We didn't think anything more about it until later that night. The first missionary sat on the bathroom floor (next to the commode) from 10:00 p.m. until midnight. He said he felt like throwing up SO bad that he held his stomach for the two hours until the queasy feeling subsided. His companion was in there doing the exact same thing from 12:00 until 2:00 a.m. and had the exact same feeling. I was in there from 2:00 until 4:00 doing the exact same thing. WE all had this feeling that 'if we could just throw up, we would feel fine!'.

Evidently the rabbit HAS to be cooked to get all the lard out of the meat before it is consumed....failure to do so means that all the lard goes into your digestive system, and almost no one can handle that much lard in one sitting! We can laugh now, and even laughed at/with each other the next morning...but you'll never catch any of us trying 'surprise' meats ever again! As a side note - Elder Kahn admitted to us that his first experience with rabbit preserve had had the exact same ending, which was why he abstained ;)

Elder Jean-Paul Chaussé, submitted to the former site