What meeting do you enjoy the most?

[Art Vandelay]

There has been plenty of bandwidth used up on CUF discussing all the reasons many church meeting are worthless boring, unproductive, guilt-ridden, etc. But I assume that those of us who keep going back to the LDS church must at least occasionally get something out of it. I always look forward to General Conference (to sit home all day in shorts and T-shirt watching TV feels like a vacation). The priesthood session is usually one of my favorite meetings, I also like sitting in Jr. Primary sharing time. What church meeting do you generally like the best?

PS For those more experienced than me is it best to avoid the Foyer the week after GC?

[ewth8tr]

Stake Conference (or any other mormon bye week).

[SeattleUte]

PS For those more experienced than me is it best to avoid the Foyer the week after GC?

I always look forward to GC, hoping something stirring has happened like Sister Beck's speech. Is still remember on CG, people were posting as it was going on, pissed, like they were watching the BYU-FSU game.

[Indy Coug]

Playing with my 2 year old daughter in nursery during the 2nd hour of the block.

[Fiyero]

Gospel Essentials, when taught by the missionaries with an investigator present. I'm not being mean, I really enjoy those moments.

[jay santos]

There has been plenty of bandwidth used up on CUF discussing all the reasons many church meeting are worthless boring, unproductive, guilt-ridden, etc. But I assume that those of us who keep going back to the LDS church must at least occasionally get something out of it. I always look forward to General Conference (to sit home all day in shorts and T-shirt watching TV feels like a vacation). The priesthood session is usually one of my favorite meetings, I also like sitting in Jr. Primary sharing time. What church meeting do you generally like the best?

PS For those more experienced than me is it best to avoid the Foyer the week after GC?

I love teaching primary but don't like sitting there through singing time and sharing time. Singing time is worse though, by far. Sharing time can be some good comedy on occasion.

I enjoy sacrament meeting. I despise Gospel Doctrine. I abhor elder's quorum. Luckily I've had young men's or primary callings non-stop for the last ten years and only have had to go to elder's quorum for a short time between callings. I love teaching the youth.

[KillerDog]

There has been plenty of bandwidth used up on CUF discussing all the reasons many church meeting are worthless boring, unproductive, guilt-ridden, etc. But I assume that those of us who keep going back to the LDS church must at least occasionally get something out of it. I always look forward to General Conference (to sit home all day in shorts and T-shirt watching TV feels like a vacation). The priesthood session is usually one of my favorite meetings, I also like sitting in Jr. Primary sharing time. What church meeting do you generally like the best?

PS For those more experienced than me is it best to avoid the Foyer the week after GC?

I don't like the meetings...any of them. I still go back each week though. I think it is difficult to extricate yourself from the Church.

[LiveCoug]

I would be happy if we just had Sacrament. GD and Elders Quorum do nothing for me.

[falafel]

I've recently been called to the Young Men's program, and I've really been enjoying those meetings.

[jay santos]

I would be happy if we just had Sacrament. GD and Elders Quorum do nothing for me.

I think they've reached a point where they do me more negative than good. I started skipping Gospel Doctrine regularly, and the GD teacher called me on it. He caught me somewhere and said he really missed me in GD. Ouch. I've used that line on countless people in my life but never have had it used on me. I told him my testimony is stronger when I don't go to GD. He looked at me with his mouth dropped to the floor.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

The meetings after Sacrament meeting that I'll be skipping this fall and winter to take my toddler daughter home so she and then my soon to be pregnant wife won't acquire H1N1. I find the nursery to be a cesspool of germs. People, at least in my ward, have no qualms about bringing sick kids to church and that pisses me off. Our primary class is bad enough, but the nursery is even worse. If I have one more kid come to class that looks like he's suffering through the early stages of the illness portrayed in Stephen King's The Stand I'm going to tell the bishop to press the case during sacrament meeting and through other channels that people should not bring their sick kids to church. Otherwise, we'll be going inactive during my wife's first trimester.

[Art Vandelay]

I've recently been called to the Young Men's program, and I've really been enjoying those meetings.

I concur, I have been in the priest's quorum for 9 of the last 10 years (the other year I was with the teachers). The randomness of a 17 year old hormonally-driven brain will never cease to amaze me.

[falafel]

The meetings after Sacrament meeting that I'll be skipping this fall and winter to take my toddler daughter home so she and then my soon to be pregnant wife won't acquire H1N1. I find the nursery to be a cesspool of germs. People, at least in my ward, have no qualms about bringing sick kids to church and that pisses me off. Our primary class is bad enough, but the nursery is even worse. If I have one more kid come to class that looks like he's suffering through the early stages of the illness portrayed in Stephen King's The Stand I'm going to tell the bishop to press the case during sacrament meeting and through other channels that people should not bring their sick kids to church. Otherwise, we'll be going inactive during my wife's first trimester.

My wife and I were basically inactive during the first 2 1/2 years of my son's life. We went to Sacrament meeting, and then straight home. My boy already had asthma and several moderate to severe allergies, and the last thing his immune system needed was more snot. No one notice or even cared that we weren't there (and I was glad for that).

[TheBYUGuy]

I think they've reached a point where they do me more negative than good. I started skipping Gospel Doctrine regularly, and the GD teacher called me on it. He caught me somewhere and said he really missed me in GD. Ouch. I've used that line on countless people in my life but never have had it used on me. I told him my testimony is stronger when I don't go to GD. He looked at me with his mouth dropped to the floor.

That Gosh Darn teacher!

I've been in my current ward for over 5 years, and we have always had sacrament meeting first, followed by priesthood/RS and then Sunday School. I have always thought this arrangement is great. Whenever someone brings up the "weird" schedule, I tell them that it was the prior regime's way of telling the ward that Sunday School is optional. Nobody else has ever tried to explain it, but it makes perfect sense. You will get asked in interviews if you do your best to go to sacrament and priesthood meetings, but nobody ever asks if you attend Sunday School. I call it a brilliant move by the previous bishopric to encourage people to attend the "important" meetings without having to find a place to hide for 45 minutes in between.

[byu71]

I enjoy the Saturday morning and afternoon sessions. I show up at the golf course with my radio and ear plugs. Everyone asks what game I am listening to. I say game, hell I am listening to general conference. I always get "really" and then after I lie and answer in the affirmative, they say, wow, I didn't know you were that religious.

It get's me a pass for about another 6 months when I once again convince everyone out at the golf course I am religius no matter what I do or say the rest of the time.