I picked this up from another post about an "inspiring" e-mail going around on the internet (originally posted by "free@last"):

"The prophet took Kendall 's hat and tried it on. Who would have ever thought the prophet would be wearing a bird finger hat. He was a little taken back when he read what the cap said. Stacy was so embarrassed. But that's the name of their bird hunting company so what can you do.....it is catchy."

http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,19687


Apparently, little Kendall's family owns a bird hunting company in the Gila Valley (Southeast Arizona) that is called "The Bird Finger" and the cap worn by the boy is for promotional purposes.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5wRVdKoLhik/S_jL5Ic-eMI/AAAAAAAAE44/DINa78pS_MI/s1600/IMG_2962.JPG

http://www.thebirdfinger.com/


Monson saw the hat and evidently couldn't resist donning it to show he was just like one of the "little people." (I DO wonder, however, if he even realized the vulgarity of the word play on the cap.)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5wRVdKoLhik/S_jL6ZDQA4I/AAAAAAAAE5Q/HESCUKlTmFQ/s1600/IMG_2959.JPG


Too bad the posted image wasn't from the front--could've been one for the ages! (Someone else must have taken some "more revealing" pictures of the episode--maybe they're floating around somewhere in cyberspace!)

How many babies are being held in the photo? I Think I counted four. One one being held by a young girl so I assume the mother was probably holding another baby somewhere.

I don't know why it seems so strange to me, but good hell, that's a lot of baby Tithe payers. Did their parents drag them out so they can always remind their children that they got to meet a real profit of god?

I'm kinda creeped out.

And it's how I was raised ... I was a toddler when my sister was a baby, and my older siblings just older than me and a couple years apart themselves. And yes, the Mormon leaders were always more prominent in our lives than God or Jesus--yet Mormons are constantly complaining that traditional Christians don't see Mormons as true Christians.