Since I get to be on the stage with the band and the band leader for the first 30 minutes of the Sunset By The Mississippi show - actually, the pre-show - I've gotten to interact with them a bit. I have kind of adopted Elder McGowen, the tuba player. I single him out for excessive praise to the sorrow of other band members. Each performance I come up with a new word to describe his awesomeness...such as, tubalicious, tubafanominal, tubatacular...you get the idea. One of the clarinet players whined so I told her she was a clarinatural and she was appeased. I did come up with a great name for the fluegelhorn players but they were unimpressed. It turned out what I thought were fluegelhorns were marching french horns. Who knew there were such things? Pshaw.
These band members audition for this mission and are selected to serve here for four months. It is considered a "real" mission even though they wear their hair different and wear different clothes than regular missionaries. They are on the go all day. Their leader is a retired high school band leader of forty years and a great guy. We're having him and his wife over for dinner this week.
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