Picture of the Day for 3/20/2012. I decided to be a little less anti-social than usual and attend the 170th anniversary of the organization of the Relief Society at my church. We had a light dinner and then watched a Mormon film that was produced in 1969 called Johnny Lingo. Every school-aged Mormon child has seen this film and most of us can still quote lines from the movie. It's about a Polynesian community where a man negotiates with the father of his bride-to-be on how many cows he (the prospective suitor) will pay for the wife. Johnny Lingo wants to marry a girl called Mahana who everyone thinks is ugly, including Mahana herself. Her father thinks he'll be lucky to get one cow for her, but to everyone's surprise, Johnny Lingo pays the unheard of price of eight cows. After Mahana and Johnny are married, people are surprised to discover that Mahana has turned into a beautiful woman. Because Mahana's husband valued her enough to pay eight cows for her, she began to see her own worth and blossomed. Most of us in attendance at the party tonight had not seen this film since we were teenagers so it was definitely a trip down memory lane.
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