Mystery Night

MEET THE PLOPPERS, (Owners of "THE CALIFORNIA STAR" San Francisco's 1848 newspaper)

Believe me when I say that our sister missionaries work hard.  They study their scriptures personally and as companions, prepare and teach a PMG lesson every week, study Come Follow Me, give lots of service in the community, and daily serve a four or five hour shift at the Battalion.  Even with all this they find time to socialize with some creative entertainment a few nights every six weeks.  

For a recent activity Sister Stoddard put together a mystery night at the Mormon Battalion.  We had to solve who stole all the money out of the San Francisco Bank in 1848.  Using the aliases and bios she gave each of us we put on simple costumes and solved the puzzle of who stole all the money out of the bank.  

Grandpa and I were "San Francisco's Mayor, Kevin Plopper and his wife, Ann. Mayor Plopper oversaw everything in the city and helped to make city laws.  He worked alongside the sheriff to control any chaos that  arose in the developing city.  His wife, Mrs. Ann Plopper, was the only reason anything got done.  She is known for being intelligent, helpful, and very strategic." (I liked the character Sister Stoddard gave to me and grandpa, who doesn't like role play and being put on the spot put on a fake mustache and tried to enjoy himself.) 

Mayor Plopper and his wife, Ann Plopper

Elder and Sister Ottley were William and
Tina Buck, Owners of Buck's Bank

Believe it or not! The Bucks themselves were the thieves.

Mandarin speaking Sister Stoddard was the
creative mind behind our mystery night. 

The fire alarm for our apartment building went off again today right in the middle of my working on this blog entry.  I'm not sure how often this happens, but this is the second time I have been home to experience the eardrum piercing sound.  Gratefully, both times it seems there was no real threat of fire.  But this does bring back memories of the fire alarm going off in our apartment in Palmyra because of my cooking --- and too many smoke sensors in our small apartment.  I would just die if my cooking something here set off the fire alarm for this whole big building!