Sometimes I wonder if people are called to positions so God can really test peoples faith and other things he wants us to have. The LDS church teaches that it should support its leaders and sometimes, it can be very hard. Not saying that there are a ton of leaders that are the extreme like Buttars, but I'm sure there are a lot of people that are learning patience, charity, and long suffering (lol) because they have such terrible leaders. On my mission, an AP was called, and I absolutely couldn't stand him. This AP was seriously crazy. I'm not kidding you. I did a split with him one time before he became AP and we talked to some random guy on the street in the rain for two hours. I didn't say a word, and this missionary talked the whole time. At the end, he tried to force the gentleman we were talking with to take a BoM. The man politely declined. This missionary began to cry, and did the worst acting job I've ever seen to manipulate the man. He began sob like a baby and then out of no where, he started to beat his head with the BoM the man didn't take to try and make him feel bad that he didn't accept. Granted, this missionary worked very hard, and knew the scriptures crazy good, but I always felt weird around him and I seriously felt the complete opposite of what I think the spirit feels like. Anyways, after he became AP he taught us at a zone conference and told us that we needed to repent for how we've read the scriptures our whole life, but not to worry because he would teach us how to read them right during his lesson. I was a Zone Leader at the time, and I had to convince about 4 Elders that were extremely pissed not to riot. I told them that he was in that position to test our faith. To this day I think I learned a lot from that experience and rather have it shake my faith, it made me think about things a little clearer. Anyways, I'm just rambling... Ok, bye.
