http://www.twincreekdesign.com/blog/mcallisterfamily/index.cfm Blog of the Cache Valley McAllisters en-us Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:56:22 -0700 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:18:00 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss stmcallister@gmail.com stmcallister@gmail.com http://www.twincreekdesign.com/blog/mcallisterfamily/index.cfm/2008/8/31/Weights-and-Measures This story doesn't have much to do with the family, except for that I was there. What I'm about to share occurred while fulfilling my church responsibilities. I work with the youth, and last sunday while all of us were gathering for a lesson one of the young men cracked open a window as he declared that he was hot. As the nearest person of responsibility I didn't see anything wrong with it, except for the young man's train of thought as it was much warmer outside than in. Laws of temperatures withstanding, I didn't say a word about the window being open. That is until a wasp floated through the open space. The buzzing creature created quite the silent stir - didn't want to interrupt the teacher. While the boys immediately surrounding me were completely focused on the bee, I motioned to the one closest to the window to shut it so that others wouldn't fly in. Our visitor hovered around a bit before camping out on the ceiling for much of the class time. Most of the guys had turned their focus back to their shoes until the wasp took flight again. Quietly, each boy prepared himself with what ever weapon they could find. It was the lad directly to my left who was the least frantic, even though the wasp was lowering right in front of his face. Just as the bee reached chin level, the boy calmly raised his open scriptures and then closed them, crushing the bee inside. Once the class was over all of us familiar with the situation huddled around him to inspect the damage as he opened his scriptures. As he pulled back the pages we found the lifeless bee crumpled in the boys Bible Dictionary. The definition that was smeared with the bee-guts, 'Weights and Measures.' That was enough to make me chuckle. Church Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:18:00 -0700 http://www.twincreekdesign.com/blog/mcallisterfamily/index.cfm/2008/8/31/Weights-and-Measures