Religious Worship and Covid

[Deleted member 365]

How has covid affected your religious worship? If you attend church, what changes have been made to safeguard against Covid? My wife and I haven’t attended since March as we have some health concerns. But we’ve enjoyed having the intimacy of a private study session on Sunday and without the stress of callings. There are things we miss obviously. But I’ll admit it’s actually been a lot nicer than I thought.

 

[Deleted member 365]

I also saw this on social media. This seems... disturbing.

 

[Gameface]

Imagine being so brave that you passionately stand for not wearing a mask, because... I'm not sure.

 

[Miggs]

Gotta watch out for those Natzis.

 

[Avery]

And if someone dies, well, God works in mysterious ways.

The world laughs at us every day and how brainless Americans are.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Whoa jeez. There’s more! Imagine being worried about your religious leaders enforcing masks at church because they’re medical experts during a pandemic or bragging about not wearing a mask in an old person ward.

This is unreal.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Anyway, I’ve also enjoyed going up to the beautiful utah mtns and enjoying nature.

 

[infection]

I regularly attend (pre-COVID). Haven't been since March. We've got 5 kids, and while we've still done it at home, it's obviously quite limited. For a couple months they've been doing limited monthly meetings and we haven't attended. Don't have an opinion for or against. We didn't want to mess with the headache of a bunch of young kids wearing masks. We were asked to go last month for my son to participate, but as we were getting ready we discovered that nobody's clothes fit anymore. Something we haven't thought of. Otherwise my wife is in nursery, and my youngest son just went into primary and has some really bad anxiety, so I spent that time working with him, so going to church for us has been going through the motions for a while. Life's been pretty crazy for a while. We've got 4 kids going to three different schools that have different start and stop times, I've been working three jobs, and life is chaotic, so we've enjoyed doing this from home.

 

[Deleted member 365]

I regularly attend (pre-COVID). Haven't been since March. We've got 5 kids, and while we've still done it at home, it's obviously quite limited. For a couple months they've been doing limited monthly meetings and we haven't attended. Don't have an opinion for or against. We didn't want to mess with the headache of a bunch of young kids wearing masks. We were asked to go last month for my son to participate, but as we were getting ready we discovered that nobody's clothes fit anymore. Something we haven't thought of. Otherwise my wife is in nursery, and my youngest son just went into primary and has some really bad anxiety, so I spent that time working with him, so going to church for us has been going through the motions for a while. Life's been pretty crazy for a while. We've got 4 kids going to three different schools that have different start and stop times, I've been working three jobs, and life is chaotic, so we've enjoyed doing this from home.

i can’t imagine what it’s like for our ward. We had something like 300 nursery-primary aged Kids. All I know is that we had 5 nurseries and 2 primaries and the 3 times we went to sacrament meeting, it was hard to hear anything. I think they were getting ready to split the ward. So maybe things are better? But wow, I can’t imagine what It’d be like trying to wrangle kids with masks.

If the pandemic ever ends and we go back to church, it’ll be like we’re new members again as we will have only attended 3 times prior to the pandemic shutdown.

 

[Deleted member 365]

I regularly attend (pre-COVID). Haven't been since March. We've got 5 kids, and while we've still done it at home, it's obviously quite limited. For a couple months they've been doing limited monthly meetings and we haven't attended. Don't have an opinion for or against. We didn't want to mess with the headache of a bunch of young kids wearing masks. We were asked to go last month for my son to participate, but as we were getting ready we discovered that nobody's clothes fit anymore. Something we haven't thought of. Otherwise my wife is in nursery, and my youngest son just went into primary and has some really bad anxiety, so I spent that time working with him, so going to church for us has been going through the motions for a while. Life's been pretty crazy for a while. We've got 4 kids going to three different schools that have different start and stop times, I've been working three jobs, and life is chaotic, so we've enjoyed doing this from home.

Are you having lessons are home? Are you using the Come Follow Me lessons? Are you going outside? What does your worship look like?

We’ve definitely gone to conference talks on the phone and car rides to try to break things up on Sunday. Staying inside and reading is nice but gets old.

 

[gandalfe]

My father is a retired Episcopal priest. His local parish has had troubles keeping a regular priest, so he has often been filling in while they work on hiring a new one. This was the situation when COVID hit. They haven't had service since. Which is a shame for me, because we're planning to bury my son who died on March 1st in the garden they have there, and we haven't been able to.

 

[infection]

Are you having lessons are home? Are you using the Come Follow Me lessons? Are you going outside? What does your worship look like?

We’ve definitely gone to conference talks on the phone and car rides to try to break things up on Sunday. Staying inside and reading is nice but gets old.

Previous to COVID we would break the Come Follow Me into short, quick lessons a few times through the week and wouldn't necessarily do anything super structured Sunday. We've shifted a bit where we're doing most of that lesson Sunday and not doing as much during the week. We do sacrament followed by short lesson. Limited attention spans. We have a 12, 10, 6, 4, and 2 year olds so it's hard to keep everyone engaged at the same level. It's also hard to get some of the younger ones to wear clothes.