In the congregation we used to be in, there was Elder A, who was the PO and head guy for years, but when he started getting a lot of complaints, he stepped down from being PO, siting lack of time, and put a younger, sincere and well liked elder in that position. We will call him Elder B. What Elder B did not know was that he was only the "figure head" and Elder A was in as much control as ever. When a sister complained to Elder B that her confidential information was being talked about by Elder A's family in field service, Elder B tried to do something about it and got no where. He tried going to the CO, who was in Elder A's pocket and got no where. Having heard similar complaints from others by now, sincere Elder B writes to the Society for assistance with the matter. Next thing he knows, he is not the PO, he is not an elder, he does not have any priviledges, not even to comment during meetings. Now Elder C, who is arrogant and does not care about the sheep is put into the PO position and dances to Elder A's tune just fine. Elder B finally gets his priviledge but does not feel he can stay in that congregation. The problem there is that it is a small town with only one congregation. So Elder B sells his house and moves to another city some distance away. The sister who made the complaint in the first place also sells out and moves to another city.
Meanwhile, Elder D has gotten himself into a similar situation and found out that it does not matter if it is right or wrong, it only matters if Elder A says it does, so he too sells his house and moves to another city.
It was about this time that we started making our secret plans for the whole family to escape to another state.
Sometimes elders screw up when they try to do the "right" thing and find out it can't be done. The "good " ones don't last. They eventually find the EXIT sign.
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