Posted by:
93annivette
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Date: July 25, 2011 11:52PM
The elder's quorum president of our ward called the police from our ward during a Christmas sacrament meeting to report that I had committed the crime of endangering the welfare of our daughter. I was subsequently arrested, fingerprinted,etc and went through the hell of legal proceedings in which I was completely exonerated of all charges. The church, however, left the idiot in his position. The best the SP could tell me was to "get a good attorney." The Bishop of the Ward was from the mormon colonies and had a big attitude problem- his brother had 8 kids and come hell or high water he was going to have 8 also. Even though his wife was not on board with the idea. He stood pounding at the pulpit one Sunday saying-"these meetings are not optional." And unless his kids were on their death beds his wife was expected to get them all to church. I could go on but you get the picture. After the incident we had to make a decision as to what to do so we decided to try another ward. But they made it clear we were not particularly welcome and should return to our old ward. Some were amazed I even stayed in the church. We had been sealed and I had served a full-time mission and we had 3 children. But we stayed. It's many years later now and we no longer are active. The experience embittered us and we no longer trust the church leadership or many of it's so called Saints who are anything but.