So I kind of got over the fact of this whole calling nonsense thing. When I got to thinking some more.
Why are they calling me to activities committee? I’ve only been to two activities out of the whole three years I’ve been there, due to the fact that I realized even as a TBM it was a clique I wasn’t going to be able to get in and I didn’t want to deal with that drama a second time.
So then I got angry again because I know exactly what they’re doing.
They call less active members to places where their attendance is poor so they feel guilty and obligated to show up.
And no, this isn’t just an angry exmo coming to an insane conclusion like this. I have heard from bishops back when I was a youth that they’ve done this, and I have heard multiple women complain, especially my mother, that they do this.
In their words they’ll put someone who never goes to third hour in a third hour calling, “to encourage that individual to be able to have proper attendance, and to help gain their testimony that this part of church is something important.”
They aren’t coming to this thing which is influencing their attendance and our image, let’s give them a calling there so they’ll feel guilty and obligated to go, and eventually get brainwashed to continue going.
Now, perhaps this has helped on occasion. But it mostly leads to people in callings suffering. Prime example was my mom as relief society president, with her trying to get the bishop to understand that having three inactive women as her counselors and secretary wasn’t working and she ended up having to do all of the work with them not showing up. His response was simply that she wasn’t having enough faith and wasn’t trying hard enough to have these women come, when he couldn’t have been more wrong.
It leads to the extreme TBMs to have to pick up the slack and suffer through it for God, which is really abusing these TBMs and their faith. They shouldn’t be taken advantage of like that due to their faith!
So I know why I’m in activities. Because I don’t go to activities. Well it’s too bad, because my classes and work run past when activities start, and I’m not about to drop classes and work simply to do this calling. I actually value my job and education.