Posted by:
caedmon
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Date: September 23, 2017 10:52AM
After a Friday afternoon work meeting ended, several of us worker bees (all women) discussed our plans for the weekend.
One woman said she was going out to dinner with women from her ward to celebrate being released from their callings last Sunday. All except one women in her group who, after 6 years as YW president was called to be Relief Society president.
"Why didn't she tell them no?" I asked. They rest of the women present (all Mormons) looked at me like I had grown a second head. "Well, you're a volunteer! You have the right to say no!"
"Oh, we can't do that. It's inspired!"
"Even if it wrecks your family? My son's good friend's father was called to bishop and when I saw him later that week and joked that he should have told them no. He also said he couldn't say no. For the next five years, I had a front row seat watching his family fall apart - he was never home. Two kids got heavy into drugs and dropped out of school. The oldest daughter got pregnant by her druggie BF and married him while still in high school. The youngest son (my son's good friend) spent all his spare time at our house because he would be safe from the druggie brothers and was guaranteed a meal. The mom, already mentally unstable, ended up on high doses of anti-depressant. Inspired?"
The women had no answer to that.