WAIT WAIT WAIT HERE A SECOND DAZED! Brian is an Elder again? How in the hell do you boink the presiding overseer's 17 year old daughter and become an elder again all within a 3 year period, and skip right over everything else?????? Whoa, I am totally blown away, I had no idea this had happened!
Ok, this is all so wild, seeing names from my past, and they're not even in a nightmare this time!
I was named after dear Mr. Petrowski (as he brought my parents into the "Truth") and I was disfellowshipped from the Ballston Spa Congregation. Which was totally absurd because I wasn't even in their territory and had never been associated with the congregation in my entire life. Also noting that I hadn't even been in association with any congregation for quite a few years, and my two witnesses were idiots who didn't even know me. Ok, that's all just my personal rantings.
I'm trying to think of who I know in the area beyond Saratoga Congregation. I was in Warrensburg for a short time in the early 90's......I know that Lou Foley served there for a short time when they needed help. What an idiot Lou is, of all the people I can remember, I'd like to forget him the most. What a pompous self promoting fool he was. I remember a convention where he sat up on stage saying how great he was, how he had done some work in Canada involving his cleaning business, and how he was praised by the IRS for correctly claiming all income involving that work. Since when does the IRS praise anyone, and guess what? You're suppose to claim all income made, so what made Lou so special?
who else was up there......there was this one guy who used to build log cabins, he was cool. I forget his name, but last I knew he was DF'd. My good friend Danny Parker worked for him for a while. He and Trudy were back and forth throughout the congregations between Warrensburg, Saratoga, Corinth, and Tampa Florida. I heard a few years ago Danny passed away. He was good people, and Trudy as well. I remember his son sprayed some pepper spray in the KH one thrursday night and cleared the whole place out, it was hilarious. He apparently thought it was breath spray or something, but it was great, haha I'll never forget that.
This molestation thing has me rattled as well with the Elders in Saratoga. I know they're misled and confused, and have done some downright wrong things, but this is a shock. I spent alot of time with all of them as a child and never had a problem with any of them. There was Paul Petrowski, whom I spent contless hours alone with. He used to take me hiking and everything. Don Gilmore used to take me fishing alone, no problem at all. Gary Harnish was an elder for quite a few years, and I lived at his house. Castanza I never dealt with much. Buddy (Lou) Foley I don't know about, I stayed away from him. Ernie Hord was an elder for years. Kennie Bixler, John baker, Joe Kondash.......ooohh oh oh oh, what was that guy's name that came in from Citrus Heights, California......managed the Little Caesars Pizza Place over by Jamesway? That guy was the pervert of the century, Dave something. He always talked about Sex in his talks, no matter what the subject matter was......There was Matt Woodruff, who wasn't an Elder.....he tried something with me out in the woods at a convention in Lake Placid, but I just slapped him silly and he took me back to our hotel.
As for Ballston Spa Congregation, I don't know a whole lot except they DF'd me, and I lived in Saratoga. The presiding overseer there I can't stand.....he looks like MR. Peabody. Ubanks, that's it. I heard he's not there anymore, but this guy is a piece of work. I was going through a divorce, and this guy was putting moves on my Pregnant wife!
I could go on with stories from there, but now I have to go do some thinking, this is all just so wild.
Saratoga Springs, New York
Congregation Refugee