What were your favourite topics in the field service?

by JH 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  JH

  Oh, I loved it when there was an earthquake someplace around the world, or famine or war just to make a juicy introduction...

  Bad economic news also made a good conversation.
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  greendawn

  I was fascinated with the idea of the transition from the times of the nations to the kingdom of God so this is what I was talking about a lot. The end was supposed to come soon. 25 years later it hasn't and the JWs I know long since to be a devious, self serving cult.
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  Tuesday

  does where we were going on break count?

  I sucked at going door to door, my presentation was "Hi we're Jehovah's Witnesses" and wait for them to say not-interested. If that didn't work I would add "we're going around your neighborhood talking with people about the bible". That usually did the trick.
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  crashfire451

  "Good morning ma'am! My friend and I were out this morning talking with your neighbors and - um, wow, nice bath towel. What? Would I like to step inside for a moment? Of course, of course. Let me just send my friend here on to the next house and we can perhaps begin our discussion with the intricacies of pornea......."
  
  But seriously, anyone ever have one of my field ministry fantasies come true?
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  White Dove

  Greendawn,

  I never got that straight. I'm sorry, times of the nations to...what? Those time line explainations always went over my head and bored me to tears. I never saw the scriptual proof for any of it. Maybe that's why it never took in my mind.
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  White Dove

  Fantacies in service come true? I was so straight-laced and fanatical just to be popular and accepted and live forever of course(didn't work too well as I got sick of pretending) that even if a gorgeous Greek god came to the door, I would not have noticed. And THAT may be the cause of my eternal singleness. What better place to meet a prospective mate than going door to door hunting for one? Stupid me! Do I smell another string or whatever you call a group of posts? I do believe I do. Excuse me for a minute...
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  KW13

  Like a lot of cowardly dubs i tended to concentrate on the Awake! rather than Watchtower, much easier to 'sell' and had a friendly message. The Watchtower was either tucked in inside or at the back meaning they had a 'suprise' later (we called that seed planting lmao).

  IF i ever offered the Watchtower it was usually cover presentations that were almost self explanatory but that didn't stop me feeling clever.
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  kifoy

  I usually would only present the magazines and not much more. Quick and dirty. The Awake at front most of the time, because the titles here usually were where the most trivial and interesting. And maybe brochures or books if the where special campaigns.
  
  If I decided to be more "advanced", I usually followed the same tactics as Tuesday. I too hated the door to door service.
  
  I remember one time, I had for a while used the "hello we are visiting your neighbourhood trying to stimulate the interest for the Bible" (This may not be a very good presentation in English, I don't know, but in Norwegian, it was something like that.)
  
  But one day, at one door, I can't explain what happend, really. But I said: "Hello we are visiting your neighbourhood trying to *simulate* the interest for the Bible". :-0
  
  The very moment that words slipped from my mouth, I wished I could just vaporize. But the worst part was that I had a huge crush on the brother that was visiting that door along with me. He was laughing all the way back to the car.
  Hehe. I can look back and laugh about it now... :-)
  
  kifoy
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  ButtLight

  I hated every topic, but was also young and was always worried about running into friends from school.

  the extent of my speach? "Hi my name is buttlight, and this is soandso..we were just stopping by to see if you would be interested in the latest copy of the watchtower and awake!"

  It was a yes or no and I was outta there!
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  White Dove

  Buttlight,

  That was it for me as an adult pioneer. I was so bad at it. "Hi, my name is ...and this is...we are talking with you and your neighbors to encourage Bible reading. Would you like the latest copy of the WT and A! magazines?" yes or no and I was out of there.