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Sleepless in San Fransisco

I went to bed one night after one of my interviews with Louis just crying to the Lord, “I don’t know what to do with all of this! It’s so big!”  And the impression came, “Nothing yet.  There’s more you need to know.”  

After hearing all of Louis’ testimony —I can’t recall now the number of hours invested by then — Louis declared, “You know more about me now than any of the women on that council.  I consider YOU part of my women’s council at this point.”

Heaven honors agency, and whatever jots and tittles needed to be satisfied for the inspiration to come, that may have been it. 

I remembered the Walter Wink post that I did not too long ago on Subtly Subverting Injustice I shared it with him, excited that maybe the solution to this Gordian Knot was somehow embedded in the examples Christ gave us. 

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 
Matt. 5:38-41 KJV

We brainstormed how to extrapolate a solution applicable to his situation.  Unable to come up with any ideas I continued pondering as I went to bed. Between the space of dreams and awake I realized there were two punches, two garments, two miles…two….councils?  There’s already been two.  So a third women’s council?

Temptation to Fight Fire with Fire

I approached Jennifer with the idea of holding a third council.  We could invite members of the WCL2 to hear Louis’ testimony first hand.  In the invitation I’d say, “If you refuse to participate your decision will be interpreted as no contest and a vote toward reinstatement.”  Anyone who did hear his testimony, I was convinced that they’d vote to reinstate.  

The authority over his priesthood certificate would transfer to the Willis home fellowship who would hold a third women’s council against him.  Witnesses from WCL1 and WCL2 would be invited and cross examined.  Declining to attend would be declaring that they recanted their previous testimony.  

Jennifer’s conference co-organizer considered the idea and then pointed out the principle violations in the plan,  “We can’t do what they did.”  

She outlined the proper procedure and order of events that would have to take place, which was months of work.  Her wisdom persuaded me, yet in my disappointment I complained,  “But I really want to!”   
I know, girl!  But we can’t!

Now what?

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity who sharpen their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words that they may shoot in secret at the perfect. Suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not. They encourage themselves in an evil matter. They speak of laying snares secretly. They say, Who shall see them? They search out iniquities. They accomplish a diligent search. Both the inward thought of every one of them and the heart, is deep.

Psalms 64:1

I read some of my earlier blogposts to Louis; the ones I wrote when I was defending the women’s councils: Goliath’s Challenge, Heart of David, and Sacrifice at Golgotha.  All three part a series I call “sons of.”  Sons of giants, sons of men, Son of God.  [link to all 3]

He couldn’t believe how much they perfectly condemned the injustice that he had experienced; gasping at several points.  Which, to be honest, I do enjoy when someone appreciates my writing. 

I realize now who Delilah really is.  And told him so.  He agreed.

I realize now that I was the little lamb in the mouth of the bear needing rescue. So, I’m the lil’ floofball?  Dang…

I realized that God left little Easter eggs for me in my own writing:

God was not in a hurry. He was laying the groundwork for what was to come.

Grounds for a Women's Conference

Louis petitioned for reinstatement on 13 April 2025 and again on 18 September 2025, but until very recently they ignored the request.       

Reinstatement of the man’s authority must be considered by the same council of twelve women when the man petitions for the decision to be rescinded, and requires seven of the twelve to agree upon his reinstatement, which can occur at any time.

By the first of the new year— and after hearing hours of his first hand testimony— I told Lou that I was willing to go to war for him, wielding my pen (aka sword, mightier than) and hold another Women’s conference with my dispute: WCL2 will not reconvene and uphold their duty to consider reinstatement.  

He appreciated my willingness, but declined the offer saying that it would only fracture the community further.  I honor his agency in making that call.  He added however, that he reserved the right to let me bring my dispute to Women’s Conference at a later date.  

The next morning my husband told me that he could tell that I was agitated and asked what had been troubling me.  I gave him a brief summary of the witch hunt and the priesthood certificate.  He told me that just that night, he had a nightmare about me being hospitalized again.  Armed with the information regarding the source of my angst, he asked me not to participate in any women’s councils or conferences.  I told him that his concerns are not unfounded and I submitted to his stewardship as my husband.  I promised that I would not participate in any councils or conferences. 

