Sunday, November 9, 2008

Way too much church

It started at 12:30 PM - a missionary farewell at our ward. A young man named Grant going to Houston East in a week or so. A lovely talk and we then left to attend out Young Singles ward(Editors note: I am neither young nor single) So we listened to talk and ward choir numbers (6) - not six numbers, just the number 6) and I fell asleep so doing two Sac Meetings has its silver lining. Then on to Sunday School. There are two classes each being vcery large because there is no Primary or young anything, just Sunday School. So neither of the teachers showed up today. TO me this was perfect. We just don't have Sunday School. BONUS!!! But it was not to be. One gentleman got up after a few minutes and said he would teach our class. Now we are in the middle of the Book of Mormon group of lessons and he could have just started tight where we left off last week but that was not to be as well. He announced he was going to lead a lively discussion on DATING. It was quite the Sunday School. Nows it would have been best to not have it. Better was having the dating discussion. Worst would have been the real lesson so I guess it was a fairly good draw.

Now the lesson was a true window into the collective soul of the Singles Ward. First, we started with a list of gripes, from the male perspective, showing what the boys (yes boys) felt were issues that the women had. Then the real venom, the women's perspective. Some of the comments were quite insightful. Some hilarious. And others just sad, the real reasons so many of these people are still single. I particularly liked the comments I labeled "From the Snippy Bitch" comments. There were many and from various parties. Snippy Bitch comments, they name is Legion. There were plenty of stupid male comments as well. His name is Legion as well. My favorite comment from the male was "If I call and offer to go on a date, my offer of date should supercede any girl's-night you may have already planned." No date for him!

Oh well.

3 comments:

DiaNe said...

So it's not just Utah that deals with the insufferable dating subject. Sorry you got a taste of it.

Happy birthday!

Lisa B. said...

Your post raises an interesting ontological question: what *is* too much church? Some might say that any church is too much; others might opine that any deviation from the norm is too much. Is the equation "missionary farewell" plus "extra sacrament meeting" plus "ancillary meetings" --is that what equals too much? or is it any amount of church plus young adult ancillary meetings--is that what's too much? I would like to see the math on this.

ABick said...

wow. that is intense. but i'm glad you got to observe it so that the rest of us can laugh along with you.