Splitting the Ward

Our ward (congregation at church) has a goal to spilt the ward into two wards in three years.  This has been a topic of conversation in some of the adult classes for a little while know.  On Fast Sunday as someone bore their testimony and talked about splitting the ward, North came and sat on my lap and started asking me a lot of questions.

What does splitting the ward mean?

How do they do it?

Does on half of the room go to one ward and the other go to another?    (I hope I'm on the same half as Sam.)

Who decides where the split is?

What about the people in the middle?

Is our whole family going to be in the same ward?

I'm going to ask Dad about splitting the ward.

Why are they going to split it?

He was a little concerned about this idea of splitting the ward.  I tried to answer all his questions the best I could to the ability that a 6 year old could understand, and I thought he understood and was okay with the idea.

Then came this Sunday.  We have a missionary that left here to go into the MTC on Monday, so we spoke in church.  He challenged the ward to really work on missionary work while he was gone serving his mission, so the ward would be able to split when he got home.  When North heard "split the ward"  he was back on my lap, this time with a concerned comment.

"Mom, I don't want them to split the ward because then the people in

the other ward will not be in the true church."

To which, I looked at him and asked, 

"North, what if we are in the other ward?"

He got a very concerned look on his face and said,

"I am going to talk to Dad about that."

For those who don't know, Cody is the bishop of our ward right now.  I did reassure North that both wards would be part of the true church still.

This did remind me of the time when we were at church with Misty on vacation and North said, "Mom, I know this is not the true church."  I think he thinks our ward is the only true church.  He was a bit younger then, so I told him any church that had the same hymn books as us was the true church.  It may be time to help him understand a bit better.