Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the News

[LVAllen]

Porn. It's always the porn.

Unless he produced, directed, or starred in it, unlikely.

[clackamascoug]

With the well groomed hair, styled ever just so... I'm betting that a woman is not involved.

[Donuthole]

Pretty sure this guy was my Bishop in Mesa, AZ when I was a kid.

[LVAllen]

Pretty sure this guy was my Bishop in Mesa, AZ when I was a kid.

Were the guys in your ward asked to work for a General Contractor from 3-6 am to help build meetinghouses?

He explained in an interview with the Church News. Shortly after his call to be a bishop, his growing stake, which only had one meetinghouse, planned to build three more.
In that era, he said, members were expected to donate money for their new buildings. His stake president realized that would be asking the members for a lot of money and instead worked out a sub-contracting arrangement with the general contractor so that members' labor could be their contribution.
Elder Hamula said he asked the stake president, "When are we going to do that." He and the other members had families, jobs and Church callings already demanding their time.
Elder Hamula recalled that the stake president answered with a question: "What are you doing at 3 o'clock in the morning?"
"So for two years, much of my work as a bishop was spent getting the priesthood organized to go to the Church building sites at 3 in the morning. We would work from 3 to 6."
After about a year, he said some members of the ward council decided it would be better to pay the money.
"So I went to the stake president and said, 'Our ward has been talking. We think we can come up with the money.' The president looked at me across his table and said, 'Bishop, the Lord doesn't need your money, he needs your time.'
"I learned a very important lesson at that moment: I had consecrated to give my time and my all to the work of the Church; that was more important than writing a check. I also learned at that moment which way I should be facing as a leader. It was my job to face the people and tell them what the Lord wanted, not to face the other way, with the people behind me, telling the leaders ahead of me what the people wanted."

http://www.gapages.com/hamuljj1.htm

[Donuthole]

Were the guys in your ward asked to work for a General Contractor from 3-6 am to help build meetinghouses?



http://www.gapages.com/hamuljj1.htm

Yep. I remember doing that a few times with my dad.

[Green Monstah]

There's some speculation that maybe this is Grant Palmer's GA. I don't think that's the case for several reasons, not the least of which is this guy very likely was stationed in NZ during the specific dates given by GP (although their first two meetings with GP were around the time of GC, roughly) .

[SteelBlue]

I keep thinking I know this guy from somewhere. It finally dawned on me that he played the Warden in Shawshank Redemption. Mystery solved.

[Sullyute]

Were the guys in your ward asked to work for a General Contractor from 3-6 am to help build meetinghouses?



http://www.gapages.com/hamuljj1.htm

That last line tells me all that I need to know about his leadership. He is a Packer disciple.

[RC Vikings]

He was the mission president for a guy in our office for about a month. Said that two of the three mission presidents he had have now been ex'ed. That's gotta be pretty close to a record.

[Jeff Lebowski]

There's some speculation that maybe this is Grant Palmer's GA. I don't think that's the case for several reasons, not the least of which is this guy very likely was stationed in NZ during the specific dates given by GP (although their first two meetings with GP were around the time of GC, roughly) .

That's funny. Must be pandemonium today on Reddit and in the Dehlin ranks.

[Northwestcoug]

There's some speculation that maybe this is Grant Palmer's GA. I don't think that's the case for several reasons, not the least of which is this guy very likely was stationed in NZ during the specific dates given by GP (although their first two meetings with GP were around the time of GC, roughly) .

So since the church explicitly said his excommunication wasn't for apostasy, it must be that Clack is right. He was Grant Palmer's lover!

[Donuthole]

That last line tells me all that I need to know about his leadership. He is a Packer disciple.

That's funny. The Stake President quoted in that column was very much a Packer disciple. I know this because he ended up being my first mission president. He was an ex-military guy who had a 50 page addendum to the White Bible, completely full of extra rules. Not surprisingly, he loooooved to quote BKP.

[old_gregg]

Were the guys in your ward asked to work for a General Contractor from 3-6 am to help build meetinghouses?



http://www.gapages.com/hamuljj1.htm

jfc

[wally]

That's funny. Must be pandemonium today on Reddit and in the Dehlin ranks.

I went over to reddit a couple times when people I knew were living on the exmo pages over there, just to see what it was all about. The thing that has me going back to reddit though are the gifs of people injuring themselves doing stupid stuff. I just love that crap, man.

[cougjunkie]

He looks like SocalCoug. Poor guy.


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