Mime4Jesus - A Great Way To Start

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set the example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. I Timothy 4:12

Oct. 27, 2009

A Great Way To Start

It was a great first presentation!

Not, of course, that it was my first. However, it was the first for FIVE of the kids on our team, so it was pretty exciting! We presented in Kimberling City, at First Baptist’s “Young at Heart” event. We did it last year but apparently I didn’t write anything about it; I just posted a couple of pictures. Well, didn’t take any pictures this year (been kind of lax in that department lately) but have lots of memories so I’ll write those. They’re better than pictures. I think.

So when we got to the church the only people there were Alex and Maria, and they quickly left because they said Charleton was waiting over at a McDonald’s in Branson West (I guess he lives up that way) and they didn’t want him to be sitting there for an hour by himself. So they went over there to accompany him. We had brought John and Moriah with us so we stood around and looked at each other until the Voths and Duncans got there. Emily D wanted me to twist her hair and I’d gotten down to the bun before I realized there was no point my twisting it because she wasn’t presenting and I wasn’t that good anyway so I just took it out. Go figure. She had Tess do it later at the presentation place. Tess can do anybody’s hair and make it look good. So can Jenny. I can’t.

So when we realized we had a while to wait till Tess got there with the white van (yes, our old standby friend), we went through There is a God ‘cause John and Moriah were taking Sadie and Ellie’s parts in that song. That went fine but glad we went over it. Sadie and I grabbed props – which were the same ones that they used on Saturday and still stunk – and when Tess got there we loaded up and left relatively quickly.

Gabriel and I had the most interesting conversations on the way to Kimberling City. It was about forty-five minutes total travel time so we had a lot of time to talk. He was telling me about dinosaurs and that he played baseball. Lily was ducking down every time a car drove past because she didn’t want them to see her and eventually Nicky joined in (there was nothing else to do). She and Gabriel also took to calling me a “jumpamen” – Gabriel’s version of “gentleman.” Kyle was sitting in the back with the amp on his lap. He named her Abigail. Beware of Abigail the amp. That’s all I’ll say.

We picked up Maria, Alex and Charleton at the McDonalds, drove past our destination on accident just like last year, turned around in the same parking lot, and arrived only seven minutes late (not bad at all, considering all the issues Tess had with the van before she got there). Tess went off to figure out what was going on as always and directed me to start twisting hair. I recruited Emily V’s help and we tackled the four girls’ hair. The moms watched closely and caught on pretty fast! I was really impressed. I just love Amanda’s hair, by the way. So beautiful… so easy to twist. =)

After everyone was twisted we got some food – just a little ‘cause they weren’t expecting so many of us – scarfed it, and then crammed into the bathrooms to put on makeup. You should have seen the girls’ bathroom with ten girls in it trying to put their makeup on and three or four other people standing around watching or helping. It was a zoo. I felt bad for the few women who ventured in there to use the restroom for its intended purpose. I think we made it pretty difficult.

I only helped other people put makeup on instead of doing my face, because Jo and I were supposed to teach some technique to the audience. The lady who booked us wanted us to teach some technique-y things the attendees could learn sitting down and then show to their grandchildren or something, as a conversation starter for witnessing or something. So Jo and I were going to teach that but we ended up not doing it because Tess knew how to do it and we didn’t. So she taught and held the microphone and Jo and I demonstrated. It was fun. She taught toc, leaf, butterfly, ball, and balloon. I killed my butterfly and they all thought that was funny. Jo pitched a ball at me (we were playing catch) and I ducked and they all thought that was funny. They thought most of what we did was funny and definitely made it fun to teach.

Then Jo and I tore out of there and banged open the doors to the bathrooms and smeared on our makeup. The team was watching as we rushed in. I’m sure they were laughing at us… oh well. I wasn’t keeping time but I’d say three minutes is a pretty accurate estimation for how long it took. (to be continued... man, I've written a page and a half and haven't gotten to the actual presentation yet)

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