On the first Sunday of the month (unless there is a Stake conference or general conference), we have a Testimony meeting, where members of the congregation can get up if they desire and share a short testimony. Some are definatly better then others. I have both been moved to tears by some and to near boredom by others.
Our services are similar to Protestant sevices except the members themselves do the preaching - not paid clergy(we don't have any). The Bishop gives out the subject matter 1 or 2 weeks in advance to 3 or 4 people and they give 'talks' on that subject (a gospel principle or scripture passage). Since we have Stake Conference next Sunday our Testimony meeting was last Sunday, very good spirit filled meeting until this one woman got up and rambled on for 15 minutes about not much in particular - of course she waited until the very last minute to go up and we went way over on time making our Sunday School class very short.
Sorry for the rant. I love our meetings but sometimes you never know whats going to happen with lay people doing everything. Luckily the good things always out weighs the bad things. I have only seen twice in 15 years where the Bishop has had to step in to clairify or straighten something out.
Last edited by mnn727; 09-02-2008 at 02:42 PM.
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