I have a TON of stories from my mission, so I figure I will just start with early ones. I'll see if I can come up with some amusing titles for them.
Don't mess with the Tongan!
This particular story happened in the MTC. In my zone (basically a group of elders, in the MTC), we had a very large, very strong Tongan by the name of Elder Tuavo. To put it in perspective, this young man went through the entire weight facility there, and without looking, put the pin in the bottom setting on every single machine (in one day) and proceeded to do 30 - 40 reps before moving on to the next machine looking for something to challenge him. He could lift me, with his PINKY FINGERS, above his head. That was a challenge for him though.
To the story... We were gathered with our zone to do zone prayer out in the common area when a fight broke out between a couple of the elders. Apparently one elder had said something about the other ones girlfriend, then knocked over the picture that he had of her, breaking the glass. The other elder completely flipped his lid, chasing the instigator out of their room with a chair over top of his head, obviously with the intent of striking the other young man with it. This all happened in the middle of our zone prayer. Elder Tuavo was kneeling next to me, and I opened my eyes at the commotion and saw him open
one eye (which for some reason made this all the more awesome). He then reached for his hymn book which was in front of him and chucked it and the elder with the chair in his hands. The book hit him square, close to his left ear. The kid (which is all he deserved to be called for his behavior), drops the chair from the impact and whips around
absolutely enraged looking for who threw the book. At this point Elder Tuavo opens his other eye, looks straight and the kid and gives a short grunt.
I don't know what surprised the kid more, getting struck by the book or seeing who his would-be target was that threw it. The kid, frightened beyond belief, backs up with his hands in front of him... picks up the chair and the hymn book, sets the book down on the chair and looks back at Elder Tuavo. The mighty Tongan nodded his head off towards the other hall and the kid scampered away, apparently forgetting all about his room-mate who broke the picture of his girlfriend.
Myself, and everyone else who had opened their eyes to see what was going on, had extreme difficulty with-holding our laughter until our zealous zone leader finished his prayer (he was intent on having it end on a spiritual note so kept finding things to pray about).
... XD
At least he had the sense of self-preservation.
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