Before our last daughter was married
this past June, she attended a singles ward in a building that had two chapels
and eight wards. Sharing the same parking lot was another LDS church with at
least one and possibly two more chapels, and who knows how many wards. When my
wife and I first moved here from Calgary, Alberta seventeen years ago we were
amazed to see for the first time two chapels sharing the same parking lot.
Crazy, but true. Nonetheless, the pioneers had this all figured out years ago.
To be honest, it’s been a way of life in Mormondom for over 150 years. During
the 1850’s, what city first boasted multiple meetings at the same time in the
same building?
A) New York City
B) London, England
C) St. Louis, Missouri
D) Salt Lake City
Yesterday’s answer:
A) Pray to understand English
Elder David O. McKay, while on a trip to
New Zealand in 1921, instructed the largely Maori congregation to pray for the
gift of interpretation because he could not speak their language. He later
recorded that many in the audience were blessed with this gift.
David O. McKay, Cherished Experiences from the Writings of David O. McKay, Compiled
by Claire Middlemiss (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976).
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