I haven't posted to the group in a while, but a funny thing happened 
to my husband the other night and I thought the LDS members (and possibly 
others) of this list might get a real kick out of it too, .
My husband, Bill, is on the motorcycle squad with the Kansas City 
police department. A few nights ago, he pulled a car over for speeding, on the 
highway. He noticed it had Utah tags, so he took a wild guess and figured they 
might be Mormon. (Gee, what are the odds?:) 
Anyway-- he gets up to the car, sees it's a young guy, college age, and 
says "Where are you headin'?"
"Utah"
"Where in Utah?"
"American Fork, south of Salt Lake."
My husband said, "Oh yeah, I was a service manager at Big O'Tires in 
American Fork a few years back."
The kid says, "I know where that is! I went to high school just down the 
street from there. You must be LDS." 
Bill says, "Yes, and since you asked, you must be LDS, too. Did you serve a 
mission?"
"Yeah, I did"
"Where did you serve?"
"ARMENIA"
Bill goes "You've GOT to be kidding!"
"No! I'm serious"
"No way! Armenia?"
"Yeah! I was there for 2 years. Why?"
My husband says, "My wife is Armenian!"
Well the kid freaked out.... "Really? That's so awesome! I fell in LOVE 
with them! They're the coolest people on the planet!"
Apparently, he's only been back for about 6 months, got a job in Alabama, 
but it didn't work out, so he was heading back to Utah, and had all his 
pictures and souvenirs in the car! . 
So anyway, he asks about my family history, Bill gives a little history, 
and they swap stories. The guy speaks fluent Armenian, reads it, you name it. 
They sat there at the side of the highway just chatting for awhile, and 
finally Bill had to get back to work-- but they swapped information so we could 
give it to my mother. (She's first generation American but has never been to 
Armenia.. This guy was heading to his parents house, which turns out to be right 
down the road from my mother-- not more than 2 or 3 miles. So we figured 
she'd love to talk to him, see the pictures, etc, and he said he'd love to do 
that.) 
Anyway-- One of the things that totally cracked my husband up was this.
Apparently, no matter who they were speaking to, the same thing would 
happen everytime the missionaries would try to discuss the scripture in Revelations 
that talks about the war in heaven between Satan and God, and Satan and a 
third of the heavenly hosts ended up getting kicked out of heaven. (For info's 
sake, Mormons believe that all of humanity were the 2/3 that followed God-- 
that's why we were born on earth, while the 1/3 that followed Satan and were 
kicked out, are only spirits who have no physical bodies) 
So the elders would ask, "Who do you think were the 2/3 of the hosts of 
heaven who followed God?" They'd always say, "Well the Armenians, of course!" 
And the elders would ask, "Well who was on Satan's side?" And they said, 
"That's easy-- the Turks!" Then the elders would say something like, "Well, we're 
talking about before there were earthly nationalites; before there were 
Armenians and Turks. In heaven, before you were born-- who followed God and who 
followed Satan?" Then, they'd always say something to the effect of "Those who 
followed God were born Armenian, those who followed Satan were born Turks." 
And they were very serious! 
Oh, and needless to say.......he didn't get a ticket. :)