Well, well, we know our kids look forward to Sundays when they can come praise the Lord, learn about Him and have fun with friends, but word must have gotten to our friends in the furry world too because they came a visiting on Sunday!
I went up to Sunday School to play guitar last Sunday and the kids were all super-excited, more than usual. Then the ever-smiling Adeline greeted me with “There’s an animal in the (praise) room”. I jokingly thought to myself, “Now… that’s no way to call Uncle Johnny (our resident multimedia extraordinaire and Sunday School teacher)”, but Adeline was serious – there WAS an animal in the room! The poor fella was trapped between the amplifier cupboard and the wall. It looked something like the furry friend below, but we’re not so sure.
Quick as melting ice, Uncle Johnny, Uncle Jothi and your truly (Uncle Andrew) came armed with a gunny sack and 2 fishing nets. Why fishing nets you ask? We don’t know. Being the city-slickers that we were, we weren’t sure what animal it was – it looked like a cross between a ferret and a fox, but we figured it couldn’t be that difficult to catch a whatchamacallit right?
So after what must be a funny sight with 3 grown men scurrying around with fishing nets, we managed to break 2 sheets of glass and one of the nets. Ah… but we caught the furry fella, put him in a plastic container and Uncle Johnny went to release him into the wild green yonder outside our church.
10 minutes later, Auntie Yuh Bin found another one hiding in a box in the same cupboard where the first one was. She came to me again and said “I think there’s another one, but it must be dead because when I reached inside the box and touched it, it didn’t move”. I wanted to say “Maybe it died because you touched it”, but I didn’t because Auntie Yuh Bin doesn’t look like someone you mess with ;-).
Anyway, this time, Uncle Leong Soon was with me and we put the whole box into a gunny sack. Was quite easy this time probably because it was scared. The video below shows Uncle Leong Soon releasing the furry fella (or fella-girl), hopefully to be reunited with her mate (they must be mates we think).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xggEI0w2VgY[/youtube]
I know, I know… you’re asking the same questions the kids and teachers were asking…
What type of animal was it? – We don’t know.
Where did the cute fellas come from? – We don’t know.
Why did they choose our Praise Room? – We don’t know.
How did it get into the room? – We don’t know.
How long were they quietly hiding in the cupboard? – We don’t know.
Can you tell we don’t know a lot of things? But we did find out a couple of things – they smelt like wet doggies (really) and they poop when they’re scared (I should know… I cleaned the poop).
One thing we DO know though… Sunday School is a really fun place to be, me thinks!