Welcome to This is the Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from

real people who are practicing and living their faith every day.

I'm your host, Corinne Lee.

When I was growing up, we had some rules about our behavior at dinner.

No elbows on the table.

Always hold your fork correctly.

Put your napkin in your lap.

Wear a shirt.

I had a lot of brothers.

And no singing, absolutely no singing at the dinner table.

This last one, well, that rule was mostly for me because I kind of never stopped singing.

My dad has always been interested in instilling us with a sense of decorum and appropriateness

in social situations.

Like when he taught us all to answer the phone by saying, daily residence, who may I say

is calling, which was absolutely adorable when it came out of the mouth of my three-year-old

brother.

He sounded like tiny little executive assistants.

But there was one rule of decorum that he insisted on that I hated.

We were never allowed to address adults by their first name without an honorific in front

of it, even if they asked us to.

So we always put aunt or uncle in front of our relatives first names.

We always called our neighbors Mr. Miz or Mrs. and we always used brother or sister or

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