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In Reply to: Re: For Christina: about our Shake Up 2000 experiences posted by Cristina on May 06, 2002 at 11:49:48:
That's a good illustration about the cat and mouse.
The leadership in Japan was about to send my son to a victor home in 1988 and they intended to crush me as well as I had openly voiced opposition to some policies and decisions.
A team of leaders (the wife of the NAS and the GAS) came to personally deal with me and others. It was just at that moment that the Lord opened the door of escape for my family.
Boy you should have seen them change their tune. All of a sudden they were so sweet and loving, apparently I had misunderstood their intentions. They were my best friends (barf) and loved me so much (retch).
The next 8 months while we lived on our own in Japan we enjoyed special status. They didn't want us to appear as examples for others to follow so they took care to treat us with respect and keep up the pretense that we were "in". In truth they would have liked to murder us.
Anyway as soon as we left Japan suddenly we became "rogues". After reporting (and tithing) for a couple more months with no reply at all we stopped. And it felt great. Still does.
