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I have enjoyed and I continue to enjoy worshiping at home and blessing the sacrament for my family, but I really do miss being able to gather with others and not just our own household.
We had our second in person ward sacrament meeting today (with a 25 person limit, masks, social distancing, no singing, etc.) since church was shut down. I've also been able to take the sacrament on assignments visiting other wards and branches in the stake.
Each time I feel like there's something important about gathering that you can't get with your own household alone.
I'm not in a hurry to reopen meetings at building capacity, or to abandon masks and other precautions. The pandemic is real, and it's our responsibility to do our part to protect others.
But that doesn't mean I don't miss what I'm missing. For me one of the best things about church is that it forces me to be around people that aren't like me, and I think that's really important.
To me, the importance of the sacrament lies not just in eating and drinking the consecrated emblems, but in doing so with others that have made the same commitments to remember Jesus and keep his commandments and take his name on us.
Especially when those people are people that we might not otherwise choose to be around.
I admire the great lengths that leaders will sometimes go to to bring the sacrament to puerile that can't physically attend church. But I sometimes wonder if we place maybe too much importance on recieving the emblems and ignore some other important pieces.
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