Any Pioneer Letter Scans?

Island Bro

Hi I was wondering if anyone had any scans of Pioneer Letters. You know those ones they send out when you first become a Reg. Pio. Or the ones they send out annually? Does anyone have any? or know where I can get a few? I would prefer a scan rather than excerpts.

changeling

Welcome to the forum island bro!

Sorry,I don't have a pioneer letter. That's an interesting request, though.

Island Bro

Yeah, I tried searching all over the internet. i Figured that with SO many Pioneers past and present theres got to be at least ONE out there but i cant seem to find them.

VanillaMocha73

I never kept mine - they were nothing to write home about, as I recall.

neverendingjourney

I agree. The letters were nothing special, just typical Jehovah values you now go out and preach type things. They read like a Watchtower article.

neverendingjourney

Which reminds me, there were some crazy pioneers at my congregation. They kept justifying all the weird stuff they did out in service by saying that they were allowed to do that because they were told they could at the superspecial pioneer school they attended. They had information that not even the elders had! Whoopty Doo.

I couldn't wait to go to the pioneer school to get all of this "top secret" insider information. When I went, I was really disappointed to find out that there was no such special instructions being given. That was just an excuse these crazy people used to justify all of the crap they tried to pass off for field service. For instance, they'd spend an hour or more at a restaurant, leave a tract, and count the entire time as field service. They would also find an unbaptized publisher to tag along with them to the local shopping mall and count several hours because they were supposedly preaching to them. It was insane. The year and a half that I was a regular pioneer was one of the low points of my life.

Island Bro

I am trying to explain something to a pioneer sister. But i need a "to all pioneers in the united states" letter. I mean they send them out all the time and i am sure someone here has one or two they can share!

Mysterious

I wish I could have counted all those service shortcuts. Though I always lied and said I had talked to a classmate if I needed a few minutes to round up until the next hour of field service time...

neverendingjourney

These people were truly crazy. Picture a 15 year old kid waking up at 5:00 a.m. in the morning to get ready to go preaching because a pioneer promised to pick him up at 6:00 a.m. Six rolls around and nobody drops by. Fifteen, twenty minutes pass and still nothing. The 15 year old changes back to his pj's and goes back to sleep. Around 7:30 the pioneer finally shows up and acts like nothing's happened. The 15 year old just shrugs it off and gets ready for service again, only instead of going out in service he's taken to the local restaurant for breakfast where all the pioneers meet up. There was no morning service. He can't figure it out. This story repeats itself over and over. Finally, after he gets baptized and it stops. When the kid gets a little older and becomes a regular pioneer himself, he learns that he was only being taken out to service so the pioneers could count their time over breakfast. They wouldn't pick him up any earlier because they would get into heated gossip sessions and he wasn't spiritually mature enough to partake in them. You don't want to stumble anyone, you know.

Well, I was the 15 year old kid. It was sick. My supposed pioneer partner worked an afternoon shift. He was supposed to get his time in by going out early in the morning. That's was the only time he had for service. I had to wake him up so many times that I finally got tired of it and stopped. He rarely went out on the weekends because that was party time. Come August, he had finished his times several weeks before I did, phantom hours, I suppose. There was another pioneer who I never saw out in service. I saw an elder/pioneer open his planner and write down 3's for about 7 days in a row. He didn't bother to check how much time he actually had. One time we were out in service for about two hours and he told me to write down three because we were pioneers. I was shocked that a lot of these pioneers had no regular day and time set for their Bible studies. They would just show up when convenient and guilt trip them into dropping what they were doing to accommodate their schedules. I was sickened by what I saw. Thankfully, all of that caused my faith in JWism to weaken, which in turn led me to have doubts.

Sorry for hijacking your thread.

SnakesInTheTower

i might have some pioneer letters, either from when i pioneered, or when i was secretary and kept extra copies. pm me your address and if i can find them Ill send them (and did not trash them in my recent purge)

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