Hey Everyone!!

[jstn1040]

Originally Posted by tubaloth

Welcome! Have you asked your friend for a book of mormon? We kind of get them by the pay load in the church, pretty much every mormon has a celler full of them just waiting to give them out. (Okay I'm being sarcastic) but believe me, it wouldn't be hard for your LDS friend to get hold of a copy of the book of mormon! Unless you like reading it online! But at least copy of the book of mormon has pictures in it!

Keep reading it! Keep following this feeling you are having! I do suggest you at least get ready to go to church some time (did she tell you its 3 hours?) you can figure out if you want to go that long for your first time.

Thanks for the warm welcomes everyone! Yeah she did tell me it's 3 hrs...which is new to me because i'm used to a typical catholic mass which is 45minutes to an hour haha. I told her again how one sunday i'd go..I have a question I went on mormon.org and did a search for a nearby meeting house it looks like my assigned one isn't the one that she goes to...even though its in my county which is weird. She also told me that you break down into groups after sacrament based on age and whatnot...i'm 23yrs old and a single male so what group would I go to? Anyways thanks for the info

[Islander]

Welcome jstn1040:

Yeah, after sacrament we have Sunday School and a third hour dedicated to study in groups as well. You will go with the brethren and gather with the priesthood.

A note: in ancient Israel, most people did not live in Jerusalem. But if you happened to live with three days-travel time then you would come and offer sacrifices several times per year. A visit to Beit HaMikdash or the Holy House took several hours. For ones, there may be several hundred people trying to offer sacrifice that day as well. Afterwards, you would go to the courtyard and pray for a half an hour or so by yourself and then meet your wife, if you were married (who was on a different courtyard) at the gate.

On the Sabbath you would go to the synagogue at sundown for 2-3 hours, go home and eat lightly and go back several times during the night depending on the time of the year, how many children you had, their ages and the like.

So, the Christians in the Roman empire had a "light version" of the Sabbath. I think there is evidence that the apostles did not want to burden the rest of the disciples and the saints with long meetings and rules and preferred to concentrate on the faith building tasks of reading the scriptures, preaching to them and caring for the poor and the weak.

Yes, it is a bit longer than your typical RC mass.

[utcowboy]

Welcome, I hope you enjoy yourself here

[Maya]

Well come jstn and happy studying! IMHO a visit in the Church might be worth it!