The Humor and Heart of LDS Lore

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— Kari 🍓🪔 (@kariwarburton) July 27, 2025

 An X thread kicked off by @kariwarburton is still buzzing after being started by the straightforward ask, “Share a piece of LDS lore about yourself.” It has pulled out a bunch of funny, moving, and wild stories from Latter-day Saints. These tales mix faith, personal experiences, and a bit of humor, and I think you’ll enjoy browsing these!

Here are the comments straight from the X users:

• I passed the sacrament to President Gordon B Hinckley.
• Of my 32 Great-Great-Great Grandparents, 27 of them joined the church while they were alive. Thus while many people have a single pioneer ancestry line, I have 27. Pretty wild.
• I once handed the Pope a Book of Mormon, he blessed it, and gave it back to me.
• Met my wife in the celestial room of the Oakland temple.
• I suggested a change to the endowment that ended up being incorporated.
• My ward is associated with three Apostles who show up for grand/great grand children’s blessings and baptisms. One presided/spoke last Sunday.
• I wrote a few stories for LDS mag 15 ish years ago? I got to interview Sherri Dew, Marvin Jensen, whoever was the YM general president back then , AND Elder Russell M. Nelson.
• I met Elder Tom Perry at a gas station in Salt Lake City. My wife had sung at some meeting he’d attended while she was on her mission in Germany. My wife approached him and said how much she had enjoyed the meeting she’d attended…they chatted for a few minutes before the conversation turned to me. Elder Perry asked if I spoke German. I grugingly said I knew enough to put together one sentence—anticipation hung in the air, so I offered up the sentence “Ein man auf ein tisch” which is to say a man on a table. He was unimpressed…I will never forget the German word for table.
• I drove Pres. Hinckley to a regional conference in 1998 and Elder Andersen to the Boston Temple dedication in 2000.
• I was interviewed on KSL about my experiences dry cleaning for President Monson.
• I was 18. Had zero intention of going on a mission. Actually, i didnt want to go. At all. Really against going. Raised in the church. So, since I was getting near 19, I figured I better find out. Went into my room, locked the door, and knelt down…..I said to Heavenly Father, “Pres Benson says every worthy male should serve a mission. So do I need to?” I was struck with an energy I can’t deny. It was absolutely, “YES!!! GO!!!” People might say, “thats what you really wanted.” No. No it wasn’t. At all. Instead of getting up with a full heart, grateful for an answered prayer, I got up and thought, “well, crap, now I HAVE TO go on a mission.” It sucked. But…. it was absolutely necessary for me to grow up. The main convert from my mission? Me. I KNEW God answered my prayers.
• I was Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin’s home teacher before I left on my mission. One lesson, while my companion was giving he and his wife the thought, Elder Wirthlin was just staring at me. He stopped the thought and asked where I’d like to serve, if I could choose. Like anyone else, I told him Australia. He told me not to be upset with the Lord if I didn’t get to go where I wanted, which I understood. I was eventually called to New Zealand, which was even better. I also invited him to say a few words at my farewell, which he graciously accepted. He was an amazing man.
• I got to ask Apostle Russell M Nelson a question at a mission conference.
• I was able to serve a part of my proselytizing mission in Nauvoo teaching local folks. In addition to having weekly district meetings in the upstairs martyrdom room in Carthage, Elder Maxwell came and visited us in 1986 and reverently, almost in a whisper, told our district (6 missionaries) that Joseph Smith had a personal hand in selecting missionaries in Nauvoo. I’ll never forget that and have been a student of the Prophet Joseph ever since.
• I got a MAJOR speeding ticket a week before I left for my mission. (Nearly double the limit on the freeway) I quietly mailed in the hefty fine and didn’t tell my parents till I was in France for 3 months. My dad howled at the moon for a full week because there was nothing he could do besides write a strongly worded letter.
• I met the First Presidency and several other Apostles at my grandfather’s funeral. At a retirement party for my grandpa on the other side of the family, I met 7 of the 12 Apostles.
