Stake Conference schedule changed for Halloween

So pleased to see a SP acknowledge the cultural and social importance of Halloween.

Put a gold star by his name!

Just attend the meetings in your Halloween costume so you are ready to go right home and hand out candy.

I think I’ll go as a high councilor with a thirty minute talk prepared – that’s pretty scary! 😈 (And I won’t have to change!)

That’s pretty cool – good for you guys.

Attendance at the Saturday night session of stake conference is pretty miserable for our stake and I’m pretty sure my SP would do anything possible to increase it. On a related note, our ward has a very strong Halloween party tradition and it’s very well attended by members and non-members alike. Recently someone in Ward Council asked why we have a Halloween party and they got shut down pretty hard. My comment was that a Halloween party shows that Mormons are almost normal.

So did it get shut down right as soon as you made your comment?

Our ward has a party, too. Families decorate doors of classrooms and pass out candy trick-or-treat style and there are other activities. It’s usually not on Halloween because of neighborhood trick-or-treat, so the move doesn’t affect us in that way. And our kids are grown (the baby is a senior in high school). Nevertheless, I agree, trick-or-treat gives us a sense of normalcy and we will now carve our jack-o-lanterns, pass out our candy, and all the kids from school will say “Hi Mr. Jedi” and all that stuff.

Someone tried to shut our Halloween party down several years ago too, questioning whether we should be celebrating a non-Christian holiday that celebrates evil. We got the same result and the tradition has continued. That same individual did manage to shut down the New year’s Eve party though, I don’t recall why, but we didn’t go to that anyway.

DJ wrote

Someone tried to shut our Halloween party down several years ago too, questioning whether we should be celebrating a non-Christian holiday that celebrates evil. We got the same result and the tradition has continued. That same individual did manage to shut down the New year’s Eve party though, I don’t recall why, but we didn’t go to that anyway.

I love party crasher’s, as if Heavenly Father doesn’t like celebrations.

We quite literally only have two activities a year. Trunk-or-treat and Christmas. We really like that 10 month stretch from January to the end of October. It’s a nice healthy break from having to commune with the saints. :angel:

Someone tried to shut our Halloween party down several years ago too, questioning whether we should be celebrating a non-Christian holiday that celebrates evil.

I love it when people focus on the negative history of something to the point where it clouds their vision of what that something is in the present day. :angel: :angel: :angel: Seriously though, I always got a kick out of the “it’s devil worship” crowd. To me it’s kids getting amped over getting candy and the one time a year where I learn that the houses in my neighborhood aren’t vacant. I have neighbors. Who knew?

From the article LookingHard posted:

Now it’s basically a block party for every candy-seeking 9 year old within a 78-mile radius.

That’s funny. In my ward it’s an excuse for the priests to still go trick-or-treating with no shame and no costume as they visit each trunk a half dozen or more times.

Kid: Trunk-or-Treat!!!

Me: I heard you received your mission call. So… where are you going?

Roy, would this help?

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