10.05.2007

ToP 10 WaYs 2 EaT a PB cUp- TrIbUtE tO GeN. CoNfErEnCe

So, as this weekend is General Conference, I dug out this email I have had for awhile now!  I guess it will
test if you know the "voice" of the General Authority, it is hilarious.... I hope you all enjoy (this AND conference), It is always
bittersweet for me as my last week on my mission was April General Conference 2004. I loved my mission
and I can say not a day goes by where I do not think of it, I was so blessed to serve there! I had tears in my
eyes when they rededicatedthe Tabernacle or as we called in the "TAB"- it was my favorite assignment,
besides tours, on my mission. Itis an AMAZING building and I can not wait to see it again!

TOP TEN WAYS General Authorities Eat Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

10. Paul H. Dunn: "I remember back in WWII that I ate a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
Back then, they were big enough to live on for a week.Being the only soldier to have
survived the battle in my brigade, I really didn't know if I could eat it or not, but
I remember my fallen buddy's words as he died inmy arms: "Paul, if you just take one
bite at a time you can tackle anything." So I took that giant cup and, breaking it
with the bat Babe Ruth gave me after I struckhim out with two outs in the bottom of
the ninth in the seventh game of the World Series, proceeded to wolf down the tiny
morsels."

9. David B. Haight: "Imagine 70 years ago on a rough road between Idaho and Logan.
There were no Circle K's, no 7-11's. You had to bring your Peanut Butter Cups with
you. Ruby and I split one for the first time in 1937.

8. Dallin H. Oaks: "The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup challenges us to consume. From
the beginning there have been three steps in eating a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
First, remove the wrapper. This is best done quickly, by turning the cup over,
grasping the outer fold and pulling away from the bottom Second."

7. Joseph B. Wirthlin: "When I was young I would sprint to the corner store, buy a
Reese's and run my hand through my hair before taking it down in one bite. These
days I don't sprint, and I have no hair, but the peanut butter cup remains."

6. Richard G. Scott: "If you have not eaten a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, I plead
with you. Eat one now. Enjoy the chocolate, the peanut butter. Do not delay. If
you have thought, "That's not for me", I plead with you to reconsider. Of all foods
I treasure, this one was the first."

5. M. Russell Ballard: "The time has come when members of the church need to reach
out to our friends and share a cup, a peanut butter cup. It is not enough to raise a
chocolate bar, it must now have peanut butter."

4. Thomas S. Monson: "I remember I ate my first Reese's Peanut Butter Cup when I
was a tender lad of eight. My mother came up to me, and with a loving twinkle in
her eye, asked, 'Tommy, are you eating a Reese's?' And I would invariably smile up
to her, 'Yes, Yes, I am.' 'But Tommy, did you know that Sister Jensen next door
hasn't eaten a Reese's Cup in years?' My young mind thought upon the plight of my
neighbor. Tears were shed. Hearts were gladdened. A cup was shared."

3. Boyd K. Packer: "In all my years, I have always eaten my Reese's Peanut Butter
Cups the same way - the established way we have been instructed to eat them. There
is a far greater evil in this world - those who believe they can eat their cups in a
way unconventionalto the time-honored manner. We must be true and faithful and eat
our Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in the customary and recognized approach as it has
been established."

2. Neal A. Maxwell: "I intentionally initiate the delicious design of deglutition
of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup by nibbling a negligible nit of the culinary creamy
cavalcade. It is exclusively through small entities that the great things are
fabricated."

AND THE #1 WAY

1. J. Golden Kimball: "Hell, Heber, I'll eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup any damned
way I want!"

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