I spent nearly a year living in Utah. (In the interest of full disclosure, it was something like a week a month for around 4 years, so cumulatively it was about a year.)
During that time I had dozens of conversations with my LDS friends and hundreds of questions. To a person, when they got frustrated trying to answer my questions their fall back was, "We don't have to worry about these kinds of questions. If we have a concern we simply ask the bishop, (stake pres, custodian, etc.). Tthey give us the answer and we're good with that.
For me that has always been the same as suggesting that I ignore the brain God gave me. With all due respect to my Mormon friends and the LDS Freeper contingent, being spoon-fed theology is not what we are called to do. Ask, seek, knock. To simply ask and accept that on faith alone, subverts the next two steps.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment. (Mark 12:30, KJV)
Good observation, as we see this almost to a "T" here. Getting clarity on mormon doctrine is much like nailing jello to the wall. The 'living' prophet is only useful so far - then they throw them under the bus. Furthermore, they have to wade through the clear contradictions within their 'doctrine' (standard works).