December 2, 2009

Progressive Dinner flop

Usually you can tell what the enrichment activity for Relief Society is going to be every December, a Progressive Dinner. Well last night was ours. They rented a school bus to haul us all around. We were suppose to start out at one house for the appetizer and then to another and so forth until we ended back at the church for desert and a program. Well, we had a great turnout of about 60 woman. We loaded up onto the school bus. It has been a really long time since I was on one and I felt so big. I remember those buses being huge, this time I felt so crammed. But it was fun.
We headed out to the first house just down the road. When we arrived it was all dark, both outside and in. The presidency started to panic. So someone called this sister, I won't mention names, and she wasn't home and was no where to be found. So forget the salad, on to the next home for another appetizer, when we arrived it was all nice and decorated very beautiful and we thought that this certain sister would be ready for us for sure. So we walked in and this certain sister was laying on her couch watching T.V.. She came out and wanted to know what we were all doing at her home. She had completely forgotten and thought the activity was the following week. So, by this time the presidency is flipping out. We can do without salads and appetizers. On to the dinner. So we all loaded back onto the bus again and we finally arrived, very early, to the home that had dinner. When we arrived there were some cars leaving pretty fast as if they were in a hurry. So the activity chairman looks worried and hops off the bus to see what is going on. At this point, everyone is laughing and wondering what is going on. So this sister had a family emergency and she explained that her husband had taken the dinner down to the church so we could eat there. She felt so bad.
We felt so bad for the activities committee that had put so much preperation into this and have it not turn out. So we all headed back to the church after a 30 mintue fiasco and a fun bus ride. Once we got inside it was beautifully decorated. We all sat down, had dinner and desert and finished the night off with a great music. Overall it was nice to be out with the sisters. We have a great ward. It has been almost one year since our ward was formed and we are loving it!

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