Sunday School Announcements

The Sunday School Announcements have always been a little on the bizarre side, and today didn't disappoint me. We have them right after the sacrament, since we stay in the chapel for Sunday School. First off, the Sunday School President hadn't even made it to church yet, so there's about a minute before someone in the branch presidency gets up to welcome everyone and time for announcements. First one up, our new coordinator of the branch list. She's decides it's time for changes and that she's going to take everyone's pictures and put it together for the ward directory. Just so you know, I've never lived in a ward or branch that's done that before. Next she announced break the fast meal after church and that we're dedicating it to our previous branch president and his wife as they were released two weeks ago. Okay... sure... Then an announcement for the upcoming temple trip. Then a girl gets up for the most random announcement of the afternoon. The datebox. Apparently she was talking with one of the guys who just got back from BYU. In their ward they had what was called a datebox where people would put in names of people who they think should go on dates and somebody would set them up on a blind date if both parties consented. Well, this girl decided to do exactly that on her own. Needless to say, there was some reactions and the poor guy who wasn't involved with carrying it out had to defend himself once it came to Elder's Quorum. Next announcement was FHE, where we will be playing dodge ball, and since it's supposed to have a spiritual message, we're going to make the dodge balls the fiery darts of the adversary. Then came up one of the most conceded girls I've ever met who announces all the activities going on in her life and invites everyone to them. This one in particular was a track meet that she's running in. Next is the guy who announces the Friday night activity and is the weirdest guy(in a good way) you've ever met who is just bizarre and turns it all into look at me, I'm funny. Which they usually are. So there you have it, a run down of a typical Sunday School Announcements.

There's also some philosophical things that I was thinking at church, but I'm not in the mood right now to blog about it, and I want to think on it more. There's also some stuff in there I could blog more about if I want to, but I'll leave it to this.