Terror on Flight 789

The original story of the Mormon missionary who cried bomb

36 posts

Chapter 11: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...

previous: Chapter 10: Mischievous Me I didn't discover what was happening with such other players in our story as Elder Finn and President Tuttle until some time later, but for the sake of variety (if nothing else) perhaps we should drop in on them now and see what

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6 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 10: Mischievous Me

previous: Chapter 9: The Mounties Get Their Man Constable X read me my rights as I sat there in shock. I don't recall the words, but I remember thinking how strange the Miranda-style rights were in Canada. Very much like the rights you hear read in the States,

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5 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 9: The Mounties Get Their Man

previous: Chapter 8: Local Customs Now, before we go any farther, I should perhaps clarify a couple of things. First, you should know that, when I phoned in my bomb threat, I never expected that Elder Finn's flight would experience anything more than short delay. I admit that

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4 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 8: Local Customs

previous: Chapter 7: I Drop a Bomb of My Own I felt a moment's euphoria after making that rather dire pronouncement. I had done it! I had actually done it! I stood there next to the phone booth for several seconds, not moving—until suddenly the full import

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5 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 7: I Drop a Bomb of My Own

previous: Chapter 6: Elementary, My Dear Watson We pulled up in front of the airport before too much longer, Finn and I. It was a bit before five in the evening. We parked the car in a fifteen-minute zone right near the entrance, then hauled Finn's luggage inside

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8 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 6: Elementary, My Dear Watson

previous: Chapter 5: Finn Drops a Bomb Well, ma'am, at Elder Finn's little announcement you can be sure I was stunned and thrown into something of a panic. After all, to review a bit, my own experiences from the previous couple of months had taught me

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6 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 5: Finn Drops a Bomb

previous: Chapter 4: The Bell Tolls for Me Snow and I played around all morning on February 23. The leadership conference was due to start at three in the afternoon, so we had to get our recreation in early. Around one we went back to the apartment so Snow could

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4 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 4: The Bell Tolls for Me

previous: Chapter 3: The Full-Court Press As I said last time, Snow and I had numerous adventures in our two and a half short months together, most of which once made for great telling at mission reunions. There was the Mattress on Top of the Car, the Evening of Two

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7 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 3: The Full-Court Press

previous: Chapter 2: Escape from Canada! So there I am, unable to reenter Canada, closed up in a stuffy office with this pretty young Immigration officer who's staring at me like I'm something from the bottom of the Marianas Trench as I try to explain what&

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5 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 2: Escape from Canada!

previous: Chapter 1: Come South, Young Man The bus rolled into Calgary at around six-thirty in the morning. I waited for the transfer bus anxiously in the huge downtown Greyhound station, fearing that someone from the mission would spot me and the game would be up. Now, the way I&

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4 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 1: Come South, Young Man

previous: Foreword: A Record in Mine Own Hand It may not surprise you to learn that I was once a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—dark suit, tie, name tag, short hair, the whole bit. Two entire years spent knocking on doors, from the tender

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5 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Foreword: A Record in Mine Own Hand

And I know that the record which I make is true; and I make it with mine own hand; and I make it according to my knowledge. —1 Nephi 1:3 Every word of this is true. I have to make that clear up front, because some of you are

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3 Min
By: Elder Shunn

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