The other day Nina told me that the guest toilet was leaking. My initial inspection didn’t show what was leaking, but I also didn’t have the time to do a thorough check. Nina did, however, and the leak was on one of the three bolts holding the tank onto the bowl. So, tonight while Nina was up at the prison, my task was to fix the toilet. That required a trip to Home Depot, of course. I bought a kit to do the fix and have spent the rest of the evening figuring out how to take the tank off and apart, reassembling everything, putting it back together, and cleaning up the mess. I’m pretty sure that the bleach tablets that we’ve been putting in the tank caused the rubber gaskets to disintegrate causing the leak. I’ll need to check the other toilet out since it’s been getting the same treatment. But, no more water on the bathroom floor is a very good thing.

The other day a good friend from work as well as a good neighbor stopped by with a piece of paper where he had copied from another missionary a supposedly remarkable prediction from a book published in 1732. The prediction talked about the coming forth of prophets within the next hundred years and a people driven to live in a valley by a great lake. It also predicted the coming of a priesthood with apostles, prophets, teachers and deacons.

This was a very remarkable piece of paper. However, if such a prediction had indeed been published, the Church and the General Authorities would have been all over it and I would have certainly heard about it. So, I went on the Internet and did a search. One of the first websites that came up was called LDS Hoaxes and Myths and thoroughly debunked the prediction. I was surprised to see how many other myths, urban legends, and hoaxes were debunked on this website. I shouldn’t have been surprised that there were so many Mormon Urban Legends! Some people will make up the most preposterous of stuff. The website was a good find, however, and metaphorically flushed another myth!