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 Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:06 pm
Hey everybody and welcome to today's meeting. I hope that everybody has had a great week!
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:12 pm
Hey, I'm here. My week's been awesome, I finally finished my final.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:17 pm
That's great news. I just spent the day with my aunt and uncle from CA and it was a very good day, I haven't seen them in like 5 years so it was nice to see them again.
Do you have anything that you would like to discus this week?
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:20 pm
That's cool.
Well, I've been having some problems with my ward, so maybe if we could talk about that, it would help me out a little.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:21 pm
sure thing. What seems to be the problem?
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:25 pm
Well, we've lived in this ward for three or four years now, and over these past few months I've just suddenly started to feel very alienated from everyone. I feel like I don't belong and I find myself not wanting to have anything to do with them. I'm still willing to help them out and I still want to go to church and fulfill my calling, but I feel rather distanced from the ward members and I wish they would leave me alone.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:41 pm
I'm sorry, my computer went crazy and froze on me. But I think that it's better now.
I know kinda what your going through. I went through that the other year. I had to keep telling myself that they are my ward family and that they can help me grow in the gospel. And from that thinking I tried to get more involved and interact more with people, even though it was kinda akward. It's not going to like be an automatic fix, but it can help you start to a fix.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:44 pm
I don't know if they will help my spiritual growth, though. I don't feel like I can trust them. I don't feel safe around them.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:46 pm
ok. let me try to get a better feel of the situation. like what is do you think is causing your alienation in the ward? like is it the personalities of the others or something else?
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:49 pm
I'm not really sure, that's what puzzles me. I just suddenly felt this way one day. I used to have a really strong desire to belong to the ward family but now I feel completely the opposite.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:50 pm
Was there anything that happened that would have reversed your desire?
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:54 pm
Well, one thing that happened around that time was the ward talent show, and they asked me to put together a display for it. I felt really embarrassed after that and I felt like I revealed more of my private life than I'm comfortable with sharing with most people. So now whenever I see someone from the ward, I feel sort of vulnerable because they know more about me than I wish they did.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:59 pm
Ok. Well that's not too bad. er, well, maybe it could have been. But that's something that you could rise above, and now they know something special that you can do. We are given different talents so that we can build on them and make them grow, not to bury them and hide them somewhere. Not that I'm saying that it's always easy to put out a part of your personal life.... I'm not sure I'm making much sense, but I hope it helps a bit.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 6:05 pm
I guess... I dunno, the less people know about me the less room there is for misunderstanding. I feel like I accidentally let them inside my mind.
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 6:10 pm
Yeah, not really, it's easier to understand a person when you know more about them, like what kind of mind track they have and stuff. Just think about your family, they know all about you and they are probably the people you will be closest to in your life. But it is understandable that in public it is hard to open up, to strangers, and let them see what your like.
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