Daniel Peterson wrote: my least favorite. And it didn't feel especially high status, either.
While serving in an EQP I saw, heard, and served in ways I would have preferred not to have seen, heard, and participated in. (dang prepositions)
I'm sure that can be multiplied while serving in as in the High Council. No thanks for me. Just let me be a home teacher and one of the guys that puts away the chairs after sacrament and I'll be happy.
Runtu wrote:Most of the GAs I have known have been good and kind men, and they seem to have been sincere in their desire to serve God. But it is part of human nature to get a little "puffed up" as the scripture says, and a sense of entitlement can develop. So, we have President Kimball showing nothing but kindness and humility against the apostle who sent a letter ahead of a visit dictating the number, size, and variety of flowers acceptable in a flower arrangement; the direction of the A/C vents (away from the podium). Or apostles screaming at underlings because the phone isn't working, or profanely berating an ice cream delivery man for using the wrong hallway. Or demanding that the milk be kept at a specific temperature.
These things are human nature. I think where we get into trouble is expecting church leaders to be above such human frailty.
In apologetics however, bad behavior has to either be denied or defended. They would say that the Apostle who specified the flower arrangement simply has an inner wish to be a florist, rather than the overbearingness of a micro-manager. It is hard for them to admit such behaviors that would included human frailty.