And here i am again. All LDS meetings, including funerals have been cancelled worldwide. This started about three weeks ago. Some are having problems with it, I am not. Part of the reason that the local people know the locals is because Mormon congregations are divided geographically, so you always go to church with people from your neighborhood. It isn’t a willful lack of desire to acknowledge you, it is that they are more concerned with the people they know who are there. It is a peeve of mine.
As for the funeral, the Bishop always makes that announcement, verbatim, and I have absolutely no idea why, and there is almost always way too much food for three funerals. Really, there should have been someone that told you. As a bonus, the food, including the funeral potatoes, is excellent. My parents ward (congregation) actually had an account with Honey Baked ham. It was an old ward that had a lot of people die.
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