March 07, 2005

Shortcut Prayers

With one month left on my mission, the mission president assigned me a brand new missionary to train. The logistics of that is a post for another day.

Anyhow, at my companion’s first district training meeting, we sang a hymn and knelt for opening prayer. The elder asked to say the prayer said something along the lines of the following:

Dear Heavenly Father,

Prayer #9.

In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

We all stood up to do our missionary recitations (Standard of truth, D&C 4, etc), and my companion stayed kneeling on the floor completely dumbstruck. After the rest of us stopped laughing, we knelt again and offered a more thorough prayer.

That’s probably a guaranteed passage-to-hell ticket.

1 comment:

Bryce said...

That made me laugh.

Reminds me of one night as we were kneeling for our evening prayer together. The phone rang, and our district leader, who in the middle of praying for the group, paused, waited for two rings, then said, "wait just a second," and answered the phone.