Being Overlooked -
I've been dwelling on the matter of how our family has been overlooked in this new ward, we moved into last January. We have had to beg and beg for home teachers and still no one comes, and it's at the end of August, not one visit, we don't even know who they are. I had to repeatedly beg for visiting teachers. When I finally got a visit, several months after being in the neighborhood, when one of them came to the door she wouldn't come in and said "I'm lame, I don't do visiting teaching, I'm too busy so this is what you get" I stood there in total confusion. Seriously then don't accept a call to be a visiting teacher. Don't wait several months to finally visit and then insult the sister by saying your lame and don't do visiting teaching.
We've asked for callings, I've asked to be a visiting teacher repeatedly, and I've asked for help and have been totally ignored. I don't understand that. I don't understand a ward, especially a bishop who is in charge of a ward, who desperately needs people to fill callings, refuses to call willing and motivated and eager members to serve in callings. Does that make sense? No. We haven't transgressed to disallow us to serve, we go to church, we pay our tithing, we have family scripture study and prayer. So, why would a bishop not want to put good members to work serving in his ward? I can only think of one reason, he has a thing against people who rent, which we do. I have had this experience before in another ward years ago, the bishop never did call us to anything. It's strange. I am so hurt by the fact that somehow somewhere this ward's leadership for some unknown reason doesn't think it's important to fellowship and support this family. How awful.
I just found out that the home teachers I've been begging for to visit us, fellowship us, love and care for us is the bishop himself. Seriously what bishop would totally dis a family. We have gone to him requesting home teachers and he got seriously defensive and at that time we didn't know he was our home teacher, we were soooo confused at his reaction, now it makes a little sense, he must be feeling a little guilty, not enough to come and be our home teachers but enough to be defensive and rude.
I hope that this is an isolated situation. I hope other families don't have to feel sooooooo neglected and ignored. I know that's not how I feel and believe that Heavenly Father and Jesus want their faithful servants to feel or to be treated.
All I can think of and am determined to do is to move away from such poor treatment. Maybe church isn't worth going to here. It is a sad day when the leadership in this ward are so insensitive and disrespectful to it's members. I'd really like to call him on it and make him repent, but I don't think it's worth the effort. Anyway. I'll be alright. (once we move)
Monday, August 24, 2009
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