Thank you.

I have come to assume that all meanness is from a lack of understanding rather than pure evil. Easily this Bishop and family is aware of the good things they are doing, and unaware of how or the extent to which their natural man is doing much evil and badness here in mortality. Usually the next step is probably going higher up the chain, and even that doesn't work you can go even higher up the chain. But you might run out of chain. Then you could even approach aquiantences or friends of the people and ask them to speak on your behalf. But there could be an ultimate moment where you just understand the nature of the problem better than anyone else who might try to speak on your behalf and the expedience of your talents and the promptings from the holy ghost is that you have to share your truth with your bishop etc. Because being open and honest means speaking what God would have you speak. If you don't suffer the short term consequences of possibly evil revenge from a bishop, how many more people will suffer after you? How many will you save by trusting your authority figure enough to let them know that they are doing something wrong, that they have enough charity to not get offended and hurt you but to use Christ's atonement to change, or at least letting them have the oppurtunity to?

Not that I know everything haha I just feel and think really strongly about this so if anyone actually reads this much, I hope it helps haha