Comments about ‘Yellowstone crowds pack LDS chapel’

Really? Someone actually thought this was worth publishing? (In other news, some random church in Colorado offered refuge to hundreds of tourists seeking the word of God.) Memo to DMNews: Not all of us care to know every little detail about the life and time, or times and seasons if you will, of LDS folk everywhere. But we do like reading your other stuff. Please keep the Church News in the Church News bin.

You should have skipped over the article then. That's what headlines are for. "Not all of us care", well, many of us do. Your comment was unnecessary.

I loved this article.

I read and enjoyed the article. I enjoy attending church in different locations when I'm on vacation (Bear Lake, Snowbird, Spain, etc.) and I've even been up there.

I, for one, appreciate public interest news stories, especially those that depict good-natured citizens gathering to share a common interest. Its not news because they are Mormon, its news because there was a large crowd in a small place and it uplifted the community. It would have been news even if it were Presbyterians, bikers, a soccer club, or politicians.

I didn't realize that many vacationers would be so dedicated to take time out to worship their creator!!!!

I worked in island park this summer and went to church one sunday at 9:00 P.M Aparantley they have three sacrament sessions during the summer and often they are always full!!

I went to Church one Sunday in Nauvoo. More like a stake conference with chairs set up all the way back to the end of the cultural hall. The meeting was well organized but huge. One priest but two sacrament tables and an army of senior missionaries passing the sacrament.

This is nothing but religion-lite for those who want to believe they are religious, without making the commitment to stay home and attend church in the real world. How better to break the Sabbath and yet feel good about merely by spending an hour in a church that one has no lasting connection to?

Clem | 8:13 p.m. Sept. 6, 2009

I guess people have different opinions of it means to be religious. Either way, is it really up to us to judge the intentions within a another person's heart when it comes to faith?

How judgmental can one be? If you don't stay home every weekend and go to church on Sunday, you're a sinner. Glad I don't live in your world.

The PRIMARY purpose of attending church is to renew our baptismal covenants by partaking of the sacrament. That can happen just as well in "a church that one has no lasting connection to" as it can in one's home ward.

Sunday in Bear Lake was the same. There were three sacrament meetings with a total of 3212 people in attendance. All the meetings filled the whole building - three times.
Next week we will be back to the normal crowd with mostly the local members.
They were great meeting for everyone in attendance.

How refreshing to be reminded that a vacation with your family, and a visit to another ward, is just as committed and 100% attendance at home. This story make me hope for similar coverage for the Mountain Man Outing in Fort Bridger next year. Great example of the spirit of the law. Next year, no ties please. Your on vacation.

On the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the Nags Head ward they have over 600 people for Sacrament on Memorial Day. Other summer Sundays it can be 300 plus members. It is a wonderful site to see so many members on a island filled with surf, sand and wind. I had no idea so many Mormons surfed and wind surfed. They come from DC , Utah and everywhere else. Good times.

Clem....I feel sorry for you.

One of my best memories of church is when our family attended a West Yellowstone ward. It was Fast Sunday. There I was with my little family. Then an old gentleman got up and bore his testimony. My husband turned to me and said, "Isn't that _____". I watched as he left the stand and sat down next to his wife. Stunned! I realized they were our friends some 10 years earlier who we had tragically lost touch with.

They invited us over for dinner to their son's vacation home where they too were visiting for the weekend. It was her birthday. We had a lovely afternoon discussing the gospel and catching up.

It was a wonderful and blessed Sabbath.

I live in Tarpon Springs, Florida. I wish I could have been there in person at that worship service.
The Hebrew children used to pray, "Next year in Jerusalem!" Now, until at least next Labor Day, I will be praying, "Next year in Zion!"

My parents live in Jackson Hole. This story just confirms that the place was filled with tourists from Utah which is why I didn't travel up there over Labor Day weekend. Don't get me wrong. The economic life-blood of the area is tourism, but I will wait until after Labor Day to travel back home so I can enjoy my visit without fighting the hordes.

You are right. This is not "news"... but it is folksy. National news? No. Local news? No.

Religious news, of the Mormons, yes. Makes them feel... well... special. DN has done its job.

I'd be curious to see the attendance numbers in West Yellowstone and Gardiner, Montana, which are both located at major entrances to the Park. The headline of this article said "Yellowstone" crowds, but Island Park is a fair distance from the Park. I live in the Bozeman Stake, which inlcudes Gardiner Branch. I'll have to ask around...