Testimony Meeting

I've always wondered why testimony meeting in many family wards is a long dragged out silence.  I'm sure that its not because they do not have testimonies.  Perhaps its the fact that we are all fasting and therefore have terrible breath.  Then again it could be the fear of getting up and speaking to an audience, unsure of what we will say.  Maybe we think they already know what we believe.  Whatever it is, the same problem seems to be complete reversed in a singles branch/ward.  This is indeed a strange phenomenon.  I look forward to having a missionary who bears their testimony all the time.  Maybe I'll get to hear a testimony more often.