I really lost count. My first marriage in the lie was a terrible experience I couldnt understand why it was all going so bad when I was trying so hard to do the right things. I concluded I must have lost eehors favour so I started confessing things Some of the things I confessed were exaggerated and just plain fantasy I thought I must have done something really bad for god to hate me so much!
Well when I was about 15 I read a book called "deliverance" and was mighty impressed.I figured that being a survivalist in the woods was how I was going to get through Armaggedon. I turned into a bit of a Burt Reynolds immitator running around with a bow and riding in canoes down wild rapids. A lot of the men in the congragation went on these canoe trips which I organized, though, if there were adults on the trip they remembered to bring the WT for the study and even printed out the sheets from the songbook so we could sing kingdom melodies by the campfire.
Anyway, I organized a trip on the Mitta Mitta river which turned into an epic in terms of white water, Big rapids, one section took us two full days to travel 3 miles of white water. The people I went with were 3 brothers called Stonehouse. All teenagers. They were a bit of a "tainted" family really. A bit nutty. There were all kinds of stories about that family floating around the congo. Incest stories mainly. They were hillbillies, I figured they belonged in the woods. 4 young men in the woods for ten days, things got a bit primitive like "lord of the flies". Drinking to excess. Swearing. The brothers fought like hell with each other, the big ones beating up on the smaller ones.A couple of the brawls were quite ferocious. And Dave Stonehouse was in the habit of getting his gear off and going nude.
So when we got back people tell stories , "Dave was nude". "Tommy beat me up in a drunken rage" etc. Somehow it came into public knowledge. I think it was the nudity thing that made the elders question.They wanted to know about the drinking too. I took some pictures of Dave naked and these somehow came into the public domain. I must have given them to someone along with pictures of the trip.
