Cannibals and sugar beets

"She told me once she was proud to have Brother Johnson sit in her kitchen and drink a cup of cocoa like he does every week. Because he was even wrote up once in the Salt Lake Tribune!"

     "For what?"

     "Because when he was on his mission, he was nearly ready to be cooked and ate by cannibals. Or anyway that’s what he says when he gets up and bears his testimony. Only at the last minute he converted them. Also his sugar beet for three years running has took first prize at the Fair."

     --From Variation West