The Rat Room

I just have to tell this story. I was certainly not a prize winning mom this night.



We went to the colony and stayed lastFriday night for the service on Saturday. We stayed in Bro. Eli's house. We went a day early because we had a lot of work to do. We did a baptismal on Saturday. We got ready for bed that night. Steve and Philip were in their hammocks and Hannah and I in one room and then Joshua, Benjamin, and Thales (another boy whose family went with us) were in another room. Thales's mom, dad, and 2 small brothers were in another room. As Hannah and I laid down in the bed, I took a quick look at my surroundings. They had a lot of food stored in this room. Then I remembered that they had told me there were rats in this room. Like any wise mom, I traded rooms with Joshua (age 8), Benjamin (age 6), and Thales (age 9). But I did not tell them the situation with the rats. All night long we heard them running back and forth and I could only imagine what was in that room. But the boys slept all night long and seeing as they do not have energy, there were no lights on, thankfully. The next morning feeling a bit guilty I told the boys that they had slept in the rat room. They were really funny. All the boys wanted to stay another night and Joshua and Thales wanted to stay in the same room to see if they could shine their flashlights and see the rats. I guess they are much braver than me.