I didn’t know that this commandment could really be a problem for a teen-ager, but it was for me.
How holy was I to keep it.
Go to church and then go to a second Sunday Service in another ward?
Did keeping the Sabbath Day holy mean no shopping, no swimming, no movies. Nothing that cost money?
Marilyn, Else and I did find a scripture that said keeping the Sabbath day holy meant visiting the sick. So we would go down to the General Hospital, look at the list of Latter-Day Saints who were in the hospital, and then go from room to room, introducing ourselves and cheering up, (we hoped) the sick.
I wonder now what people must have thought. Well, there you have it. My teen-ager take on keeping the Sabbath Day holy. To extrapolate a bit on awards associated with attendance at regular church meetings, when I was in my teens, the boys were offered a set of scriptures and a trip to Salt Lake City if they would have 75% attendance at their Sunday Meetings and 50% attendance at the one weekly meeting. Marilyn, Else, and I were 100%-ers, but being of the wrong gender, we never got a copy of those scriptures, nor the trip.
We did, however, make a lot of hospital visits.
Arta <
How holy was I to keep it.
Go to church and then go to a second Sunday Service in another ward?
Did keeping the Sabbath Day holy mean no shopping, no swimming, no movies. Nothing that cost money?
Marilyn, Else and I did find a scripture that said keeping the Sabbath day holy meant visiting the sick. So we would go down to the General Hospital, look at the list of Latter-Day Saints who were in the hospital, and then go from room to room, introducing ourselves and cheering up, (we hoped) the sick.
I wonder now what people must have thought. Well, there you have it. My teen-ager take on keeping the Sabbath Day holy. To extrapolate a bit on awards associated with attendance at regular church meetings, when I was in my teens, the boys were offered a set of scriptures and a trip to Salt Lake City if they would have 75% attendance at their Sunday Meetings and 50% attendance at the one weekly meeting. Marilyn, Else, and I were 100%-ers, but being of the wrong gender, we never got a copy of those scriptures, nor the trip.
We did, however, make a lot of hospital visits.
Arta <
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