Just wanted to bump this one up because I think it is good to understand how crazy this all is.
Yes in the hall I was going to and all through all my youth I was sent to doors that were scary, pedophiles were studied with I now know that as an adult. I can clearly remember there were a couple of very creepy men who came to the hall and were always trying to talk to the children no one stopped them. The hall I attended as a child had parts of it that were very drug infested with many creepy homes. I was sent there as a young girl at the age of 17, 18 with elder kids who were 13, 14 years old. No one checked on us, we were just told to work the block. Sometimes an adult would try to have us work house over house but not often.
When I moved out on my own I always went out as much as I could because I totally believed it all. I had this small beater of a car that really should have held at the most four people. The seat belt law was only for the people sitting in the front seats at the time. I would met on Saturdays and all the elders and others would drop off their teenagers at the hall and go home. It would leave me with 5 or 6 kids and I was at the most 20, or 21. They made this one stupid kid a MS and who did not have a car and he thought he was so powerful being a MS. They all piled into my car which could not hold them and then the stupid MS would tell me what to do. This went on for a month or more and I had it. I went to one of the elder dads and said 'look you have got to do something." Like going out in service yourself would help but I was to in fear of this elder to really say that.
Well the elder dad was pissed at me. He told me to handle it on my own and talk to all the parents. I was like I can't do that. The parents will hate me and the gossip that will go around will destroy me. The elder used Matt where it say to 'go lay bare your faults' yad, yad, yad. I was like this is not a fault but a problem for the elders. The kids do not want to even be out service but they just want to hang out. I just cannot handle them on my own you have go to help me. The elder said "NO".
So I went on my own and talked to the parents. They all hated me and I was scum for years because of it. At least it did stop the kids from going out in service. The MS kid left the truth and went apostate.
I am now the age of that elder who I talked to and I still cannot wrap my mind around his thinking.
I swear this religion is so crazy. In the hall I just left they are still doing the same thing. The COBE is so happy his young daughters go out in service. It is not safe, it just is not. There are pedophile through out our territory as well as in the congregation so I guess that explains it. If the elders allow pedophiles in the hall why do they care about outside the hall.
This religion is so crazy. If people would only wake up.
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