BF... I tend to believe your story. Based on stories I was told in MTS here in the US, your stories ring true... I know there are doubts by some here. It is just that your story in another country is so different than the expectation in the US. ..."service" in developing countries compared to "service" in Western countries is like comparing apples to oranges cows...both are food but two different things entirely...
I have had opportunity to have correspondence and direct telephone conversation with a Third World Branch (India) and I will tell you that even they admitted that the way things are done in the local congos especially...and that the branch has to "work with" the local brothers to get them to act closer to what Brooklyn wants....a difficult task indeed.... as an example.....with such poverty in India..... bribery is a very very common happening with elders...even entire BOEs...esp if one family is the wealthy dominant family.....
Since I know when/where you graduated MTS, I can at least confirm that part of your story (though of course per your request cannot reveal it here...)...though one of these days I would still like to talk with you and compare notes...
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