Church

Yes, you read the title correctly, I'm writing about church, yes LDS services.

Most of you have no idea, I have been going to church since I was in Ft Hood. So the first Sunday I was here in Ramadi I went. We only have Sacrament and its at 8:00 pm. There is one other lady that attends, her name is Linda and she is not in the military. The lesson for that Sunday Linda gave and it was on the Relief Society. The services aren't like anything that any of you are used to, it turns into a regular lesson with discussion from everyone. Afterwards Linda told me why she was here. Her and her husband live in Virgina, he is in the army and on Active Duty. He was scheduled to deploy here, Ramadi, so she applied for a civilian job so that they could be together over here. She got the job and within a few weeks of them both leaving for Iraq his orders were changed. He went to Afghanistan and she came here alone, its pretty sad. So she went on to tell me how excited she was that I was here and that she has been the only female member since she has arrived and blah, blah, blah... then she started crying. Oh boy. I didn't want to tell her she probably shouldn't be too excited, and No I was NOT going to do visiting teaching like she just had spent the last hour telling us all how important it is. (haha) Also, every Thursday we meet and play games or have a lesson. So this past Thursday was on how we should all be speaking with the members that aren't attending and get them to come to Church. Then once again visiting teaching is brought up. I'm sorry, but I had to say no. I just think it would be really odd to go to her room and she give me a lesson then I give her a lesson. Um... I'm a little new to this as we all know, but something about all that sounds funny to me. I guess I could do it so she would be happy and I would be at 100% for visiting teaching EVERY month. (HAHAHAHA)

Proof I went to Church...

The Marine that is to the right of me is not a member, but he comes every sunday just to play the piano for us. He is a Colonel, and I'm sure has a lot of important things he could be doing instead of playing the piano, but it never fails, every sunday he is there. He plays very well and it is much appreciated!!!