Of Toilet Plungers and Sacrament Meeting Talks

Daniel and Abbie strike again. Unfortunately we don't have pictures. Eric and I went to church on Easter Sunday early for choir practice. Abbie and Daniel were supposed to get there on time because Daniel was blessing the Sacrament and Abbie was giving a talk. I started to panic when we started to sing the opening song and there was no sign of my children.

About half way through the song, I saw Daniel appear in the door to the chapel, and then he disappeared - still no Abbie. After the opening song Abbie appeared in the door to the chapel waving her arms and motioning me to come. I got up off the stand, and walked out and met Abbie in the hall. She told me that she had left her notes for her talk in Daniel's car. When she told Daniel about it on the way into the building, he tossed her the keys. For those who haven't seen Daniel lately he is almost 6'4" tall. He accidentally tossed a bit high and the keys ended up getting stuck high in a tree right outside our church building. Abbie and Daniel had actually been on time, but had been outside trying to get the keys out of the tree so they could get the talk out of the car. Abbie was tossing Daniel's brand new scriptures trying to hit the keys!

Daniel went back into the building to search for something to toss into the tree besides scriptures, and I jumped into my car to go home and reprint the talk. Just as I was pulling out, Daniel came out of the building with a toilet plunger. Enter our friend Doug Green who helped them toss the plunger into the tree and knock the keys out. Unfortunately, you guessed it, the plunger got stuck in the tree. Daniel opened the car and got the talk. Then Abbie and I went into building, and, somehow, Doug and Daniel go the plunger out of the tree. I don't even want to know how they did it.

All in all, a wonderful Easter.