Comments on: A Sabbath “Sacrifice” http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/ Uplifting, edifying, and enriching reading by and for Latter-day Saint Women Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:18:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Michelle http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1798 Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:26:29 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1798 Jen, thanks for sharing that experience. I'm sorry to hear about your child in the hospital. Hope things are better! Jen, thanks for sharing that experience. I’m sorry to hear about your child in the hospital. Hope things are better!

]]> by: Jen http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1793 Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:49:00 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1793 I was displaced in London last week (for medical reasons) and attended church, thinking I would just stay the for sacrement meeting and felt quite justified in planning to do so. After arriving and listening to the heartfelt testimonies I was motivated to stay and ended up enjoying the relaxing three hours that a "visitor" enjoys without the pressures of my normal primary calling. I especially enjoyed conversing in English with the members and other visitors and kids. (Normally its Albanian at church). I really appreciated the experience of feeling the spirit and regrouping after a hard week of hospital stay for my child. I feel indebted to those who bore their testimonies of the joy the recieve from the gospel, although I didn't know them personally one bit. Church is great. I was displaced in London last week (for medical reasons) and attended church, thinking I would just stay the for sacrement meeting and felt quite justified in planning to do so. After arriving and listening to the heartfelt testimonies I was motivated to stay and ended up enjoying the relaxing three hours that a “visitor” enjoys without the pressures of my normal primary calling. I especially enjoyed conversing in English with the members and other visitors and kids. (Normally its Albanian at church). I really appreciated the experience of feeling the spirit and regrouping after a hard week of hospital stay for my child. I feel indebted to those who bore their testimonies of the joy the recieve from the gospel, although I didn’t know them personally one bit. Church is great.

]]> by: Michelle http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1729 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:55:50 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1729 Ana and JKS...thanks for your comments. It's wonderful to be able to have the Spirit be the same wherever we go to church. I have had similar experiences in other places -- even in Italy where I couldn't understand most of what was going on, but I could still feel the Spirit and the kinship with my brothers and sisters there. JKS, I understand that feeling of "needing" to meet with other members. That was one thing I missed when moving to Utah after being elsewhere for several years. I missed that feeling of completely relishing each other's presence because we were so spread out. But worshiping itself really is the same. If the good word is taught, the Spirit is there. Ah, the Church is just true! :) Ana and JKS…thanks for your comments. It’s wonderful to be able to have the Spirit be the same wherever we go to church. I have had similar experiences in other places — even in Italy where I couldn’t understand most of what was going on, but I could still feel the Spirit and the kinship with my brothers and sisters there.

JKS, I understand that feeling of “needing” to meet with other members. That was one thing I missed when moving to Utah after being elsewhere for several years. I missed that feeling of completely relishing each other’s presence because we were so spread out. But worshiping itself really is the same. If the good word is taught, the Spirit is there. Ah, the Church is just true! :)

]]> by: JKS http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1727 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:12:16 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1727 It really is a blessing to go to church. Sometimes it seems like if you have to sacrifice for it, you appreciate it more. One of the reasons why I wanted to raise my children where the church is a little less concentrated is because when I was growing up I really "needed" to go to church to be with other members and worship. And I really appreciated the once mid-weekly seminary and mutual activity. It gave me strength to be out in the world the rest of the time. What a great experience to have to travel so far and have it be worth it! I remember once trying to go to church on vacation and we could not ever find the chapel. It really is a blessing to go to church. Sometimes it seems like if you have to sacrifice for it, you appreciate it more.
One of the reasons why I wanted to raise my children where the church is a little less concentrated is because when I was growing up I really “needed” to go to church to be with other members and worship. And I really appreciated the once mid-weekly seminary and mutual activity. It gave me strength to be out in the world the rest of the time.
What a great experience to have to travel so far and have it be worth it! I remember once trying to go to church on vacation and we could not ever find the chapel.

]]> by: Ana http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1726 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:51:18 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/08/02/a-sabbath-sacrifice/#comment-1726 Love this post. We had a similar experience in Lake Tahoe earlier this summer. It seemed like the tourists (like us) made up most of the attendance there that day. But the Spirit was powerful. Love this post. We had a similar experience in Lake Tahoe earlier this summer. It seemed like the tourists (like us) made up most of the attendance there that day. But the Spirit was powerful.

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