The Five Man Guitar

04/25/08

I was with some people, and we were traveling. We weren't traveling in cars, though; we were on foot. It was getting dark and we needed some place to stay. There were all these really large mansions that were for people to be able to stay in for free. We stayed in one and the next night we stayed in another one. The 2nd night I went into the bathroom (one of many) and it was huge, but very dirty ad disgusting.

The next morning Jeremy's dad came over. He came in with a slightly odd shaped guitar case. He opened it and pulled out the weirdest guitar I've ever seen. It was a little shorter than a normal guitar and the base was a lot wider. It had really old wood. The oddest thing is that it had these knobs that were diagonal one to another that might have also had a string attached to them. These knobs were on the neck above the normal strings. There was some kind of crank at the base that turned the knobs and played some kind of musical sound, and then normal chords and notes could be played on the strings below. He showed us how it worked and taught us what to do for us to play a song on it. There were a few different people all playing the guitar at the same time. Some one was playing the crank, another the strings, a few were playing drum beats on the guitar with percussive items Jeremy's dad had given them to do so with. What he taught us how to play ended up being a Radiohead song with all the parts played on one instrument. I don't remember what son it was, though.

Apparently I was with some scouts, because later we were all going to leave, but someone had forgotten to do his swimming merit badge with everybody else. My dad said that they were going to head out, but for me to wait for this kid, and then Jeremy's dad would give us a ride to catch up with them.

The next thing I remember is being at my apartment with Derek, and Jeremy came over. He had just gotten home from an LDS mission. HE was still Catholic, but as a Catholic he served an LDS mission, teaching people about the LDS church and the gospel. HE had really loved his mission and had had a lot of success. I remember thinking about how he wouldn't have been able to personally baptize any of the people he taught, because he didn't have the priesthood. Jeremy was sitting at our computer and he was on the internet on a message board. It seems like he was on Muspa. He also had a new hackysack, which he kept up in a vent in the ceiling above the computer.

A little later Jen came over with Jack and we played around for awhile. Then some missionaries came over with a friend of Rebecca's they had been teaching. For some reason they needed me to do her baptismal interview. She passed the interview.

Later, there was some elderly lady that had a meeting with people that were district and zone leaders on their missions. She had baptismal interview forms, for people baptized, that had been signed by these different missionaries. She was reviewing the interviews with the missionaries to find out what the missionaries thought about these people they had interviewed. She asked me about this friend of Rebecca's. I told her that she was really excited about getting baptized and seemed to be prepared. I said that she wasn't going to be a typical Mormon and do things just because, but that she would be a good Mormon. I mentioned that she also wanted to serve a mission.