Reverence and Irreverence

On the sweetness of Mormon life–

You are traveling.  You stop by a little branch for the sacrament, arriving in plenty of time before the meeting starts.  You walk in.  In the one-room meetinghouse, the branch is already seated, stone quiet.  It is the most reverent, quietest prelude you have ever seen in any LDS meeting, bar none.  No prelude music even.  Just absolute contemplation.

You smile and head to the bathroom at the back of the room.

When you come out, they are singing the closing hymn.

You were off by an hour.  Your quiet prelude was the end of testimony meeting.

The branch is amused.