We are so not alone

Sure thing. Why do people bother to aggregate churches? One little home church affiliated with a denomination is bad enough in comparison to an itinerant preacher/healer with a bunch of voluntarily poor groupies. Hmm, was I just talking about Jesus or Saint Francesco? Either way, that’s a higher religion than the brick, mortar, and org. chart type.

Bruce, thanks for sharing that blog site. Boy, did I relate to it. That was so right on for me. This is not the same church I knew growing up. When I was 8 years old, I sat up stairs close to the choir in the tabernacle in Salt Lake City during a general conference. (btw, I was baptized in the basement of the tabernacle on my eighth birthday). Just before David O”McKay (the prophet at the time) got up to speak we sang, “We thank thee o God for a prophet.” The spirit was so strong and I had tears in my eyes feeling so happy that we had a living prophet to guide us in these latter days. I loved Jesus and had so much faith and believed in the church. David O Mckay signed my mission call to Austria. I had cassette tapes of talks by apostles, Hugh B. Brown, LeGrand Richards, and Paul Dunn. It just does not seem the same to me anymore and I don’t know what happened. Some would tell me, the problem is with me, but I don’t think so becuse people always told me how much they felt the spirit when I taught classes in church. I sometimes feel like members are like the people who pretended to see the emporers fine clothes when he had none on. I feel like screaming what the little boy says in the story, “But he doesn’t have any clothes on.”

I sat down during conference this afternoon and fell asleep. I woke up in time for Pres. Monson’s ending talk and it was so generic. I felt like it was just words that did not reach past the tv. Brother Utodorf talk was the only one that spoke with real power to me today.