1- I learned to speak Navajo.
True. My family moved to the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona when I was four, and we lived there for over two years. I was the only non-Navajo in preschool, I was the only one in kindergarten. I picked up a lot of it from the other kids, and some of their lessons were taught in Navajo, so I picked it up from some of the teachers, too. Of course, I don't remember any of it now.
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2- My grandmother gave birth in a potato cellar.
2- My grandmother gave birth in a potato cellar.
False. But she very well could have. Most of her nine children were born while they lived on potato farm, and she worked in the cellars. After they sold their farm and moved to the metropolis of Idaho Falls, she continued to work in a potato cellar for a potato processing company. And guess what they ate with every meal?
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3- I baptized 65 Peruvians.
3- I baptized 65 Peruvians.
Also false. I did serve a mission in Peru, but I didn't baptize that many. A few less than 65. It was an astounding experience, but it feels strange now to look back in disagreement with some of it...okay, a lot of it. But I enjoyed the country, and I enjoyed the people, and I was doing what I had been raised to do.
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The last part of this episode is to invite others to play Two Lies, One Truth on their own blog. If you choose not to do it, don't worry, I won't be offended. But it does make for some interesting conversations and comments!
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20 comments:
This is very interesting!
I, too, spent my early years in a different culture (the Azores, in Portual) and spoke a fair amount of Portuguese. Shame it's all gone now.....
However, the only baptisms I've ever conducted were for my childhood dogs (it seemed very important to me when I was 7 that our dogs be baptized.) :)
Hope all is well - give that precious Elijah a big hug from me when you see him!
Oh, I was so wrong! Darn it! Knowing you, all three of them could have been truths, so that was hard.
How cool is that? Navajo! Can you do a rain dance? You are one amazing person.
Ha HAH!! I KNEW IT! You are soo much cooler than I previously thought (and I totally thought you were cool before).
Love it!
*snort* See? I knew I was wrong.
You never cease to amaze!!!
You is cool.
Dammit, why can't I ever get these things right? Why would you parents move to a Navajo reservation? There's gotta be a story behind that, and I wanna hear it!!!!
Justine :o )
But imagine if she had given birth in a potato cellar. Talk about Mom induced guilt. So much better than those: I walked to school barefoot in the snow, 25 miles each way~stories. ~Mary
JASON! How do we know you're telling the truth here????
Really? Navajo? You are a man full of surprises!
Navajo? You lived on a reservation. I think I need to reread Jason's Story. I must have missed a chapter or two.
You Rock!! I am so impressed, really Most Excellent Fibs and TRUTH.
Even the Nazis could not break the Navajo code, amazing, just amazing.
Dang it! I missed the Lies Show. I have been MIA working OT this week, and I knew I'd miss out on the fun.
I was born and raised in Phoenix, nowhere near the reservations, but I always had a thing for the Navajo nation. Or maybe it was the Navajo guys. I do like me some Native American Hunks. Wow, did I digress or what?
Oh really?! I was so sure I was right. Navajo? That is so cool!
It is fascinating to me that you learned Navajo.
I really thought that this option was the least likely of the three to be true.
Did you eat mutton stew and fry bread? Did you hang out with kids whose homes were hogans? Am I ringing some bells? Were you on the rez, or slightly off?
Crazy. I grew up with kids whose last names are Littletree, Yazzie and BlueEyes. My hometown is Farmington, New Mexico.
Look at you with all your games. You are so brilliant.
How cool that you speak Navajo. Awesome!
Thanks for the tag. I'll do it later this week. Just put my "Sentimental Sunday" post up today - and want that to be up for a few days for people to see it.
Cheers!
Cindy
The sad part is that I was leaning towards Grandma giving birth in a potato cellar as being true and I'm your friggin' brother! I had to think back and try to remember if that event had taken place and told Heidi that there is a strong chance it is true. Oh, there are two things you gotta love, Sheltons and Idaho.
I wanna hear what Cheri comes up with. She's a liar. I mean, lawyer. She should come up with a few good'ns.
So you really could have been Mr. Potato Head, just not born in a potato cellar.
I was close, very close.
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