Comments on: P-Day Shenanigans http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/ A Mormon Blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:12:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Homercito http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23914 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:51:07 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23914 When I was in Guatemala, the tough mission work was compounded by the rough living. Sometimes the rules didn’t even seem to apply to our bizarre situations. Many of us ended up using the rulebook as emergency toilet paper.

In southern Guatemala on one memorable P-day we went with the family we lived with to a cool place called “Andamira”, which were caves you had to swim into. Seemed rather cool at the time.

Also we went to a lovely beach called “Las Lisas” for the day. I would love to go there again. Someone had to paddle you to the beach through a swamp on these little log canoes. You can rent these Gilligan Island huts for 50 cents a day. Yes, we got a little sunburned.

Hiked three hours to a cool waterfall in the jungle on the coast of Guatemala with our district missionaries. Fine, except a couple of elders didn’t want to go and stayed back and about an hour in I realized we were on a double date with two hermanas. That one did end up back at the mission president for some reason. Wasn’t me.

Crossed over the border into el Salvador just so I could have an authentic “pupusa”. Even though we didn’t have our passports (strange, when I think about it now), the border guards let us pass when we gave them some of our “valuable” folletos. They were still reading them when we crossed back into Guate. Maybe we changed a life???

Since I was into Mayan ruins, we made a day-long trip across the country. I had been feeling a little peeved that I couldn’t see some of these things that some other missionaries told me about. So we went. When I looked at the guest signbook at the site, there were a couple of general authorities signatures and all the office elders. I signed my name in real big letters.

Let me tell you, I was a good, solid hard-working elder. I’m surprised now as I review the sum total of some memorable p-days. But our president let us see movies on p-days, and we did some fun zone activites, too. Heck, we climbed a volcano with lava, with our entire zone one p-day.

]]> By: acm http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23981 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:11:38 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23981 Ronan #38: they weren’t kidding you. I was in the MTC when that missionary snuck out to go rock climbing and I well remember when we had explained to us what had happened. It was a very sobering day and I’m not surprised they’re still repeating the story.

]]> By: Andy http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23980 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:18:56 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23980 Well, missionaries in the Korea Pusan Mission might have beaten that!

It happened shortly before my arrival in the country, so I’m just giving the review of events here.

Hot humid summer, American missionaries, 3 floor multi-family home with a 1 meter high wall surrounding the roof, an interior door removed and re-positioned to block off the stairway entrance to said roof, lots of items to block off the roof drains, and a garden hose.

P-DAY POOL!

Then, the unrealized fact that the roof was not engineered for that large amount of water on it. It collapsed, flooding out the missionaries’ apartment, and giving the other families below quite a sight out their windows as the water quickly exited out the missionaries’ doorways.

]]> By: john f. http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23979 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:32:49 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23979 The Trib’s Robert Kirby is making a bid to one-up everyone so far.

http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_8579246

]]> By: Darrell http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23978 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:01:08 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23978 John Deacon, the worst that my companion and I did on the banks of Loch Lomond were ride our bikes too far so that we could not get back in time and made ourselves sick on the berries that we picked and ate on the way. The only musical problem that I had on that trip was my companion incessantly singing “Ye’ll tak the high road and I’ll tak the low road,” until I could have screamed. From your musical references you were there MUCH more recently than I was.

]]> By: gst http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23977 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:40:21 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23977 We too surrendered our passports in South America. Then my mission president ordered the shooting of a congressman and news crew who had come to investigate our colony. He then induced us all to drink poison.

Which is to say, the passport-confiscation practice fails Ronan’s ever-helpful test: If it seems cultish when someone else does it, it’s cultish when we do it.

]]> By: John Deacon http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23976 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:47:49 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23976 I remember going to Loch Lomond in Scotland on a beautiful summers day. Looking out across the Loch and nobody in sight my companion and I looked at each other, looked at the water, read each other’s minds, stripped, ran and dove in!
Following this we played “Salt lake-opoly with half the MALE YSA’s in the ward until the early hours and ordering curries and pizza’s in the process! THrough all this for some reason we still insisted on listening to borderline music like Braveheart (fitting), Last of the Mohicans etc. etc. rather than the British Mod music I am was more accustomed to!

]]> By: CS Eric http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23975 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:44:35 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23975 I live in Southern Colorado, so these idiots are serving where I live. I just feel glad I don’t recognize them.

A fun P-Day for us in Korea was to take the bus as far as it went and start hiking from there. My favorite memory was when we happened on to a Buddhist temple that was celebrating its 2500 year anniversary. The monks thought we were Amrican Buddhists coming to pay our respects, and so even though the feast was over before we arrived, they got out the leftovers and set us up a spread. We even got a commemorative medallion, with a picture of the stone-carved Buddha on it.

]]> By: mentat http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23974 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:50:22 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23974 How about the time when my companion and I were the only missionaries NOT to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert! By some coincidence (or divine providence) the only two missionaries in the Japan Kobe mission who would rather proselyte than spend all day (and a good chunk of money) traveling to see the Choir happened to be companions. I felt very rebellious given that our mission president wanted everyone to attend …

]]> By: Larry http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/07/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23973 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:20:26 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/03/p-day-shenanigans/#comment-23973 We had to surrender our passports upon arrival because, a few months before, some greenie had stolen the Book of Mormon kitty and fled to Okinawa.

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