By Jennifer Davis
'Your name is Ammon? You must have a disarming personality.' Ammon Fawson, a junior from North Ogden, says that joke gets old.
Ammon is a common name at BYU. There are at least 27 students named Ammon running around and no, none of them have ever been convicted of disconnecting their enemy''s body parts, but the disarming jokes don''t stop.
It would be nice if the Ammons at BYU were associated with the spirituality and obedience of the great Ammon of the Book of Mormon, but no, the arm thing is always the topic of conversation.
When Ammon worked for Living Scriptures, he would tell people his name, but everybody accused him of lying. Who would name their kid after a Book of Mormon hero?
'You feel like you have such an awesome predecessor that has gone before you,' Ammon said. 'I can just see Ammon coming up to me saying, ''What did you do with my name?''' That would be al-arm-ing.
Ammon said he never really got teased as a kid for being named after a Book of Mormon hero who cut off arms, but kids find ways to be cruel. 'Ammonal'-(Animal) and 'Ammon eggs'- (Ham and eggs) were frequent nicknames for Ammon.
Ammon is proud to be named after Ammon. He knows what kind of responsibilities are weighing on his arms - er, shoulders.