An anonymized version of an email I received:

Recently I have been impressed to write an epistle to the leaders of the LDS church. I recognize that is a really ambitious thing to do and perhaps the path for it to reach its intended audience is uncommonly achieved, but I'm trying to do what I'm told and have great hope that some purpose may be achieved by doing so.

Over the weekend, I sent it to my Stake President to follow the protocol of passing it up the chain, and unsurprisingly, he would like to meet with me to first counsel together about what I wrote, including the concerns I expressed. I have heard from others about their meetings with church leaders, including some who were put through the process of being excommunicated. I am not sure that at this time I will share that fate, but I guess it's certainly possible.

Having been through the full extent of this process yourself in the past, and to the extent you feel comfortable, I was wondering if there is anything you wish you would have known then that I could benefit from now before my meeting.

As of right now I am doing my best to remain in the spirit and plan to take the Luke 12 approach:

"11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say."

My response:

As you have supposed, it is likely this will be among your last chances to speak with your Stake President. As such, it is time to choose the hill you will die on.

My advice would be to orient your thinking towards how you can help the Stake President rather than how to defend your beliefs. Adopting his perspective, there will be some beliefs that you presently hold that are so far afield that, should you disclose them bluntly, he will feel guiltless in ignoring everything you believe, even those beliefs that lie closest to his window of understanding.

God will guide you, as the scripture you quoted suggests, during the meeting, and you should say whatever you believe he would in your place. In the meantime, putting yourself in your Stake President's shoes and thinking of the minimal increment of improvement from where he stands would be helpful. You can find scriptures and formulate arguments around a theme most proximate to his present state of awareness. The possibilities abound, but as an example, talking through the idea of being a prophet, seer, and revelator as a description rather than as a title.