We woke up and prepared ourselves for a lovely, normal Sunday as we got ready for church. Our cousins were in town to watch Erin and Kelli perform in the Dance Festival the night before. They came over for breakfast early this morning before we all headed off for church. As we were making our final touches before coming down for breakfast we jumped as we heard the fire alarms go off. This is a pretty typical thing in our house. Our alarms are very sensitive to any smoke and cooking usually produces some sort of smoke. Scared our cousins, but nothing out of the ordinary for us.
We went to church.
This was the first time our ward had been to this building at their scheduled time at 9am since the brand new building was destroyed by water. It was my first experience in this building. It is such a beautiful building and I was so excited to be in a real building. Sacrament was good. It was louder than I was used to because there were children but they were so much fun to watch. The deacons seemed to have a bit of a problem being organized but not a big deal. Everything else was going normally. Two youth speakers who talked for 2 minutes each. The sister speaker who talked and got weepy for about 20 minutes. And the final speaker, her husband who got about 10 minutes. All of the talks were well prepared. I started to drift into another world (not asleep - just not paying attention) during the last speaker. He was a bit monotone. Out of no where the FIRE ALARMS went off! We all sat there in shock for about 5 seconds and then started to evacuate the building. We went back in soon after but that was the strangest thing that has ever happened in a sacrament meeting that I have been in.
