NOM

The choir sang Christmas music.

The speaker talked about genealogy and attending the temple.

The choir sang more Christmas music.

We all went home after one hour!

Why am I not surprised?

I also went to one-hour church today for the first time in ages, for family reasons. It was interesting to note how much more I feel like an outsider these days, even though I know a lot of the ward members (though I've technically never been active in this ward following a pandemic reshuffling).

The program was nice, though. Mostly just musical arrangements with a few people reading the expected scriptural passages.

Red Ryder wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 2:58 pm The speaker talked about genealogy and attending the temple.

That is quite a mismatch between the season and the topic.

I also went to church the 24th but my experience was much different . It was all about the birth of the savior and the usual Christmas stuff, kind of traditional I'm sitting their thinking I am so thankful that I'm not hearing anything about the one true church or joseph smith or any other church history. I am way outside the morridor so that probably helped. I am now when asked to give a talk going completely with bible references nothing else and no one even seems to notice or care. Maybe that will change in 2024 as we will be studying the bom who knows or cares, I know I don't!! Go Nomies !!

Mrs. Hagoth and I watched via Zoom. Our ward Christmas program is about as top notch as it gets. We have an amazing choir, plus string quartet and percussionist. Our choir director and some of her family are professional musicians and she is Lex de Azevedo's daughter. Sometimes Lex even shows up and performs. Always a treat.

I attended and participated musically. It was ok. Mostly music interspersed with short testimonies or talks. Lots of "I know the church is true" blather, but the overall tenor of the meeting seemed focused on Christ. Lots of folks thanked me and some expressed the hope that I'd attend more often. I can comfortably smile and say thanks, and chat afterwards, and still not feel a pressing need or desire to attend frequently. Most of our kids attended as well, but made quick exits.

I attended also. I was grateful it was only one hour. My son joined the combined primary and choir number that they did. One guy was asked to bear his testimony and it was the traditional "I know the church is true--blar blar blar".

It's kind of interesting. I haven't attended EQ for a long time. So maybe that's why I feel a bit estranged from other men in the ward. But I just couldn't handle feeling like an outsider in there.