You said fortunately, but that is wrong way of thinking. If Lama did say that, then it would be so fortunate.

A student wrote that he would have done anything Lama Yeshe had asked him to do, even eating ka-ka (feces), but fortunately he didn’t ask that. Rinpoche sent the following reply.
You said fortunately, but that is wrong way of thinking. If Lama did say that, then it would be so fortunate.