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 ho
For the following questions, I asked a woman by the name of Gretchen and received the following answers. For the first question, if you have a deity, give the name? She answered, "Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost." For the second question, in your religion, how are you supposed to act toward other? She answered, " We don't discriminate against other churches and we accept all people. We're supposed to be charitable and do service for others whenever moved upon to do so. We should be kind to all people." The third question, what are humans and how did they come to be? She answered, "We believe in Adam and Eve and that god put them here, we are beings with a body and a spirit that has the potential of being godly." The forth question, How do people get in trouble in your religion? She answered, "Well if you don't obey the word of wisdom, you can get into trouble. If you break the 10 commandments, if you don't obey the law of chastity, but anything really that would get you to stray from the right path can get you into trouble because God knows all of your sins." The fifth question, how do they get out of trouble, she answered, "To get out of trouble, you have to repent. W
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Approximate Word count = 810
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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