November 16

We held council meeting tonight at 5 o'clock.  Even though we waited a half hour to start we only had four YSAs in the meeting.  Sigh.

Many YSAs showed up for the activity tonight and most of them were new.  We love meeting new YSAs.  About half way through the evening I walked out of our office where we had been talking to some YSAs and noticed that "the pest" was standing in the pool room.  When he saw me, he started out the front door.  I am much faster than he gives me credit for and so he had not reached the stairs before I was out of the door.  With him was another young man.  I told them both to wait, and then in my best strict mother voice told "the pest' that he was to get off the institute property; no sitting in the grass nor on the bench under the tree, because I did not want him sneaking into the building again tonight.

I then turned to the other young man and explained that he could not be in the building because he was not 18.  He asked if he could just wait for his friend inside the institute, and because I was so frustrated with "the pest" I told him no.

Later I learned that the other young man was from my ward, and was not a friend of "the pest."  He had  come with Manase Kofoe, his old YM president.  Boy did I feel stupid.  I reminded Manase that he absolutely could not bring young men to the institute.  He apologized which was unnecessary.