AND I MUST ADD -- I did not hear "this may be the last time we do this . . . ."
Like you I made an apprentice to keep friends happy. I heard, "The time is so short we may not have more than one or two memorials left. In fact if you follow what's happening in the news world wide this could very well be the last one we ever have this side of the new world. So it is very important you take the needed steps to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses before it is too late."