by minimus 27 Replies latest jw friends
I was and still am a sorry publisher. I haven't been out in months. But when I give those talks #2 and 4"s they don't know what to do with me. After my last talk an Elder pulled me to the side and said...You always give good talks but you know what you need to work on. Work on for what?????? I'm not trying to be nobodys MS or Elder. I just want to do my thing and go home. If I had big enough Balls I take myself off the school;
Diamond
I can't say that as a teenager and young adult, I really enjoyed getting up Sat. morning and meeting at the KH to go out in service. I also did not like getting up early on Sunday to attend the meeting, and then meet for service in the afternoon. After a full week of school, and five meetings, there was still the service to get in and the mags and books to place. But, usually, once I got into it, I really did enjoy meeting and talking with all sorts of folks. You might say, it was one of the rare occasions that I got to converse with "worldly people", and no one thought it was a bad thing. I was very good at being a publisher. People seemed to like my sincerity and knowledge of the scriptures, so I had lots of return calls and studies. I took it all very seriously in those days. I was kept so busy, that the questions I had, lay dorment in the back of my mind, until shortly after I had a stint at Pioneering after I graduated HS. That was an eye opener.
I did what I was told to do when I was young. My mother set the example, and we followed her. Unless we were ill, or it rained, or there was a blizzard, we were out there pounding the sidewalk. The highlights of service were when we got to take the country territories. You could maybe get to four houses in two hours. It was relaxing, and the conversation was "usually" about "someone else". There were very few women in our congregation who drove, let alone have cars to use during the daytime. So, if you ever got to ride around in a car, it was a real treat. Most of the time, we just worked the territories that we were dropped off at, or walked to.
Sentinel/Karen
I knew an elder that reported 35 plus hours per month along with a huge amount of placements. He NEVER went out in service and he even gave a District Convention talk all about why we should stay busy in service.Now, he was a GOOD publisher!
I was a bit of an enigma. If you went by hourly requirements, I was a horrible publisher.I had this personal little "shortcomming", you see. I would only go out in service when I felt in my heart that I really really wanted to go and talk to people about the Bible.That was maybe one or two days a month, tops, with gaps of two to six months of irregularity not uncommon. And surprise of all surprises, I always had very good response at the doors(how the regulars hated this fact--kinda blew their theory of "the more you do it, the better you get at it, and the more results you'll get).I really enjoyed getting to know people, and talking with them about the Bible. I liked to hear their perspective.I must say, I learned a lot at the doors. I never had any Bible studies, though. I turned all of my "prospects" over to the pioneers.Just helping out those pioneers anyway I could, you know:)
The pubs hated to see me arrive at the service meeting.I usually got assigned with two other sisters. They would go to one door together, and I would work every other one by myself. Or I'd be the only woman in a car full of men (boy did the local town gossips have fun with this one). One time, the guy who was assigned to go out with me just got up and went home! Left me standin at the kingdom hall all by my lonesome, after everyone else except my kids and I had started out in the field.The thing was, he was the one with the territory. Boo hoo. I went home and had a great morning lounging around the house in my pjs watching cartoons with my kids:)
Now I get to do it every weekend, and there's no one calling me bugging me about my time and being Irregular. AAAkk! Irregular--that sounds like a laxative commercial.
THIS A DAMN HARD one to answer since LINDA LOU was BAD ASSOCIATION.. Not allowed to associate with people of the world and other religions and yet no one withn the ORG ws allwed to associate with BAD LINDA..JWs is a cult but within they have their cliques too...for the most part now LINDA prefers her own company as to that of a JW....HUGS QUEENIE
I was a good publisher. Publishin' the good nuuz. But now I'm bad, cuz I think JW's are BIG BIG cult.
PS
Diamond, go buy the balls you need, and tell them your done with the "Theocratic (God Ruled-whata laugh) Kindergarten Ministry Useless School. And then go home and do your own thing.
Dismembered
Edited by - Dismembered on 12 September 2002 9:40:38
DIAMOND---yes buy the balls you need some very bright yellow tenis ball ones....queenie
BAD BAD BAD!!! God, I hated getting up to go door to door more than getting up to go to work. I was on of those so called selfish people who wanted to sleep in after working 40 hours a week, taking care of 6 kids and a husband, attending 5 meetings a week, and getting up early on Saturday for service and Sunday for the early meeting. I look back and dont know how i did it. Oh yea, thats right, I didnt. hehehehe I think over a 10 year period, i spent 6 of it inactive.
mamashel
