Follow the prophet or not?

To start out with I'm going to apologize in advance to anyone who may be offended. I'm not directing my comments at any one person, in fact its a whole big group of people so if you think this applys to you then REPENT and dont be offended because its not my intent to offend anyone.

I recently have been thinking alot about following the prophet. Alot of people say sure I'll follow the prophet but then when they're asked to do something they dont want to do they don't. It completely confuses me. Theres a specific issue which has brought this to mind. For me its something thats really simple to do, maybe its a more difficult commandment for other people to follow but attending the singles branch where you live is something that i'm really picky about. According to the official policy in order to attend a branch where you're not living you have to write a letter to the first presidency and get their approval. If you don't, then you're going directly against the prophet. It's that simple. It's black and white.  Follow the prophet or don't it's up to each individual to decide.

Now at this point I  just sound like some grumpy person who wants to make people feel guilty but i have some doctrine to add. First, Trust in the lord, He's led you to where you are and you're not living where you are by accident. There likely is someone's life that only you can touch and maybe someone needs to have the opprotunity to serve you and touch your life. Second sometimes the lord asks hard things of us. we wouldnt grow at all if life was all peachy and just how we wanted it. If you find it hard to be where you should be keep hanging on, get help, pray hard and do whats right and the lord will get you through it and your testimony will be strengthened. Blessings come after the trial of our faith. Third, the gospel isnt about which singles branch is more fun, sure sometimes other branches have activities that are more fun or better planned or a bigger turnout but that isnt what the gospel is about. The gospel(which is the whole reason for going to church) is about faith, repentance, baptism, recieving the gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end.

So i've gone through apologetic, grumpy, preachy, and now, to finish things up, back to apologetic. If you felt this message was directed at you it wasnt. I'm not directing this at any one person. Those are just my thoughts on the matter, I wanted to make it abundantly clear where i stand. Feel free to comment if you would like to bring up any points i may have missed.