Brother Cherrington called and scheduled an appointment to come to our house on the Wed before Thanksgiving. I didn't want to be released from my calling but you know how that goes... My biggest concern was being put in 1 of the
4, yes
4 nurserys in our ward. Well, he comes over and he's doing the getting to know you thing and releases me from my calling. He then springs the new calling on us.
WARD MISSIONARIES!!!!!
So, after staring at him with my mouth opened for a few seconds, I look at Brian, we both look at him and BUST OUT LAUGHING!!!! Yes, we laughed. That poor man. He comes to our house to do this spiritual thing and we laugh.
I tell him, you've got to be joking. I said, "Do you want to know what kind of missionary work we've done over the past 21 years?" And I was silent. I then said, "That's it. Nothing!". Brian then precedes to ask him if they prayed about it!
I'm laughing now as I'm writing this!!!
Poor Brother Cherrington, he's all serious and says, yes we did pray and we feel it what's you should do. Brian then says, we know why they sent you. "You're the new guy and you don't know us and they wanted to iniate you!" We told him we figured that when Brother Perry was released from the bishopric and Brian was still the Sunday School President, Brother Perry told him, "He's your problem now!" Poor Brother Cherrington. He's all serious and says, no we didn't discuss that.
Well Brian then says, "I was a ward missionary before". I say, "When? I don't remember" He said, "With Nathan Toronto." I said, "Oh yeah. You didn't do anything." Brian said, "Yep. That poor man". I then look at Brother Cherrington and told him that Nathan could become a serial killer and he would still be guaranteed to go to the Celestial kingdom because of having to deal with Brian! That brings out another round of laughter from me and Brian.
So finally we get it together and say okay, we accept. Well, Brother Cherrington high tailed it out of there and after we close the front door I called for Danessa. She was up in our computer room and I said guess what, "WARD MISSIONARY". She proceeds to bust out laughing and then there is another round of laughter. She said mom, that man probably hasn't made it to his car yet and he can hear us laughing!
So on Sunday, they released me from my calling and proceeded to call us to be WARD MISSIONARIES! I'm happy to report I didn't really laugh until after sacrament meeting when the people who knew us came up and laughed with us.
