What to do...
Hi everyone,

This is my first post here, though I have commented, and I'm afraid it might get long, and I'm worried about how people might take it, so bear with me if I ramble, I'm sorry!

I recently (finally!) moved out of home and into the city, and now I have found myself on the Local Assembly! It's quite strange, I was raised in a very active Baha'i family, I've lived in this area (apart from a couple of years) since I was 7, and have had very close ties with the (small) Baha'i community in the city, even though I lived most of it in another community. So I knew all of the members of the LSA quite well - I'd been in study circles with some of them, been to their houses for dinner or Feast or Holy Days. It was a huge shock to start going to Assembly meetings, it's just a mess!

I'm quite upset right now over this, so I might not be that coherent, I'll try to get accross what I mean as best I can. Now our Cluster, while a 'C', is quite advanced, and the level of activity is high, everyone's doing loads for the Faith here, there's a buzz going around and I've caught it! But coming home from every LSA meeting I have this sick kind of feeling, I don't know how to describe it. Now admittedly it is getting better, the last meeting went well, but the LSA just seems to completely be stuck in a way of operating that has no use in the Baha'i community as it is now. It seems like there is an inertia there - people who have got used to doing things in a certain way (after over twenty years of service), even though things have changed hugely.

There have been a couple of things that even went to the NSA recently, people just taking the expediet way to do things that need to be done properly. This is a really hard post to write, because I really can't put any confidential details or whatever, but it's helpful all the same. Would any of you have any advice or have had similar experiences?