Funny Mormons » j golden kimball http://funnymormons.com Because We Like To Laugh At Ourselves Thu, 17 May 2012 03:45:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Silence is Golden… http://funnymormons.com/2011/05/silence-is-golden/ http://funnymormons.com/2011/05/silence-is-golden/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 18:30:57 +0000 Danny http://funnymormons.com/?p=577 …but Golden was not silent! I thought it has been a while since we had a post on J. Golden Kimball, so I thought I would include another story about him. Brother Kimball is well known for his outspoken ways. He says just what he thinks, whether it seems appropriate or not. This story is taken from The J. Golden Kimball Stories by Eric A Eliason.

J. Golden Kimball began one of his stake conference addresses supposedly, by saying, “Brothers and sisters, how many of you have read the Seventeenth Chapter of Mark in the New Testament?”
Many hands went up, and he said, “Well, you’re the people I want to talk to today! There are only sixteen chapters in Mark and my sermon for today is on liars and hypocrites!”

Many times I wonder after hearing so many funny stories about J. Golden Kimball, if many of them are just made up and attributed to him because he is one of the only Apostles that would have done something so outrageous.

]]> http://funnymormons.com/2011/05/silence-is-golden/feed/ 3 J Golden Kimball http://funnymormons.com/2009/12/j-golden-kimball/ http://funnymormons.com/2009/12/j-golden-kimball/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:11:54 +0000 admin http://funnymormons.com/?p=197 J Golden Kimball was a member of the council of the seventy in the early 1900s. He was known for his colorful vocabulary and drinking coffee. The guy was the son of Heber C. Kimball (one of his 65 children). Today I was thinking this blog needs some J Golden Kimball stories so I did a quick search and this was one of my favorite little stories. I could have a section of this site dedicated to J Golden stories.

J. Golden Kimball was riding on a stagecoach somewhere in Missouri. A group of men were riding along with him, and they began to complain about the Mormons. Apparently, they didn’t realize a Mormon was among them. One man said he hated the Mormons with a passion, thus he was going to Texas to get away from them. Another man said he was going to Kentucky to get away from the Mormons. And finally, a third man said he was going to Boston to get away from all the “blankety-blank” Mormons. J Golden Kimball then said, “Why don’t you all just go to Hell because there won’t be any Mormons there.”

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