Transfer calls are always fun. You find out on Saturday who your next companion and what your next area will be, and then you leave the following Monday. Wednesday night before transfer calls, we figured we could get some juicy details from Prez in advance. Wouldn't be easy, though, so we decided to take a more indirect approach. As an excuse to call him, we thought up a question we could ask about the new missionary handbook. He answered the question very nicely, as expected.
Elder Clayton: "Well, Prez, thanks for your time, and I don't mean to put more on your plate. I know you have bigger fish to fry."
*awkward silence*
President: "Yeah."
Elder Clayton: "Alrrrighty then, catch you later!"
*phone call ends*
Well, that yielded no results. We called the zone leaders in Hradec Králové to report.
"How'd it go?" they asked.
"Nothing," said Elder Clayton. "You should call him now and ask the same question. And make sure you use the phrase 'I know you have bigger fish to fry'."
"What did you ask?" they wondered.
"We asked if we could take the car to do P-day activities," I told them. "He said it's fine, as long as we don't go over our monthly kilometer limit or do anything we're not supposed to."
"I could have told you that," said Elder Mangum. "Anyway, we get home in an hour, so we'll call him then."
"Sounds good." An hour is a long time to wait, so we decided to call him. It didn't go through, so we tried again. Still didn't seem to work, so we tried from Elder Clayton's phone. Then it told us that the line was busy. Oops. Don't know why it didn't say that from MY phone.
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