However, at that time I was already part of the Fall conference committee.  That same morning I transferred ownership of the conference Slack group, let them know that I would be bowing out and deactivated my account entirely.  

WCL2 has nothing to fear from me.  I will not organize a Women’s Conference against you.  But there was a valid dispute.  

I really wonder if their spidey-senses were tingling after the Boxes? Check!  post because they reached out to Louis the next day finally responding to his April and September reinstatement request.  

In an email dated September 18, 2025 you asked that your priesthood certificate be reinstated. Are you asking us to meet to consider your reinstatement at this time?

14 Jan 2026, two days after Man of Sorrows was published Louis responded: 

I can no longer ask for reinstatement.  In order to fully understand the sins that are being laid at my feet I am respectfully asking for the explicit charges against me that include:

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Please provide the evidence to me as required by the June 20th revelation honoring just and holy principles that God established  in the Constitution.
-Louis

I helped him soften his response, BTW.  The intention is his, but the words are mine.  Now you know

"Tell Your Story"

Louie found it fascinating that Aimee— who was so deeply embedded on one side of the dispute —could have my mind changed. 

“If you can do it, anyone can do it.” 

He thought the best approach would be to just tell my story.  So I started writing.  It was a lot.  I mean… A. LOT.  Fire-hose extraordinaire.  

I sent a draft copy to a dear friend.  In wisdom, she recommended that I break the post up into parts.  Everything all at once would overwhelm people and I’d lose them before I could finish.  So, this has been broken into seven parts, beginning with Open Invitation.  And based on the title of this post and the 2nd post, you’ll have already guessed that the 7-part series forms a chiasmus.  That kind of just happened, if I’m honest.  I wasn’t even planning on writing the Bread of the Laborer until a conversation on the women’s slack inspired the post.  

I had intended on publishing the singular post on the 2-year anniversary of Louie’s WCL1 notification, instead I addressed the principle violations in his councils that day.  

After Puzzling Pieces was released the backlash was overwhelming.  Immediately I lost friends.  Some I expected and some that surprised me.  

Helaman logged into the Preparing the Peacemakers YouTube account that I had created and changed the password.  I didn’t realize until a few hours later.  I changed it back, but then it immediately changed again.  She and Alma, who were given administrative access, fought with me through the interwebs changing the password, adding a pin, deleting back up emails.  And then, one of the two deleted the whole account.  All of the Common Consent Town Hall recordings …just gone.  At that point I realized it wasn’t enough to just change the password back.  Fortunately, I was able to recover the account.  OMG thank you!

I deleted both of their email links, added a QR verification code, logged both their devices out and changed the password to something only I would know.

Then I texted both of them.

Hi Alma, I saw you or Helaman tried to delete the Preparing the Peacemakers account.  I feel sad that you want to destroy all the videos of the meetings.  I’ve protected the account against loss. Would you like to talk about it?

When I didn’t hear back from either of them I texted just Alma.

I knew you’d be upset.  Just so you know.  I thought about telling you beforehand but thought you’d be unnecessarily anxious.  “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but even more to stand up to our friends”You were always loved by me

I’ve been told that the odds are: men are guilty.  Yes, overwhelmingly accusations of abuse against men are founded.  But if an accusation equals guilt, than so were the men on the 2006 Duke lacrosse team guilty, DNA evidence be damned.  Abenadi was guilty, and Jeremiah and Stephen and Micaiah AND our Lord.  GUILTY.   

Emotional manipulation, third hand hearsay, and pious, illogical outrage do not qualify as supporting evidence.  STFU...and i mean that in the nicest way possible.

Let’s address what was said and what was not said.  I copied the relevant section from the public blogpost into ChatGPT.

