Church

Having been inspired by this post from Miss Nemesis, I decided to share a little bit of my Sunday experience.

It was fast and testimony meeting at church this past Sunday. We are supposed to testify of Jesus Christ and other basic principals of the gospel. I wish I would have been taking notes. This was truly inspirational material.

There was the lady, the very learned one, the one who has had a career, obviously way smarter than your average church goer. To prove it, she talked about how you can know that other things that are not church related are true, like a math book and things that you learn from that. I personally have never had a testimony of math, but it seems to always work out; especially with a calculator. She next went on to point out that she had been filled with the spirit while seeing Les Miserables the day before. But again, she had to prove she was learned by pulling her French accent out. Because it is not the correct pronunciation without the French accent. She testified of the truth of Les Miserables. Right.

Another guy, who reminded me of a guy that I dated, a long, long time ago. The self-righteous one. The one who got up and talked about what a good example he was and used to bear his testimony and use analogies of computer software. That wasn’t this guy, this guy got up and said he thought those who were bearing testimony were really great people and spiritual to boot. Then he used lots of big words and talked about his favorite class at medical school which was neuro-something and blah, blah, blah. I could not listen anymore.

There were some really good testimonies as well. Very touching, they were the minority. I find that sad. I want to hear people testify of what they actually know that is faith based. I am tired of the gibberish.


2 Responses to “Church”

  • Sarah M Says:

    I agree. The most incredible testimonies I’ve ever heard were ones out of state, particularly California. My dad would always make us go to church on vacation, and as you can imagine, it was quite the fight, but I always found it 10x better than Utah church. There, it seems as if they are members because they love it and believe it, not simply because they grew up with it like it seems so often here.

  • Annie Says:

    Well, I want to bear my testimony to you that, regardless of what people say, Las Vegas is a true city of God. I mean, the mormons settled there and even named the Joshua Tree after the ancient prophet so it must be a good city. I think that, while I’m there, I don’t have to wear my g’s and I can drink and gamble. I mean, everyone else is doing it why can’t I?

    Makayla, I loved this post and couldn’t agree with you more. I’m glad that we were in sin city and missed it. There wasn’t any talk of ipods or brightly colored shirts this month? How sad.

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