We're organised honest!

It was yet another cold start to the day. So much so I'm wondering if I should ask Grumpy if we could turn the heating so it's on first thing in the morning.

Of course with the weather being in it's usual mood although it was very cold, it was also very sunny. Well until I got to work when it proceeded to tip it down with rain until about half past elven, then it turned sunny again and stayed that way for the rest of the day.

Proof I think ( as if we needed it) that spring is finally here.

Work was good if busy. I've got a lot to do right now but I'm keeping up with it all which is the main thing.

Driving to institute was good as it was light nearly the whole drive into Leicester. Which was interesting as you start to forget some of the landscape over the winter as you only ever make the drive in the dark.

I got the Stake centre to find we had a problem. We had students for the institute class, we even had our substitute teacher. What we did not have however was key to get into the building. This prompted a quite amusing gathering on the street outside as we tried to figure out what to do. One suggestion from a YSA to climb over the fence into the carpark was turned down as it would be pointless, one YSA would be trapped in the car park unable to get into the building or out again thanks to the railings.

The substitute teacher ahd been told that one of the girls LP would be opening the stake centre for him, but this surprised us as this girl hasn't been before Christmas. DoubleN who had turned up for the first time in weeks said he would try calling her. He discovered that she was coming. Hurah! But she wasn't going to get there until 8pm D'oh!! As one of the guys scrabbled in his car to find the bishops phone number someone said something about things had been well organised I couldn' resist the obivous joke and responded that they were as we were a organised church after all. At which point everybody had a huge giggling fit.

We then got through to the bishop but he was babysitting, so we were stumped again. However we found out that a church member who lived nearby had the key. DoubleN said he knew who that was as he was their home teacher. He then admitted he didn' have their phone number. When asked if he knew where they lived he said yes. " Their in that direction somewhere" waving his hand in a vague direction.

Finally J managed to get through to the said church member and was talking to them on the phone. By this point a few YSA were on the pavement and we were getting odd looks from passers by. Obivously wondering why the Mormons were massing.

My attenion was drawn back to J's phone conversation as he finished with " We think we know where you are, so we should be with you very soon" I winced as J left a giant sized opening for Irony to step in. DoubleN piped up waving his phone in the air in a dramatic fashion with all the enthusisam of a flag waver that he could use his satnav to find the way. I couldn't help but ask
" Why do you have satnav? You don't have a car?"
" Well I can use it if I'm walking somewhere"
I decided to leave it at that as madness probably that way lied.

J and DoubleN promptly disappeared into the night in search of keys leaving the rest of us hanging around waiting, well for something as time ticked on. GF our ward YSA rep chose this moment to appear along with Physics and O. They were obivousily surprised to see us as they were 15 minutes late and thought they would have to walk into the class late. Athena wasn't with them so I guess she was buried in coursework still.

Time continued to tick on as J and DoubleN failed to reappear. Finally after nearly another fifteen minute wait where people got colder and colder they reappeared from the gathering gloom. Unsurpsingly irony had decided to teach them a lesson and they had got very, very lost, despite Satnav and DoubleN's wonderful directions " Left, it's left here, no right, it's right definatly right" J turns right " no wait it was left it's right if you were coming from the other direction". I can only guess that DoubleN's companion does the navigating.

So we got into the building nearly 35 minutes late and for some reason that I missed but I'm sure that made perfect sense to the YSA who had entered the classroom before me, they had decided againist getting the tables out and arranged some chairs in a semi-circle for what they called ' a more informal atmosphere'. Now I say semi-circle as it actually looked like the battered horseshoe which had been run over by a steamroller shape that we usually manage in Elders Quroum lessons.

Our subsitute teacher started the lesson by explaining what insitute was for some visitors and who did he pick on to give a complete and fully indepth explanation. Oh right that would be me and with perfect timing my brain went completly and utterly blank. I think I could have just about managed my name at that point and that would have been it.

LP did eventually arrive and we discovered she knew nothing of the fact that Bro H thought she would be opening the building. So slight communication break down somewhere me thinks. We had a brief chat afterwards, about old times etc. Well not that old, only last year but institute had changed considerably since then.

ahh, memories......

Later folks!