Transient Bishop and a Cardboard Reba

Our basketball nights seem to be getting stranger as the weeks go by. Last week's incident with the stripper is long forgotten and has been replaced by more serious events. Breba is headed to Utah today to attend a Reba concert, and she brought one of her life-sized cardboard Rebas to b-ball last night so Reba could make her "debut" before she heads to Utah with Breba. I hope this isn't confusing anyone. But Breba left the cardboard Reba in one of the rooms at the church and kept "introducing" her to everyone who came in, including Ed W. (which was a mistake as we shall soon see). 

Once our basketball game started to wind down, and all the men who were in the church building had left and us basketball girls were the only ones there, Krista discovered that the beloved cardboard Reba was GONE!!! Yes, "someone" (Ed W.) kidnapped Reba and left a rather disturbing ransom note. The demands he left were for several chocolate bars to be delivered in an "unmarked brown bag" by Sunday, or else cardboard Reba would get the shredder! You can imagine Breba's distress.  She of course left for Utah this morning and she couldn't leave without her life-sized Reba. As we were trying to figure what kind of sicko had kidnapped Reba, we heard a loud banging on the doors in the foyer. We all ran out there thinking the kidnapper had delivered Reba only to find a strange man with a shaved head banging on the door. This is when the fun and games came to an abrupt halt. Thank goodness we had locked the doors after all the guys left, and Breba was trying to talk to the strange man through the glass doors. The guy was asking for a "transient bishop" or something crazy like that and wanted to come inside the church. We of course did not open the door, and we all were getting a little creeped out. So we ignored the guy and went back into the cultural hall pretending to be unconcerned with the weirdo who ended up sitting in front of the doors right by all of our cars. So we couldn't leave the church because then we'd have to pass the guy. So Sis. Bale called her hubbie and I called my dad and they both came down and talked to the guy who turned out to be homeless and an ex-convict (yikes). We also called 911 just in case. Finally, the guy walked away and we were able to leave, but not without the cardboard Reba, who we found locked in Ed W's office. She didn't seem to mind the kidnapping. We found her just standing there with a bag of Fritos in her hand like it was all no big deal. 

I used to hate when someone would say us girls shouldn't be down at the church without priesthood there. I would always say "I don't need a man to protect me," and Breba would say that since she is the R.S. president, she is pretty much like priesthood (is that blasphemous? Maybe...). Well, that was a lie I have now discovered. We all felt very vulnerable last night having a weird man outside of the church and no guys there to protect us. But now the real concern is how are we going to keep up our girls basketball nights? What guys are going to stay down there with us while we play? I'm thinking that Sports Chalet stripper might agree to it....

Oh, and for ALL Weathersby women who read this, please do not tell Ed W about this incident!!!!! We are planning on rectifying this situation in the future by having that male stripper with us every night anyway, so there is NO NEED for him to get all panicky and lecture-y on us!!!