The closest Catholic church is much farther away, and there are a lot of masses to choose from.
The reason we change meeting times is that three to four wards attend the same meeting house, and in order for everyone to have a chance at an early start, the times need to be staggered, as each ward has three distinct meetings in a three-hour block. It was confusing when it was first implemented, but it works out very well.
We keep building meeting houses, but the church just keeps growing...
Yes, Tom missed Kathleen, and vice-versa. I missed Tom, too, and I’ll get to miss him again the next week, and then when they get back from Seabase, he has a backpacking outing planned with his friends who will go back to college in the fall. But that’s okay. I’m sure I’ve forgotten many things about how much space he takes up, his mood swings, and so on ;-).
I hope nothing prevents your getting to church tomorrow. I hate it when I can’t go, which is fortunately rare. Sometimes I go twice in a weekend, because I don’t like to miss the Spanish Mass.