ChatGPT Prompt:  Please don’t summarize the text. Please just give me what the “physical contact made during an argument” was specifically. Punch, slap, grab? What? This is the only information you have to base your conclusion on: 

[excerpt from Puzzling Pieces]

Based only on the text you provided, there is no specific physical contact described between the two people.There is no punch, no slap, no grab, no restraint, no shove stated anywhere in the account.The only physical action explicitly described and mutually agreed upon is:

  • Throwing his belongings (the disagreement is over word choice: “gently toss” vs “chucked”).
  • The phrase “physical contact made during an argument” is referenced as a rumor, not as a described act, and no body-to-body contact is specified in the narrative you provided.

So, strictly and precisely answering your question: What was the physical contact?

None is explicitly described.

With [ex-wife]’s explicit permission I will give the bullet points of why her version of events is fabricated; on the women’s slack only and not in public.  

I did not violate [ex-wife]’s confidence.  Just because you all know what I was referring to doesn’t mean that I disclosed anything.

WCL2 organizer was livid.  Accused me of a massive violation of confidence. Unmitigated treachery.  Also accused me of locking her out of the post with a password, but she was using the backdated link that I created for Lou to review it before I hit publish.  User error, I guess 

My mistake was not unchecking the “send email” box and it went out to all my subscribers.  Frickin’ great.   

After I gave her the correct link and she read it, she came back guns a’blazing saying that I silenced [ex-wife]’s voice.  

First I violated confidence and then I didn’t tell her side of the story.  Can’t have it both ways lady   Whatever.  Bound and determined to be mad no matter what.

Then my first fellowship mom, the one I knew from the very beginning of this journey asked me to remover her prayer from my website saying she didn’t want to be affiliated with “whatever it is you think you’re doing.”  

 Will do.

Homeless

@channel

With all of the drama surrounding the recent posts that I’ve written, I’ve kicked up a hornets nest of outrage within the Covenant Christian community.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about please read forward from: Open Invitation posted on Jan 5th on the Face Toward Zion website.

I’ve offended every powerful family within this movement and will probably never be welcome at a conference again.  CS won’t talk to me and I’m not about to force the issue.  But I must say that her rejection has given me the most heartbreak in all of this.  AM and KA reached out to me with serious concerns about my well-being, asking if I was sleeping.  Valid.  I’m bipolar and their concerns are not unfounded.  I’m so grateful that they did because I felt their genuine love and compassion.  Thank you both.I’ve talked to BN about what’s been going on, and rather than impose my controversy on any of you further I am casting myself out from among you.  He will be taking over as the Primary Owner of the Slack platform and is willing to keep Little Zion Hesed in stewardship moving forward.  I will be homeless as far as fellowship.  But I am not abandoning the movement.  I love you.  I have considered you an extension of my own family.  You are all so very precious to me. After talking to TM about my decision I looked up the original emails from LK when I reached out on Fellowship Locator.  As a tender mercy and confirmation that this is the right decision, I realized that today is the eight year anniversary of joining Little Zion. Aimee

Ten Virgins - Great Competition

It’s obvious to me that whatever is happening right now in this movement is testing our character.  We are in the crucible and heaven is watching.  

Five of the virtuous virgins who were expecting the wedding party to arrive were, nevertheless, excluded. They were virgins like the others; but the others were allowed to enter, and they were not. They did not lack virginity. They did not lack notice. They were not surprised by an unexpected wedding party arriving. But they lacked “oil,” which is a symbol of the Holy Ghost. They failed to acquire the necessary spirit with which to avoid conflict, envy, strife, tumult, and contention.

Civilization

Did you all really think we could gather around a Zion campfire, sing Kumbaya and everything would just be sunshine and lollipops? 

I may be crazy, but I’m not THAT crazy.  

What's lacking?

Women need oil.  We need that ever-present, filled with God’s light, presence of the Holy Ghost.  WOMEN.

Uh…not all of us?  

No, let me explain.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment. And he said unto him, Friend, how did you come in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king unto his servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take and cast him away into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, for many are called, but few chosen; wherefore, all do not have on the wedding garment.

Matthew 10:19

I never understood this until very recently.  They invited all the vagabonds from the highways and didn’t give some poor dude the right party clothes when he showed up?  And then manhandled him out of the venue?  What?!

What is the wedding garment?  

It’s the priesthood.

Women need oil.  Men need the garment.

