WHOOPI WENT TO CHURCH!

I was perched on the bench with my counselors Sunday waiting for members to arrive for Sacrament Meeting. Then I thought I've seen something. When I decided to take a closer look, she was already strolling towards the pulpit.

Whoopi had followed Sister Vengco to church without her knowing it! We tried to get the dog out of the sacrament hall as we were about the start the meeting but then she would run. Without a leash, it was not easy for us to tie her on something.

I don't know if Whoopi would could be counted as "attendance" but Sister Vengco couldn't bring her back to their house without missing the sacrament. So for the rest of the sacrament, Whoopi was outside the hall!

After sacrament, we tried to bring her to the back portion of the meetinghouse but then she would run back.

If there was someone happy about Whoopi being around it was my 5-year-old son James. He brought her to his Primary class! The other children weren't that happy or so it seems. There was grandmother who cautioned her grandson that Whoopi might bite him!

Make a long story short, Whoopi went to Church last Sunday.

Early Monday morning, after I have washed the van, I strongly felt I have to go back to church! So I went. Lo and behold, when I opened the gate towards the sacrament hall, Whoopi was there!

She probably had gone back to church and was trapped inside!

She sort of bounced up when she saw me and after I opened the gate, she was all over me. After printing a form I needed, I took her into my arms and brought her home!

Sister Vengco was surprised but thankful to see Whoopi home. She said they have been looking for Whoopi all night and thought she had been kidnapped or what!

Before I left, I waved at Whoopi, who seemed to have waved back at me!

Whoopi was saying thank you just like the story of a whale below from the San Francisco Chronicle sent to me by Frank Lewandowski.

A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat.

She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed an environmental group for help.

Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her.
They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.

She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around - she was thanking them.

Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.

The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

You could just imagine how it be like when the day "the lamb and the lion shall lie down together without any ire" shall come....