Mormons

             The church that I visited was the Church of Jesus Christ and the Later Day Saints in Santa Ana, CA. When I first got there I walked around the church and read some articles that I found on the walls. One article read that this church was the second largest Mormon Church in the world. It took me a while to find where the service was and I noticed that there were several rooms that said Cultural Service room or something like that. Then I also noticed that almost everyone that was there was Hispanic. Which was completely different from what I had expected. Where the service took place was different from any other church that I had been to. There were no windows, no stained glass, no pictures, and nothing that would really make you think you are in a church. There was about a three-foot high wall at the front of the church, where the pulpit was. There were eight rows of pews and then chairs behind the pews. The age was mainly middle age and the economic pattern looked to be lower middle class. When I first went in, I sat down, and then I realized that it was a service in Spanish, but there were some Caucasian men in the back wearing suits, and appeared to be the same people I see riding their bikes, that come to my house.
             At the beginning of the sermon there was a man at the pulpit and was talking about something, but I couldn't understand him because he was speaking Spanish. He was holding up a bronze basket looking thing. After he was done speaking a woman came up and sang in Spanish, but there was no music and no one else sang but her. After she was done singing, another man who I think was the main pastor came up and spoke for about a half hour. After he was done, another man came up and gave a prayer and then everyone left. One thing that was interesting that I have never seen in any other church before, was there were seats that people could sit in behind the pulpit where the speakers were standing. Usua
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