The priesthood is not that silly piece of paper that everyone is losing their minds over.  I guarantee you that Louie’s priesthood is intact.  In fact, he in my eyes, one of the most righteous models of a man despite all of his VERY rough edges.  I would trust this man with my life.  I would trust him around my 20 year-old only daughter, with her gorgeous blond hair and blue eyes. 

Who thrusts in their sickle?  Men

Who grinds the wheat and bakes the bread?  Women

Who breaks the bread and blesses it?  Men

Who sets the table?  Women

Who tends the flocks and shears the sheep?  Men

Who spins the wool, weaves the cloth and clothes men in flesh?  WOMEN

The roles of Priest and Priestess have been set before our eyes all along.  More on that here.  

Modern men often ask women, “What do you bring to the table?” when dating someone new.  However, the premise is wrong.  A wife multiplies whatever her husband brings to the table.  You give her groceries, she makes you meals.  You give her truth, she gives you wisdom.  You give her shit, she’ll give you the storm.  You give her love, she gives you LIFE.

A wife’s role is to be strong where her husband is week.  Providing peace where he ensures safety.  She creates a home from the house he provides.  Filling it with beauty, color, music, culture, and a kingdom through posterity.  

In the order of marriage and family the two are equal.  However, 

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

Ephesians 1:20

The principle of Order defines the government of God, which IS the family.  Stewardship governs how responsibilities in ordered roles are discharged.

All that in mind, go and re-read the third post I wrote defending the Women’s Councils and then come back.

Sacrifice at Golgotha

He is not come to destroy, but to fulfill; for truly I say unto you, heaven and earth must pass away, but one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the law till all shall be fulfilled.

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Sacrifice at Golgotha

He is not come to destroy, but to fulfill; for truly I say unto you, heaven and earth must pass away, but one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the law till all shall be fulfilled.

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From where I stand the likelihood that anyone from the WCL2 will vote to reinstate is slim to none.  I shared a spreadsheet of the “dream team” that was passed along to me in the women’s slack.  Its very revealing.  I won’t share it here, so ask around.  It’s obvious to me that there’s an element of crazy ex-girlfriend involved and an agenda that is devoid of any logical consistency.  

I am holding out hope for Mormon and Ether.  I know these ladies well enough to know they have seen first hand the abuses of principle violations in WCL2.  My sweet Ether reached out to Lou just the other day trying to extend the olive branch.  He responded harshly and I said, “Oh gosh…that probably wasn’t the best response.  🫠”

My Prayer for the women of WCL2

I pray that you will be blessed.  That your gardens will bloom, your sourdough rises and your chickens lay plenty of eggs.  I pray that your husband’s job gets a raise, his business thrives and prosperity and goodness pour out over your lives.   I pray that your children are strong, healthy, and rise up to call you blessed.  I pray that rain falls overnight and the sun shines during the day.  I pray that God’s light fills your life and your understanding increases.  I pray that your books sell, that your projects get done that your friends always stay true.  I pray that safety surrounds you, and that you find God’s peace all the days of your life.  

I can’t bless you obviously, but I can certainly ask.  

The Law also says for you to love your neighbor, and lets you even hate your enemy. But now I say to you: Love your enemies also, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you, so you may become the children of your Father who is in heaven, for He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good. 

3 Nephi 5:31 CE

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Standard Operating Procedure

Hear me now: Let every person take care in how they use my name, as if I had part in their every dispute, for many things provoking arguments among the people are born from pride, stubbornness, aspiring for control, and reckless indifference toward me and one another. I bear with the people still, and patiently await the return of natural fruit in my vineyard. Do not be misled by my patience, for the time is quickly approaching for the harvest of my vineyard. Amen.

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Next:

Standard Operating Procedure

Hear me now: Let every person take care in how they use my name, as if I had part in their every dispute, for many things provoking arguments among the people are born from pride, stubbornness, aspiring for control, and reckless indifference toward me and one another. I bear with the people still, and patiently await the return of natural fruit in my vineyard. Do not be misled by my patience, for the time is quickly approaching for the harvest of my vineyard. Amen.

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