It was Wednesday night, June 28, 2000 after the notorious Panty Sermon was delivered, we decided we were going to leave eventually but as soon as possible. The next night was the weekly-held Thursday night visitation. Visitation was when adults and young people broke up into groups to make house calls to new move-ins in the area, prospects who had already visited and/or others who had been missing church for whatever reasons, and more. It was the highlight of the younger children’s week. Each night of visitation, a different married couple or other teamed-up adults were assigned to care for the children of the parents who would be going out and visiting. The kids loved visitation nights. There were games, snacks and other sorts of fun activities for them. Some of the caregivers went above and beyond to provide the most fun possible. The favorite couple assigned to watch, was on the schedule for this visitation night and my youn...
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