About a month ago, I ordered a nice, leatherbound copy of Jesus the Christ for Husband for his birthday. A day after I ordered it, I realized that I had accidentally put my work suite number on the order instead of my apartment number. When I called Deseret Book, they told me that since it was already ready to ship, there was no way they could change the apartment number on it (the people who work at Deseret Book are crooks).
So, instead of making a big deal about it, I simply walked over to apartment #2 and informed the nice lady there that the book would mistakenly be arriving at her house. I offered to leave my telephone number so she could call me when it came and I would run over and get it. She insisted that she would bring it to me and that it would be no big deal to do so.
That was three weeks ago. I just called Deseret Book, who said that FedEx delivered the package at my (meaning the wrong apartment) back door nearly two weeks ago.
So what does that mean? It means that the old lady in #2 stole my book about JESUS. If you were going to steal a book, I would think that a book about the mob or the Romans or other people who steal and lie a lot would be more appropriate. But a book about JESUS?? COME ON!
4 comments:
Erin, don't fret. This could possibly be the start of the most awesome conversion story every.
I agree with Holli on that one, even though we don't know each other. Either that or the old lady in #2 has no soul. Anyhow, there's the title for book #2.
Ha, that's nothing. When I was in the MTC, one of the elders in my district had $500 stolen out of his desk in his room. Yes, he was not too smart to leave that much money in an unsecured location, but who steals from a missionary? And if it was in the MTC, it means it was either another missionary, or one of the cleaning people, most of whom are probably church members!
It was actually me who took the $500 from that missionary...you know, I had a little extra time in between being accused of "flirting" with an Elder in my district (who, by the way, later turned out to be gay) and running away from the Samoan elders in gym who found me irresistable (go figure).
And, hopefully the lady will read the book and be baptized. She's going to have to be so she can have her sins washed away - specifically, the sin of stealing my book.
However, with my luck, she will be a staunch Southern Baptist who will read the book and then run over here (sans book) and tell me that I'm going to hell with all the rest of the Mormons!
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