Stories: Pres. Jarvis and My Herb Collection
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As many of you know, Romania has wild Marijuana growing just about everywhere. For those of you who were convinced at some point during your missions that it was not real Marijuana you were fooled, it is, and it's everywhere. As a joke I use to collect a leaf or two every time I was in Bucuresti from the fantastic piece of soil next to the Chapel in Sector 3, you know the one I'm talking about. I kept these leaves in my English bible thinking that it was the least used of all the books I had. I kept most of it in the book of James, I don't know why, I just really like James.
One day in my mission President Jarvis accidentally called me to be a zone leader and assigned me to Cluj in place of the amazing John Clark who was leaving the mission. A few months later we were having a zone conference in the Cluj Vila and President Jarvis was sitting next to me as usual. We came to the close of the conference without a single major problem, it was great.
As missionaries were standing one by one to bear their testimonies, President Jarvis was struck with some sudden inspiration and needed to look up a scripture to be used in his testimony. Since his scriptures had already been taken out to the car he asked to borrow my Bible. I reached down between our chairs and grabbed it, then handed it to him without a second thought. He began thumbing through the pages and it hit me like a bad ciorba what he might find in there. I was instantly sick. I sat there with beads of sweat forming on my forehead as he just kept thumbing through what seemed like EVERY page in the Bible. All the time getting closer and closer to James.
I could already see in my mind the scene that was about to unfold. Here we were in front of the entire zone, and he was going to find Marijuana in my scriptures, and be so surprised he is going to hold it up to look at it closer. This, of course, is going to grab Elder Christiansen's attention clear across the room like a bolt of lightning. He, in turn, will yell out, "Oh, my heck Elder!" and this will turn the attention of all those who have not already noticed the illegal substance President has just discovered in my Holy Bible.
Well, President found his scripture before he found my Marijuana collection, and handed the Bible back to me as he stood to give his final thoughts to the zone. I usually take very good notes on every word that came from this great man's lips, he always seems inspired to me, but to this day I have no idea what he, or anyone else said in the ten minutes that followed.
I went home that night and threw away all of my leaves, having decided that was close enough for me. |
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