Je Suis
On the sweetness of Mormon life.
Your speaker at Church is a hardbitten, no-nonsense type who just got back from 6 months of hardbitten, no-nonsense type highly paid contract work in an African country where the Church has no presence (and is not allowed to). To take the sacrament, he had to get permission from a branch president in another country several hundred miles away using WhatsApp and Google Translate. Saturday mornings he read the Bible with a 7th Day Adventist fellow contractor. Sundays he sang hymns, blessed his own sacrament, then had “2 Apostles speek at every meeting.” He said he had a favorite picture from his trip he wanted to show us. It was a picture of a white plate with a rip of bread on it, a white teacup with water, both on a white napkin. He started to cry.
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E.C.
July 28, 2024
I love sacrament meetings. Today we had a 25-minute talk from the wife of one of the stake presidency on The Family: A Proclamation (including an earnest appeal to be real men and women, not sad imitations of the other sex), then a short but emotional talk about how the speaker was coming to know Jesus, not just know about Him, then another talk from a young man who’d just finished a service mission, and who testified boldly about Joseph Smith’s role as Prophet of the Restoration and how all good things are possible through the Atonement.
My contribution: we sang Come Thou Fount. I’m the music coordinator now, and I chose according to the Spirit in this instance. After that last talk, the hymn was particularly apropos.
In the end, I don’t think anyone wanted the meeting to end. The sweetness of Mormon life, indeed.
G.
July 29, 2024
I love that earnest appeal and that hymn
seriouslypleasedropit
July 29, 2024
lovely
John Mansfield
July 30, 2024
“It was a picture of a white plate with a rip of bread on it, a white teacup with water, both on a white napkin.”
We are taught that it matters not what we shall eat or what we shall drink when we partake of the sacrament if it so be that we do it with an eye single to Jesus’ glory. This principle has been codified as direction to the priesthood to use water always. Since the emblems themselves representing Christ’s body and blood matter not, we give some amount of attention to everything surrounding them in our attempt to keep the eye single and reverent.