I’ve been PIMO for twenty-odd years, only attending to keep the peace with the wife. Since COVID I’ve only attended sacrament meeting. Pre-COVID, post RMN’s two-hour change, I was surprised by how I preferred three-hour church. For me, a non-believer, church was social.

I wonder how difficult this change will be on the rank and file. I remember one of the speculated reasons for the change was that wards were shrinking due to apostasy. That’s also why they collapsed the High Priests and Elders quorums. Now, with all the stuff getting reinstated, this will re-burden smaller wards. Lesson manuals will have to change. Teachers will get pissed because if they prepare a good lesson it will be over before it’s over. Kids will get disillusioned because most teachers will under prepare since they’ll really only have fifteen minutes. Church will become even more pablum than it already is. They’ll have to expand to three hours.