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Show S"3 3< keeping the law that excommunicated members must not take the sacrament although everyone must have noticed as she sat there before the congregation, shaking her bowed head and coloring when the t r a y was offered to her.) My mother felt compelled by conscience to confess her s i t u a t i n n to the stake president. He was a kindly man who nodded his understanding but warned that there 'might be trouble i f . ~ pressure, on her #)a.S 1%* CLsfanislu+iA Tltf rM.i~ others found o u t . ' fax additiond^my father had taken on two new wives, widows of a man who had acted as bishop of the Montana ranch. My mother i n s i s t e d that my father only acted as 'counselor' to them - t h a t he helped them solve their problems with children and finances and that their for commitment was'Hiime alone and not e t e r n i t y (for they had been sealed to t h e i r husband.) But the younger of the widows had formed an attachment for my f a t h e r that exceeded the i n i t i a l agreement. My mother had winced a l i t t l e as she described the new family arrangement. Danny, .ignoring the mandate against intercourse except for the purposes of reproducing (or perhaps not knowing about i t alt a l l - as indeeji, I did not know about i t until I asked myl mother, "Does he sleep with them, Mama?) joked abou-J i t . " I ' l l just the couch wi And h i s wife rejoined, bet he counsels th em.A"Right on th them, l i k e aky good counselor." I was disturbed and strangely jealous. My ijiothers had shared him for so long! It teeemed u n f a i r that they would have to divide his time s t i l l more minutely. \ couldn't bear to thi of him actualjU fnaking love to thtes£ women - no, he wouNl4/ not do t h a t . Th%.t wasn't my fath< |