Life By Lindsey Rae

Today we went to our new branch for the first time. (For anyone who might not know what a branch is, within our church, we divide up our congregations according to where we live. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is exactly the same everywhere around the world, but obviously with almost 13,000,000 members world wide, we can't all fit in one place. So, we are divided up where we attend church into smaller groups, according to where we live. Usually we go to something called a ward, but if there are not enough people in an area to make a ward, it's called a branch. Which means, it's pretty small group of people, comparatively speaking.) There is one ward in Mt. Juliet, which Jerrod used to go to before we were married, but now we are living in the area of the Hermitage Branch. The Hermitage Branch covers quite a large area, land wise, in fact, it almost looks bigger than the Mt. Juliet Ward area. But, there is just not enough members of the church living here yet, so it remains small in numbers. However, we have heard it will probably become a ward in the not too distant future as the Providence area (where our house is) grows.

Anyway, because Jerrod used to go to church in Mt. Juliet and some of the people from our branch also did, he knew some people there already. They announced us and since it was the first time many of them had seen him back there, they kept calling me Jerrod's "new wife," which I thought was funny, since we have been married 2.5 years. It made me feel like we were just going to church for the first time after being newly wed.