How Purposeful And Meaningful Was The Full-Time Service? "Rivers Of Joy, Euphoric Bliss, Better Sex?" (page 2)

Okay let me try this again. Im new at this. As a good little pioneer sister I would dutifully go to the KH to meet with the group only to find the only other pioneer (AKA elderet, is that spelled right??) would greet me with Oh our car group is full, I'm sure you have some calls you can make on your own. 3 years of that and I was done. Now I'm done with the whole sham!! Harleybear and ridin free

Azazel

I have enjoyed ready thru the above posts and i can relate to all that has been written. I was a 3rd generation JW and i cannot recall ever enjoying the act of door to door ministry.I did enjoy the association with some really nice sisters but that was just making the travel bearable but the destination still sucked.

I would be so happy when the weather forecast was for rain on Saturdays so i didnt have to go out in FS. Thankfully my parents were fair weather christians. Even as an adult,husband and father i would pray for rain that i could spend saturday at home and just get some time to relax.

Thinking back over the 40 years as a JW i feel angry for having wasted so much time in the past knocking on doors and talking to people who really did not need to be drawn into this cult.My conceince is clear thankfully that i never brought any into the JWs but i regret the large part i had played in indoctrinating my children in WTS beliefs. Im sure Jesus will forgive me because i was blind spiritually and did not know the real truths.

Funny that the "door to door" ministry model is yet another creation of the man made office of the"governing body" and is distant to the methods practised by our 1st century brothers and sisters.

So for me Full time service in the JW was the last thing i would ever had considered doing,

glad to be free

i remember the catch phrase the WTS used "taste and see that pioneering is good!" . Koolaid is still Koolaid regardless of flavour and it masks the taste of hypocritical death dealing poison the WTS deals to its followers and tries to push on others.

Az

Bungi Bill

In this, as in most things JW, I went for a long time believing the problem must have been with me:

- i.e. there had to be a point that I was missing somewhere.

After all, everybody kept claiming how "happy" and "refreshed" the full time service made a person!

I persevered with full time service for as long as I did, solely because I wanted to discover the point that I believed I was missing (not realizing that everybody else was lying!).

Bill.

Retrovirus

xtreemlyconfused17

i started going to FS at a veery young age, 7? Personally i enjoyed it at the time, i thought it was fun geting attention from a busy man, asking a question, then reading from the bible and proving the man wrong, lots of who listened to me were men so i can say i started 'a number' of studies, but had to hand them over to a brother..........that went on untill i entered teenage (which i'm still in lol), then i learnt there something called 'responsibilities'. I started noticing looks i've never seen. Like a reeealy sleepy man opening the door so i would tell the sister 'um, u take this one'............. Or a woman doing a 'huuuge lump' of laundry (i'm in east africa lol), n giving u this 'cant u see i'm tired and busy' look, again i'd be, 'um sister, u take this one'.................or u go to a shopekeeper and after every word u say, a customer comes, n eventually the shoopkeeper gives u the 'y dont u just leave' look..........so i started thinking JW were a nuisance (spell check). I wasnt happy knockin on doors anymore............once i found myself at the end of 6hours of preaching,i hadnt talk to ANYONE, just read paragraphs on my partners studies. I went home and said 'what the hell did i do under that hot sun for all 6hours!!!!' and the idea of knocking on peoples doors after they come from work is not a very good idea either.............i stoped for other reaosns though (imagine opening a door and seeing a girl with acne and a bible eew lol).......the time i spent home while i could have been in the field service, gave me the chance to discover the truth of the truth. My heart isnt blaming me anymore for not going FS

Bubblegum Apotheosis

designs: You provided your daughter with the perfect example of courage, at the moment you walked away from the door. You saw the clue, warning sign or exercise in futility? You acted and protected your daughter from the Mad Hatters of Brokolyn USA. Courage and pure moral fiber, you are bless with, thank you for sharing your last account.

Xtreme17 You live where all the field service legends are set "Africa", what part? In the United States, we are told stories, Book Studies, Hungry Spiritual Africans are around everyone corner, and you actually have a "Wait-List" with twenty books on hold. Your post and writting were perfect, what is Africa like "Xtreme17", you are very wise, and it's fun to read your experiences, and the way you sent the others to bother the public, you are brilliant for your young age!

Azal: You dealt with the same weird stuff, what was the moment you said "I don't belong, to yourself in this unloving group." I enjoyed your post, sorry if any painful memories came to mind, you are one giant resource, with factfinder and the other posters. thank you.

wha happened?

I was never a pioneer. But I would aux pioneer from time to time. This always introduces you to a much different crown. Thise who go out in service during the week. Yikes. I prefered working by myself. But all in all, I hated knocking on anyone's door.

mercedes_29

This is my first post although I have been reading for a while. I never enjoyed going door to door. I always felt like I was bothering people and the territories were so overworked that I ran into the same householders week after week. I've been out of it for five years and I can't say I miss it that much.

factfinder

Welcome mercedes_29!

I also began to feel we were just bothering the people.

I remember working with a brother and we met a nice man who listened to us-he liked to talk. But we did not make him an rv. But only two weeks later I ended up working with the same brother and we ended up doing that same territory and met the same man again!

I remember back in the late 70's a nice sister in our cong who seemed so calm all the time. She became a regular pioneer and tried to teach me to do the " pioneer shuffle" to help get my time in. She became more and more stressed as time went by. Looking back on it now I understand why.

How Purposeful And Meaningful Was The Full-Time Service? "Rivers Of Joy, Euphoric Bliss, Better Sex?"

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