Did you attend KH meetings under difficult conditions?

greendawn

As JWs were you willing to attend meetings even in cases of difficulty such as bad weather, if it was really cold, rainy, snowy, or if you didn't feel really well, or if you had to spend a lot of time to get there by car or public transport?

Any interesting experiences?

beksbks

Sober

gumby

Hi Greendawn...been wondering when you'd start a thread as I mostly see you only post

For me....the struggle was that all the good shows were ALWAYS on a frickin Thursday night when we had Thurday night meeting! Bastards!

Seriously, none for me, but we took a sister too and fro to meetings. She was always black and blue from the beatings she recieved for being a witness from her hubby that insisted she didn't go to meetings. She ( at that time) was encouraged to undergo the beatings and endure the "persecution" and to remain faithful and stay with him and continue with her meetings. Today 'they'll' let you leave a sorryass like that that.

Gumby

serendipity

Down in East Texas, we were encouraged to attend meetings even if there were thunderstorms and road flooding. Up here, we're not supposed to let hail and tornado warnings keep us away.

beksbks

hehe Gumby, I was going to say that! Thursday nights, "Welcome Back Kotter" and "Happy Days"!

FairMind

No, my wife i and I can miss on the slightest of pretext.

Bumble Bee

I remember one Sunday morning, it had been freezing rain over the night, and everything was coated in ice. We lived way out in the country, no salter/sander truck had been anywhere near us. My mom still made us get up, get dressed, scrape the ice from the car, etc. There was a small hill just after the driveway that we couldn't get up, so back we slid home. I don't know why she even tried! It was pretty obvious that unless we strapped on our ice skates we were goin' nowhere!

Another time it was really really bad fog, and the trip home from work toook almost 2 hours (normally a 40 min drive). My husband literally drove with the door open looking at the divider line while I looked out ahead (couldn't see anything!). We were again out in the country, the KH was in another town another 40 min drive away. Just as we got in the door, our bookstudy conductor called wanting to know if we were coming because he wanted hubby to read that night! Hubby was floored he'd even ask knowing how bad the fog was. He told him in no uncertain terms was he going to put our lives at risk, and even if he did there was no way we'd make it there until after the study was over!

BB

Legolas

Sober

Ha Ha....Good one!

bythesea

The first 5 yrs I was a JW I lived an hour from the KH....dark, windy, country road, often foggy along the river with 2 small children....in the winter it was often icey as well....I don't know what possessed me to drive in those conditions with my children, except I thought I HAD to!

Later, when they were school age, I was working in town and didn't have time to go home from work and turn around to come back in for meetings during the week. My Bible teacher arranged for someone to pick my kids up from school, take them home and feed them at her house and bring them to the KH to meet me there. I took turns having dinner, showering and getting ready for meetings at different bros & sisters home....it was a group effort to make sure I made it to meetings since I lived so far away! I still consider that a loving thing for them to have done for me, but I now also see it in a different light...it was part of the "love bombing" phase. It put me under considerable strain during this time as I had a husband who wasn't getting to see his kids those nights, who couldn't have cared less about WHY I was doing it either!

Can't believe the hoops I jumped through!!

blondie

Ice, blizzards, tornados, chilling below zero cold, I stayed home no matter what the elders decided. Living in an area with several congregations meeting on the same night, it was strange how some cancelled the meeting and with some it was business as usual.

Did you attend KH meetings under difficult conditions?

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