I just love it when I see the funny side of the apostles. Here is something cute Pres. Boyd K. Packer said in a BYU devotional Jan. 16, 2007.
Lehi’s Dream and You
BOYD K. PACKER
Boyd K. Packer was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this
devotional address was delivered on 16 January 2007.
My college life began at Weber College, then a very small junior college. World War II had just ended. Most of the men in our class were recently returned from military service. We were, by and large, more mature than college students of your day. We had been through the war and carried with us many memories. Some of them we held on to; others we were glad to have fade away. We were more serious and did not enter into fun and games as much as you do. We wanted to get on with our lives and knew that education was the key.
We took the insignias and labels and sometimes even the buttons off our uniforms, mixed them with odds and ends of civilian clothes, and wore them to school. That was all we had to wear.
At military training camps, we had been marched from place to place in formation. Often we would sing marching songs. At college, I attended the Institute of Religion classes. We had our own marching songs. I remember one of them:
A root-tee-toot, a root-tee-toot.
Oh, we are boys of the institute.
We don’t smoke, and we don’t chew.
And we don’t go with girls that do.
Some folks say we don’t have fun.
We don’t!
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