Flowerchild

Yeah, he likes to be in the spotlight. I really like his counselors, we just talk to them (or should I say they talk to us) more than the bishop does. It seems like he doesn't talk to us because we don't help his "celebrity status". It really doesn't matter. My husband keeps telling me the gospel is true even though the memebers are not.

I'm not feeling bad about not having dinner with them. I don't care! I just hate it when church callings seem more politically motivated than spiritually.

He says stuff like . . "Our family loves each other so much because we never raise our voices" or "Our kids never get behind on homework, because my wife is so organized" "Your family can be at peace too if you have family prayer twice a day like we do" But you know, his kids are in elementary school! When my kids were little and all on the same schedule I thought my life was organized and perfect. But kids grow up and start making their own decisions and come and leave at different times. That makes it hard to keep up with the "checklist" It just seems he doesn't understand how anyone else lives.

It's not that he has dinner parties that we're not invited to ... it's like when we have a social event at church the only people he goes out of his way to talk to are the "elite" like past bishops the stake president and others who tell him how great he is. And when new people move in I hear his wife talk about inviting them over for dinner and it is interesting they only invite the ones over who were a bishop or something in their old ward.

So my bishop is so arrogant! He always, ALWAYS! uses himself and his perfect little family as the perfect example that everyone should follow, even though his oldest kid is in the 5th grade. What does he know about raising kids!!! We have people in our ward with REAL problems with their teens and adult children (around his age). All he does is kiss up to our Stake president and have special parties with the "elite" memebers of our ward. I know I shouldn't have these feelings and I feel really guilty, but I just don't know how to get over it