by NotaNess 8 Replies latest jw friends
I heard today at work, one of the witnesses at work has signed up for going to Miss. or Tenn. with a group to work "un-marked" areas? I know I'm calling it wrong, but you know what I mean.
Did any of you make any of these type of trips, where, and any crazy happenings on them?
Yep and NO. It was SSDD. Rural NC. Mosquitoes, poor, old black folks living on their farms who had more sense in their little fingers than we did. They knew how to stay out of the heat and keep the bugs out.
We had this great system in which we'd all load into the 12-seater van that belonged to one family, and get ten or twelve hours only ever having to talk to one person each. That was pioneer gold baby!
I never went myself, but I had a group that always went to Kentucky every year to help out. That trip was about 800 miles (I don't know what part of the state they went to). What I do know is that they were talking about it as if it were a class field trip to a science museum beforehand, and they had stories about placing magazines after. Big deal: I would have wasted my time had I gone.
Yup, went to Mercer County West Virginia for a week when I was 12, and BFE, NC when I was 14 for a week a piece.
The key is to stay as far from the territory as possible, so you get an extra hour or two just getting there each day.
It sucked.
I spent a week in the north-east tip of Scotland with a group from my congregation when I was a teenager. I don't remember anything particularly interesting happening. We did a mixture of rural and suburban territories. It was a very small congregation with a large territory.
In the UK we counted time from the first door, not our front door, so it ddidn't really matter where we stayed.
There were five of us that went to the midwest. It was horrific. Wouldn't do it again if I was paid. We were thorough and innovative.
W.Once
Yep...mountains of NC and TN.
Complete waste of time. There's some scary people living back up in them hills. If you live in the region you know the stories and rumors about some of these people who live way up in the mountains out of touch with the rest of the world. Well, they really exist. They didn't trust nobody. Many of them didn't have modern conveniences, nor wanted them. It was like stepping back in time. We had to use four wheel drive vehicles to get to these places. These people didn't cotton much to strangers let alone flatlanders wearing suits, carrying Bibles/literature coming up there preaching to them. I saw more than one shotgun aimed in our direction. One car group came back saying that they got shot at.
Well - I didn't go on any of those far away trips, but here locally - when I was a lad, we went out in the 'rurals' as they were called then. It usually meant going to a small town nearby, or out in the county on country roads barely useable.
It was usually a full day of trying to talk to one person - seeing a lot of locked gates - etc.
If I remember correctly - it was a lot of fun for me. Got out of the city - got to see the country.
Regards,
Jim TX
