My experience with them is that the more ambitious ones will dislike you if you are spiritually very strong because they see you as a possible impediment to their ambitions of promoting their close relatives or friends to eldership especially if they are clearly inferior spiritually, personality or education wise. It's all down to self interest, jealousy and infernal behaviour.
They don't want you to threaten the office they have assigned to a relative. In that congo there were a lot of such local politics and which elder would be the most influential.