I was no angel during these years, I was drinking, providing my school with fake ID’s, and had there been an opportunity for some fornication I’m sure I would have been right in there! (Just how were you supposed to pick up girls at assemblies I will never know?) Despite all of this behaviour, I still believed the basics – and thought that the religion was a genuine one – it was to take more than a decade and many years after I left for this opinion to change.

By my final year of school, I had decided to do a business degree in the closest college to my home. I was not allowed to stay at the college – but thank goodness my parents had the common sense to see that education was important when it came to securing a good job.

Just prior to school graduation I was attacked again by Elder-Evil – this time it was sex before marriage multiple times (I was a virgin), drug use, contact with demons, and alcoholism. My father by this point, was fed up, and essentially told the other elders to ‘piss off’. When I heard about the accusations – enough was enough.

Elder Evil’s daughter and best friend had been sneaking out of their window to meet up with ‘worldly’ boys for a number of months. I knew the ‘worldly’ boys and knew that these ‘sisters’ were drinking and engaging in promiscuous and immoral behaviour. The boys also claimed full intercourse, but I suspected that this was a male claim as opposed to reality.

I told the elders the full story – expecting that there would be some kind of reprove – but as was always the case, Elders children despite admitting to the behaviour, were left alone and not publically named and shamed.

Around this time, I had secured my first part time job, was making my own money, and had started to become self sufficient. I had successfully completed school despite being suspended another two times and being in fights most weeks for the first three years. Life was starting to look better for me. My parents surprisingly allowed me to attend the graduation celebration and party and for this I was very happy – perhaps my social leper status was starting to be a thing of the past!

The congregation had lost seven of its teenagers, only five remained. Of these only three remain in good standing today.

College beckoned and with it a new beginning, and the start of the best years of my life. Despite a few hiccups along the way – the next four years of my degree were smooth enough, until my eventual parting of ways with the religion.

In the next chapter I’ll cover the college years, and the preparations that I made to leave in my final year of the degree.

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