Are the reinstated disfellowshipped always repentant?
Expert: Robert Jones – 10/26/2009 Question Do elders make mistakes in reinstating disfellowshipped individuals? Could they overlook or miss anything and be overcome by pity or tears? You mentioned in your reinstatement steps suggestions in one of the questions here, that one has to make ammends with the people that he wronged to get reinstated. That didn’t happen to the case I know and it’s very very discouraging for us. The story goes: Mr. X is witness who tried to steal away my sister-in-law (my brother’s wife). He was inloved/obsessed with her. He was treated as a friend by my brother. Long story short, they had an affair and the affair was confessed by my S-I-L who was so remorseful. Mr. X was disfellowshipped because he had no plans of revealing the affair and had she not confessed to the elders, Mr. X would have continued bugging her. Mr. X was smart enough and attended meetings to a different congregation after disfellowshipping. He got reinstated in less than a year. Here’s our
