Do you have a funny prayer story?
We all have one, right?
Harambe Jr. and TheMormonLikes hit Twitter up with the question, “What’s your funniest prayer story?”
I can honestly say I’ve never been witness to this first one below.
At a huge mission homecoming a priest was blessing the sacrament and started off
"O God. The eternal water."
The congregation laughed during the entire time he had to repeat the prayer
— Mitchel Nelson (@Mitchelnelson4) August 2, 2018
Children say the most interesting things, and prayers are no different!
Teaching primary, our church is a block from train tracks. Same kid volunteered every week and always included, "and please bless the train that it won't jump its tracks and destroy the church and kill us all."
— Brett Lutz (@brettlutz) August 2, 2018
This is what happens when we use vain repetitions. 😂
Just as we were getting ready to say prayer over dinner as a family the phone rang. My sister (about 13 y/o) jumped up to grab it and picked up the receiver and answered with, "Dear Heavenly Father, I'm so grateful for this day…"
— CopperTopHomeGurl (@TheGingerMia) August 2, 2018
I really hope this has never happened in any other Sacrament Meeting.
A priest is saying the sacrament prayer and screws up. Catching his mistake and embarrassed by it, he instinctively drops the F-bomb. Picked up on the mic and broadcast to everyone in the congregation. The Bishop turns to him and, with a look of horror, mouths “no!”
— Jack Christensen (@ChristensenJack) August 2, 2018
I wonder if this was a joke or it just happened?
One time my friend ended his prayer by saying “Ame-rica”
— Brady (@kilgore_brady) August 2, 2018
Another vain repetition prayer rears its ugly head. 😂
When I was in the youth, we played hockey for a combined activity. The kid saying the prayer at the end said “please bless we can take this…hockey…into our daily lives.” Almost 20 years later and we still tease him about that
— Cameron Searle (@cameron_s101) August 2, 2018
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Yeah, personally not seeing this as a very effective way to do missionary work.
I had some missionaries that thought it was hilarious to start a prayer with “Our beloved Joseph Smith” as a joke to investigators.
— Josh (@HuntStar05) August 2, 2018
Has anyone else put their companion to sleep while praying on the mission? I looked over at my companion one time during prayer and he was drooling.
Mission: On my knees and my mind went blank.
"I don't know what else to say…"
"What are you talking about?"
"Companionship prayer… I can't think of what else to say…"
"You finished the prayer 20 minutes ago."— Andrew Zaugg . (@ZogUte) August 3, 2018
Being a Bishop has to be very uncomfortable at times.
A Dad was giving his son his baby blessing, and in the middle of the prayer blesses him to become a prophet when he is older. The Bishop turns to him and says “you can’t do that.” To which the Dad says, “oh.” Waves his hand above his sons head and says, “undone”
— SwagMcMuffin (@braden_adams82) August 2, 2018
You have to admire this man’s efficiency.
A middle aged single guy on my mission told us about how he had one prayer over his groceries every time he went shopping, that way he didn't ahve to worry about meal time prayers.
We thought maybe he was joking, but it turns out he was dead serious. pic.twitter.com/AMJNPQbGTW
— The Mormon Dislikes (@MormonDislikes) August 3, 2018
Kids. 😂
My brother-in-law found some scribbles on the pew in front of them. He disapprovingly told his 3 year old daughter, "don't do that, Jesus doesn't want is to draw on his bench." She looked up and said "Jesus, can I color on your bench? OK, thanks!"
— Just a regular emu (@TheOtherBigBird) August 2, 2018
Now this is an example of someone who talks to God just as if they were talking to someone else in the room.
House prayer on my mission (4 missionaries), phone rings. My companion says, mid-prayer, “Heavenly Father, can you please wait for minute, I need to answer the phone?” Answers the phone while we wait. Returns, “Okay, Heavenly Father, thanks for waiting.” Finished prayer normally.
— Aaron M. Kinser (@AaronK_MN) August 3, 2018
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In primary, when a young boy said the prayer and asked that “no harm would be followin’ us.” Do you think his family prays that “no harm will befall us,” lol!
A different time, same boy said: “oh yeah, and thank you that Spiderwick Chronicles was rated PG, because if it was rated R my mom would be like, “No way!!”
Oh my goodness, those are hilarious! Kids are the best.
When my kids were in primary I would make chocolate chip cookies after church as a reward for behaving. My oldest son who has autism could say very few understandable words but they asked him to give the prayer in primary in an effort to include him. One of the most clear phrases in his prayer were, “please bless that we earn chocolate chip cookies”. The primary president after church told me that they would all like to earn chocolate chip cookies for doing a good job at church.
That’s awesome! I want a cookie now, too!
One time I was praying over dinner with the family. I was about to say thank you for a few of my kids who had helped with the meal, but instead I said the wrong kid’s name and then backtracked. “Thank you for Orion, no, not Orion.” Then I busted up laughing and struggled to quickly finish the prayer. We laugh about it still, but really I am very thankful for Orion.
Haha, that’s so funny. I hope Orion still laughs about it. 😉