20 years of public speaking and you were still giving talks in the 2nd school?? Wow, you must have been a sh*t hot speaker.
The elders were upset with me because I made an issue out of the parking scam, I told off a CO for raising $100,000 from the congregations in our city to buy a new RV and truck that he did not need while an elderly sister was homeless because her old shack of a house burned down and I thought the CO could go a few more years with his ONE year old RV and truck and give the money to the sister instead, I went to James Island for Hurricane relief and they took us to a rich brother's house and had us clearing trees off of his 100 acres and I said "I didn't come up here to be a ranch hand on the Ponderosa, I came up here to help people in real need, I'm going to go find some people to help" and the elders told me I couldn't do that and I just laughed and started walking toward an area we had passed where there were houses with trees in the living rooms and I helped an elderly lady get the tree out of her living room. The elders tried to 'scold' me for leaving 'the arrangement' when they caught up with me a few days later and I told them they didn't have any power over me and I would do as I pleased. Well, there were other reasons, but you get the idea.