Everyone has to decide what works for them. A family with a car load of kids would certainly do better to pray in the car before dinner ... something about an outing winds kids up and getting them unwound to pray could be a problem. I have patterned what I do after my folks ... they have served 5 missions and pray everywhere. They are so good at praying in restaurants sometimes I even miss it. It is personal and humble and no less special for the place. They have prayed all over South America and continue here at home. I know that there were many reports after 9-11 of missionaries on their knees in airports and what a comfort it was to the people around them. In our town we have a community dinner the last week of the month for those that have more month than money. It is an interdenominational thing. At first they decided not to pray before dinner so as not to offend people ... our RS Pres felt it proper to pray in this setting and said so and ask why if they didn't want to pray in the public room they couldn't bless the food in the kitchen before it went out. This is now standard procedure. No one should ever be condemed for how, when or where they choose to pray ... that is between them and the Lord.
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