born in the covenant.

[marsupial]

For reasons still unclear to me or my wife, my FIL didn't go on a mission and got married to my MIL when he was 18 or 19. My MIL is two years older than my FIL. They met at Ricks and didn't get married in the temple (and got sealed when my wife was 2 years old and her sister was 1).

Okay, so there's really nothing unclear about it- except to my wife who remains in blissful ignorance that I'm not going to disturb. Nevertheless, my FIL was a bishop and in the high counsel at a fairly young age.

Another related story. When my brother was around 13-14 years old he was looking at the genealogy records of our family and noticed that my grandparents got married seven months before my dad was born- and my dad wasn't premature. He then asks my dad about it and my dad just kind of laughs and said the facts are pretty obvious. The funniest thing about the story is my grandparents still initially got married in the temple and my dad was born in the covenant.

My mom discovered that her parents hadn't really gotten married on the day they had claimed when she and her sisters were planning their 50th anniversary party and were writing the courthouse to get a copy of their wedding certificate to frame and put on the table. They still had the party on the day of their fake anniversary, even though they had really gotten married a month or two later when my grandma was a couple of months along with my mom.

A few years after the 50th wedding anniversary party, my grandparents got their act together and were sealed in the temple, but still maintained on the temple documents that they had gotten married on that phony day