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

[Jeff Lebowski]

Lol. Ute Ute fans LOVE that quote.

[Donuthole]

You would have loved William R Bradford. Put that man in a gym with 100 missionaries and a chalk board and you know that over the next two hours 1. He will be all over the place (both physically and metaphorically), and 2. You will be seeing some weird stuff.

Bradford was the area authority over my mission. What a freaking weirdo. I recognized that as a 19 year old.

[grapevine]

Gene R. Cook passed away last fall. Was called as member of first council of Seventy at 34. Seventies weren’t High Priests a long time. A few were called as mission presidents to get some leadership experience ie Bruce R. Mcconkie. Cook wrote several books on faith and family. Pretty good I think for the most part. But they couldn’t ordain Stake Presidents until being ordained High Priests.

i never had Cook tour mission , some that did told of how baptisms went up after listening to him. More faith. Did they stay active. Some didn’t like his style though. Were they rebels? On cb sometime back someone said David B. Haight told him to get rid of camera because he spoke at missionaries funeral that drowned in Canary Islands than another poster mentioned rules missionaries broke on way to death with cars and sisters and being dumb standing on rocks. Fireball that way.

For Bradford story I heard was son in law who later became ga himself said they were in Salt Lake at restaurant and he said spirit not strong need to get out. Pizza place I think. Bradford were in Chile as mission presidents when my grandparents were down there as missionaries. Right at the time he became a General Authority. Heard he said dammit to Hell to his daughter when he asked her three times to get something at dinner as well.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I hope the memorial service for Elder Cook includes "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as an homage to his flying companion.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I hope the memorial service for Elder Cook includes "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as an homage to his flying companion.

Haha. Yes.

[Bo Diddley]

I hope the memorial service for Elder Cook includes "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as an homage to his flying companion.

But if you try sometimes you just might find...you get what you need!

[Green Monstah]

I mean, that story is pretty clearly BS, right? There’s some froggy looking English dude who flee coach in the late 70s who still tells the story about the Mormon guy who mistook him for mick jagger, right?

[Moliere]

I think it was Gene R. Cook that visited my mission back in 97 or 98. He did a meeting that took around four hours and frankly, I loved it. I probably have notes from it somewhere in my pile of mission stuff.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I mean, that story is pretty clearly BS, right? There’s some froggy looking English dude who flee coach in the late 70s who still tells the story about the Mormon guy who mistook him for mick jagger, right?

Lol. Probably.

[YOhio]

This is cool.

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[wally]

This is blowing up on Zoomer social media:

https://salembusinessjournal.org/202...rs-collection/

https://www.brickfanatics.com/bricks...t-lego-dispute

https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/l...spute-2876907/


Basically, Bricks and Minifigs, a LEGO resale franchisor, owned by a BYU grad and headquartered in Utah County, Valued at probably $60-100 M, is facing massive social media backlash for 'stealing' some family heirloom lego star wars collection that they keep valuing at ~$200,000. A YouTube channel with the handle "reckless Ben" has made some very entertaining, however sketchy legally, videos that hare getting reposted everywhere. My Zoomer son who loves collecting legos looped me into this one. Fair or not, the online critics are making Bricks and Minifigs owners look really sketchy. I will admit I am finding this very entertaining. WAY better than secret lives of mormon wives.

[Shaka]

This is blowing up on Zoomer social media:

https://salembusinessjournal.org/202...rs-collection/

https://www.brickfanatics.com/bricks...t-lego-dispute

https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/l...spute-2876907/


Basically, Bricks and Minifigs, a LEGO resale franchisor, owned by a BYU grad and headquartered in Utah County, Valued at probably $60-100 M, is facing massive social media backlash for 'stealing' some family heirloom lego star wars collection that they keep valuing at ~$200,000. A YouTube channel with the handle "reckless Ben" has made some very entertaining, however sketchy legally, videos that hare getting reposted everywhere. My Zoomer son who loves collecting legos looped me into this one. Fair or not, the online critics are making Bricks and Minifigs owners look really sketchy. I will admit I am finding this very entertaining. WAY better than secret lives of mormon wives.

I've been following along. It's a wild story. The owners would have been smart just to pay the guy out if they lost is stuff if only to avoid all the negative publicity. Most of my outrage is reserved for the AFPD.

[MartyFunkhouser]

I mean, that story is pretty clearly BS, right? There’s some froggy looking English dude who flee coach in the late 70s who still tells the story about the Mormon guy who mistook him for mick jagger, right?

I really hope that is what happened and it wasn't just 100% made up.

[Jeff Lebowski]

This is blowing up on Zoomer social media:

https://salembusinessjournal.org/202...rs-collection/

https://www.brickfanatics.com/bricks...t-lego-dispute

https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/l...spute-2876907/


Basically, Bricks and Minifigs, a LEGO resale franchisor, owned by a BYU grad and headquartered in Utah County, Valued at probably $60-100 M, is facing massive social media backlash for 'stealing' some family heirloom lego star wars collection that they keep valuing at ~$200,000. A YouTube channel with the handle "reckless Ben" has made some very entertaining, however sketchy legally, videos that hare getting reposted everywhere. My Zoomer son who loves collecting legos looped me into this one. Fair or not, the online critics are making Bricks and Minifigs owners look really sketchy. I will admit I am finding this very entertaining. WAY better than secret lives of mormon wives.

Boo. Very shady.

[Green Monstah]

I've been following along. It's a wild story. The owners would have been smart just to pay the guy out if they lost is stuff if only to avoid all the negative publicity. Most of my outrage is reserved for the AFPD.

And Reckless Ben goes to Mexico to avoid the no-bail warrant!

I could be wrong, but unless he followed these guys around for days (and he may have), I'm not sure I get the stalking charge.

But the "Mormon Mafia" conspiracy theories are hilarious.