EXMORMON
When we finally arrived at church, of course Sacrament Meeting had already started. So we had to take a seat in the foyer and partake of the sacrament there. Actually I would just as soon have stayed in the foyer for the whole meeting if I could have, since in the foyer you can more easily get away with talking or drawing or reading. But we didn't have a good excuse to stay there -- not having any unruly toddlers in our family -- so as soon as the sacrament was over we went in the chapel.
There was an empty stretch of pew way up in the third row that apparently Mom and Dad had decided to go for, so the whole ward saw us come in late as we walked up to the front. Since we were one of the established, active families of the ward, it wouldn't do for us to slink into one of the back rows of the chapel even on Sundays when we didn't manage to make it to Sacrament Meeting on time.
Just across the aisle from us, occupying three whole rows of the smaller side pews as usual, was the Grant family. They'd moved here to Minnesota from Idaho a few years earlier, and always talked about how much it strengthened their testimonies to now be living out in the "mission field." With their eight kids ranging in age from teenagers to young primary kids, they were the largest family in the ward. Some of the other important families had five or six. We were in the next tier down with only three.
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