Thieves and a Snake Skin

Fax machine - too big for thieves to get through the attic hole

Bob and Elder Crespo with 10 foot python skin

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

The morning began with a bang – a bang on the door that is. Delfin had run to get me to tell me that some one had broken in to the Stake Center and he wanted me to come and take pictures. I went. The thieves had removed a light fixture from the ceiling in a hallway that has a room and wall on one side, but is open on the other. They had then crawled through the attic and came down in the bathroom in the Stake President’s office. The only thing to be stolen there was the fax machine so they hauled in through the hole in the bathroom ceiling and through the attic to the hole outside. But, the hole was too small, or the fax machine was too big. So I have an interesting picture of a fax machine resting partially out of a hole in the ceiling!

The police were called, but since nothing was really stolen and the damage to the building was minimal, they weren’t very interested.

Elder Crespo arrived in the Office today. He has been called to be the new Assistant to the President and we are glad to have him back. He brought with him a 12 foot python skin. The snake was found by the neighbors swimming in a canal behind his apartment in Dumaguete. The men quickly caught and killed it, skinned it, roasted it, and they all had a neighborhood feast. They gave the amazing skin to Elder Crespo. I took a picture of him and Bob with the skin stretched out on the lawn