Hello Bob, You may be mixing up Temples and regular church buildings. Based on your description, you went to a regular church, not a temple.
-- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 12:51:31 PM, you wrote: BW> Hi, >> Wow, must not be in Utah. BW> France and England. When I was 14 I went with a school friend to stay BW> with our pen-friends in Reims. We were looking forward to 2 weeks of BW> binge-drinking and chasing French girls. Turned out our pen-friends' BW> family was Mormon. We were very disappointed. They dragged us along to BW> the temple on Sundays and we took communion. We were quite excited at BW> first, but they turned the wine into water. Even then I was an atheist. BW> Luckily they were not too strict on other dietary matters. They had bought BW> a teapot and some tea especially for us. They brewed up and served it to us BW> at 5 o'clock precisely every day, and watched while we drank it. BW> Later one of my friends - not a Mormon - married into a Mormon family. BW> The wedding took place in the temple in Leeds, UK. As far as I know, BW> nobody was excluded for not being a Mormon. Certainly all her family BW> and friends were there. The reception was in a different place. Very BW> strange, a wedding reception with no booze.
