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Date: December 09, 2018 09:20PM
Attendance was down a lot. Talks just "so so." High Council man was explaining to us in 2 weeks we only have a 1 hour meeting on account of Christmas. He said that should bring lots of people out. I thought that was strange. So is the push now on for 1 hour meetings on Sunday.
When Sacrament meeting is over people there is little interaction with each other. It was like the end of a funeral and people not knoiwing what to say or how to repond.
Every week there are changes in callings and few people show up to get sustained. So we do not know who they are.
People, I mean the saints, looked stressed out.
We had a Christmas party Friday. Nice dinner, but no Christmas program. Very strange. Bishop spoke to us about doing service over the holidays. That was the program.It was like no one knew it was Christmas. Lots of the regulars did not show up for dinner.
As I drove home after Sacrament meeting I looked at the Church parking lot and looked at the temple. I had a vision of Sears closing shop.
Go back 60 years and we as a family enjoyed going to Church. It was fun on Sunday talking to everyone. No one wanted to leave. Everyone had something to say to everyone.
One last thing. The building is freezing cold. Even Friday night it was cold. I asked the Bishop is he knew how to turn the heat up and he said no it's controlled from SLC and they, meaning his Bishopric did not know the by pass codes.
I am suspecting that the cold building is a money saving technique. And that is also why they have gone to 2 hours too. To save on heating and cooling. Sears stores did the same thing. We also do not run all the lights in the chapel now either. It's been like that for last month or so. The whole building is freezing.
Are other wards like this now?