• Kinda LDS lore, at least in my family…. Went to the Manti Pageant with my fiance and her kids. Knocked on the door of a home south of the temple to see if we could sit on the lawn because there was no where else. The guy at the door said that we could, specifically because we asked before starting to set-up. Nice guy. A month or so later, we go to the Manti Temple to get married for time (waiting on a sealing cancellation.) The sealer walks in. It’s the same guy. Fast forward a couple of months and we go back to Manti to get sealed. (this was 91-92 before they changed it to waiting 1 year even if you were married for time in the Temple.) We requested the same sealer, but he wasn’t working that day and was going to be out of town. So we just settled for some random sealer. We go into the sealing room, and who’s there? The same brother. He was supposed to be out of town, but they had something come up and he was covering for the person who was assigned our sealing. We kept in touch (Christmas cards, etc) for a few years until we moved out of Utah for a few years. Not sure what happened to him after that.
• A Bishop loved my grandfather enough to tell him “…you have a beautiful family…but it’s too bad you have no hold on them for eternity.” My grandparents made their minds up the next morning to be sealed (and my dad and his sibling) and fully live the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
• As a journalist, I interviewed David A. Bednar three times. Twice for “State of the School” articles when he was president of BYUI, and once for a profile about him.
• I once saw Elder Soares at a department store, he was looking at dress socks. I walked up to him and said ‘Hey, I think we go to the same church’ He shook my hand, I introduced myself. Then not knowing what else to do, I started recommending good brands of socks….
• My dad worked in marketing for the church and kept finding in his field tests no one knew the BOM was about Christ. He presented his findings to the first presidency and the next conference it was announced the cover of the BOM would include “Another Testament of Jesus Christ.”
• My wife and I moved to a new ward and were asked to speak. We were assigned to speak on a conference talk. When we were sitting on the stand waiting for church to start, we realized the person who’s talk we were talking about was sitting on the stand with us…
• The first person I ever passed the Sacrament to was Elder Wirthlin. It was his granddaughter’s homecoming. I also made friends with and baptized someone I met over World of Warcraft.
• My very first visit to a Sacrament meeting as an investigator, I was introduced to Donny Osmond. I used to watch him every night via the Donny & Marie show when I was little. I proceeded to tell him that he hadn’t aged a day.
• In 1996 (the nascent years of the Internet) a coworker gave me a BOM & the pamphlet “A Marvelous Work and a Wonder” . Read the pamphlet, not the book. Spirit confirmed. Read the church website (yep!) and the antis (them too). 14 yrs of resistance. Baptized 2010. No regrets.
• I assisted the temple committee to help reduce construction costs. This was in preparation for the massive increase in temples. Kind of a weird story how I ended up helping.
• I got a quarter million views on a Book of Mormon evidences video I made on YouTube. I replied to every comment for ten years. Atheists & spiritual seekers had the best discussions with me there. Then teenagers stalked me so I took it down.
• I got converted because of the Matt stone and Trey Parker musical “The Book of Mormon.”
• My mission was selected to be part of the second phase for testing Preach My Gospel. We had it for about 6 months before the rest of the world.
• Nauvoo Temple : on the mission, I just happened to be a Zone Leader in Nauvoo when Pres. Hinckley wanted to rebuild the Temple. For some reason the GA’s had me & comp. go with them to the meetings for building permits. You know… the 20yr old Tongan kid from Utah… makes total sense, lol. Wildest part was we got a full week of hard “NO’s” in those meetings with the county… yet that weekend Pres. Hinckley announced the Temple anyway during conference. I was confused & sitting with the general authorities – they just looked at me and said “We’ve got to make it work.” That Monday, for no reason at all on our part (that I know of), the county & city reps tune had completely changed. Even the Catholic Nuns were excited for us & said they’d give up the land that their monastery was on (it was on the hill in front of the Temple). I was shocked. But when I chatted with the GA’s, they just acted like they knew whatever was supposed to happen would happen… and that the Nauvoo Temple was gonna happen. Fast forward a few weeks, and I’m standing with Pres. Hinckley & lots of others, while breaking the ground for the temple with a cool golden shovel. That’s still one of the craziest experiences of my entire life.

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