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Largest Fish
Largest Fish. 80-lb. Line. (1988 World Record) In
1988, Nate J. Anderson, a young 13-year-old in the Soldotna Ward, Soldotna
Alaska Stake, caught the largest King salmon ever hauled in with 80-lb. test
fishing line. The fish weighed in at 71 lb. 4 oz.
Oldest Man to
Row Atlantic
(2001 World
Record) In October 2000, Richard Jones, a high priest in Sandy, Utah, pushed
off from the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa and rowed across
the Atlantic Ocean. His 133 day trip had some close calls with a freighter
at night and the U.S. Navy, but otherwise he arrived safely at the Bahamas
in February 2001. The trip was record breaking. He became the oldest person
ever to row an ocean. He was the first American to row the Atlantic. And, he
was the first person ever to row an ocean towards his native country. The
total distance rowed by Brother Jones was 4,576 miles.
Greatest Size Difference
Professional
basketball player, Shawn Bradley, and his wife Annette, may have the largest
difference in height than any other married couple in the church. Between
Shawn's 7- foot-6 height and Annette's 5-foot-4, there is a size difference
of 26 in.
Highest Flier
(1990 World Record) Explorer John Goddard, La Canada, Calif., took the
controls of an F-106 and flew it to an altitude of 63,000 ft. (almost 12
miles high), making him the only civilian to pilot an aircraft to that
altitude.
Quintuplets
Several couples in the Church have had multiple births, including
quadruplets and quintuplets. On Sept. 1, 2002, Nichole and Nathan Faylor of
the Plum Creek Ward, Austin Texas Oak Hills Stake, gave birth to quintuplets
their five babies that weighed from 2 lb. 12 oz. to 4 lb. 5 oz., and were
named Joshua, Jonathan, Joseph, Nataleigh, and Cathryn.
Miss Universe
The First LDS to
be chosen Miss Universe was Linda Bement, now in Parleys First Ward,
Parley's Stake, Salt Lake City. Sister Bement won the Miss Utah and Miss
America contests in 1960 and went on to win the Universe title that same
year. In 1960, was there any problem modeling a swimsuit? Says Bement,
"Pageant standards are much the same now as they were in 1960. Even so, a
lot of people both in and outside the Church criticized me behind my back
because I modeled a swimsuit." She points out that she was careful to wear a
one-piece suit that was plenty modest.
Most Twins
Most Twins -
Ward. Who has the most twins in one ward? In 1957, the East Mill Creek Third
Ward, East Mill Creek Stake, boasted nine sets of twins ranging in age from
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