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Date: May 03, 2016 05:08PM
Here's the better of the two mishie blogs I could find that speak to this issue:
"5-2-16
Well. Probably one of the craziest weeks yet. Things have really changed here. We had stake conference yesterday and it was crazy, seeing as all of Armenia is just one big stake so all of the members in Armenia gathered together in Yerevan, and Elder Katcher and Klebingat of the Seventy came to speak to us.
They announced that the Armenian stake will no longer be a stake. We have been moved back to a district under the direction of the mission. All of the wards, including Vanadzor ward, were changed back to branches. WOW.
They also released almost all of the leaders and called completely new ones. Well the members of Armenia were not too happy about that and about half of them got up and left in protest. Fights started, people were chanting, it was nuts. I wish I could tell you more but... if you want to know, just read Jacob 5. That is exactly what we are doing here.
Basically we are starting from the beginning. Things had gotten pretty bad and we are just pruning the tree so that it can grow bigger and bear fresh fruit. things will mostly be run by the mission president now and the missionaries.
The most important callings that they wanted to focus on is the ward clerk, so that none of this sketchy business goes on again. So they decided to have some of the missionaries serve as clerks for the branches, and of course, I got called to serve as the branch clerk for Vanadzor.
It will be very interesting to see how we will manage to do this as well as missionary work but the Lord will help me so no worries. More to come in the near future. We still aren't sure on which members are going inactive, which leaders will stay or anything. Lots of stuff going on, but it is all for the betterment of Zion in Armenia."
http://elderethanbradshaw.blogspot.com/In the other blog, the elder said it was 1/3 of the members, and he likened to the Lucifer leading away 1/3 of the host of pre-heaven...
http://skippertakesarmenia.blogspot.com/The thing about ward clerks doing 'sketchy' things... Could that be regarding fudging the numbers so as to get more money from Salt Lake? What else could ward clerks do to enrich themselves and/or their bishops?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/2016 05:10PM by Susan I/S.