SPANISH FORK, UT — What began as a routine Sunday morning ward council meeting took a shocking turn when longtime Relief Society President Sister Karen Jensen unexpectedly threw up a bold and unmistakable “Go Utes” hand sign, prompting audible gasps, three spontaneous testimonies, and at least one emergency release.
Sources report that just as Bishop Alan Hensley began the gossip-and-judge section of the meeting, Jensen solemnly raised both arms into the air, forming the classic goal-post-like “U” symbol in support of the University of Utah, a gesture described by witnesses as “spiritually jarring” and “unmistakably aggressive.”
“She didn’t even flinch,” said Young Women’s President Michelle Olsen, a BYU alumna, who was visibly shaken after receiving the brunt of the aggression. “It was like the Spirit left the room and Urban Meyer himself entered. You could feel the temperature drop and the humidity rise — classic Spanish Fork weather.”
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The moment, now being referred to by ward members as “The U-pheaval,” reportedly disrupted a planned agenda item about locking the doors from the outside during Sacrament Meeting. Instead, the bishopric spent the remaining time counseling Elders Quorum President Brad McKinnon, who had collapsed under the cultural and theological weight of being a BYU graduate.
“I always knew Karen had a wild side,” said Brother McKinnon, still clutching a copy of The Miracle of Forgiveness like a weighted blanket. “She once said ‘fetchers’ during opening exercises. But this… this was full apostasy.”
Jensen, a 33-year-old Relief Society President and proud U of U alumna, offered no apologies.
“It’s not my fault the hand sign also looks like football goalposts,” she said, sipping Diet Coke through a red straw in open defiance of both tradition and local hydration norms. “I felt prompted. The Spirit of ’04 came over me.”
When pressed about the motivation for her gesture, Jensen clarified: “I was just tired of all the subtle BYU propaganda. Brother Wallace kept calling the refreshments ‘Cougar Tails.’ It’s been months.”
Church officials have declined to comment directly but did issue a general reminder that “spontaneous school spirit manifestations” are to be “kept to non-sacrament contexts and absolutely never during Ward Council Meeting.”
Meanwhile, the ward council has been indefinitely postponed pending a disciplinary hearing or tailgate, depending on turnout.
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