Rumbling On...
We have a mentally challenged Member that gets up each Sunday to bare what he considers his testimony. He is always the first to get up and takes up the most time, but the main problem is... what he talks about is cable, phones, his appointment calendar and so on - nothing spiritual. The leadership lets him go on and on without stopping him. If you were a leader what would you do?
Well, if I were the leader I would counsel him beforehand as to what is appropriate for sacrament meeting, and if he does not get it while up there then I would stand behind him and say something to the effect of, "Remember where you are and what you need to talk about or please sit down". Now the leadership says that they have done the first, but the second they do not do - they feel it is his 'testimony', but I do not know if I would call it that at all.
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We have a mentally challenged Member that gets up each Sunday to bare what he considers his testimony. |
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If you were a leader what would you do? |
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Now the leadership says that they have done the first |
Wow some of you guys are brutal. I wonder how annoying I get during Sacrament meeting. I still love you all though.
I laughed when the children getting up and walking around was brought up. It's so true and this must be a problem world wide. However, I will say I look forward to being that father who takes his child out to calm them down. I see parents do it often, and I just know my experience as a father will not be any different.
I will admit though that I, being young at heart, have the occasional mess ups and bother my wife by poking her rib or moving the hymn book up and down so she can't read the words. But she pinches my arm and tells me to behave. I think I might have ADD.
I loved this thread, because these things do accure every Sabbath.
The cel phone thing is probably my biggest pet-peeve. The other day my husband and I went into a store together and a salesman asked us what kind of cel phone we had. Not "if" we had one, but what kind.
My husband replied that we were rather proud of the fact that we didn't own a cel phone.
Every time I go to the temple, the matron makes the request for people to turn off their cel phones. I still hear people's phones go off in the dressing room. My husband tells me that in one session he was in, someone's cel phone went off during the session ... twice.
As if going off once isn't enough, it's the worst when the person doesn't abashedly turn it off, immediately.
Sometimes I think that the purpose of worshiping together as a community is to teach us tolerance and patience and charity about things that would otherwise just drive us up a wall.
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The cel phone thing is probably my biggest pet-peeve. |
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I say take away agency and BAN the phones from the Church |
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My husband tells me that in one session he was in, someone's cel phone went off during the session ... twice. |