This Is Why I Can't Serious

I have a natural tendency to find the humor in any given situation, and, occasionally, this causes problems for me.

Like today. Today was very bad.

Today was my last institute class of the semester (Wow. Such sad. Very miss. Much Spirit. Wow.), and, as I am in a New Testament class, we ended on the topic of the Atonement.

I have an extremely strong connection to/testimony of the Atonement, and I already knew I was going to be extremely emotional during this lesson. So when Brother Simpson said "Guess what! We're watching a church video ACTUAL FOOTAGE today!" I knew it would be "worse" than I was anticipating.

And yeah. It kind of was.

I always get a strong confirmation of the truth when I watch these kinds of videos, so I was crying. Like a lot. And I couldn't really stop.

And then comes the scene where the women come to the tomb to find the angels and no body.

This is an extremely spiritual and highly significant part of the story. It is not to be taken lightly. It is not funny. It is amazing and glorious and wonderful.

But when the one angel guy sitting on the stone looked at all the women and told them that Christ had risen, I almost started crying tears of laughter.

Because instead of what was actually said, all I could hear was "Hi, you've reached Christ's tomb. Jesus isn't here at the moment, but if you leave your name and number, He'll get back to you within three days. Thanks!"

And all I could think was "Those angels are like the very first answering machine!"

And I'm pretty sure the dude sitting next to me noticed my change in demeanor and looked at me out  of the corner of his eye like I was crazy, so that was pretty great.





Moral of the story: In case you were wondering if I can serious...

I can't.




~Kylie