As long as you have ANY time to report, the elders were not to judge. Perhaps you informally witnessed all the time.
"Your Reports HAVE To Be Turned In By The 6th of the Month!"
by minimus 32 Replies latest jw friends
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Raphael
I really enjoyed going out in service...it's the one thing I miss most about my time as a JW.I was meticulously honest in my reports. Hard to believe that so many lied about what they were doing...just shows what an absolute farce it all was.
The fruitage of man-made systems of worship, where members become bogged down with uneccassary rules and traditions...they loose their joy and spirit.What should be an act motivated by deep love and free will is now a task that is a burden.
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minimus
Sorry-- but going out in service sucked. To me and most everyone I knew, at least.
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JustTickledPink
I never made up my time either. I was always so honest about it, I felt horribly guilty if I didn't get all my time in. I pioneered and they changed it so it was the average of 90 hours a month but as long as you got your 1,000 hours in by August, everything was okay... I sooo remember going out in July and August here in Florida and going door to door or doing RVs for about 110 hours a month trying to make the deadline. It was me and one of my friends that did it together. It was horrid, but we did it because we felt obligated.
We joked around that we never got Bible studies, that our job was just the "warning" work, not making the disciplines.
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BluesBrother
I was the secretary for along time, (too blooming long) but I never called up anyone to chase their report. I let my number be known and some would always call me in the first week of the month and that was ok. Once I got a holiday postcard from a family that had gone away and recalled they had forgotton their reports.
I never had the "Secretary mentality" I figured it was just paperwork, so no big deal. I also never sent off the report by the 6th. As long as it arrived in the first two weeks of the month I figured that they would cope with that , and I got in a lot more reports . Once or twice i got a snotty note from Bethel but , So what?? I got a lot more reports by doing that.
This whole 6th of the month thing was a means for little men with rule-book minds to be able to tell-off their brothers. If someones report was late, ok I just carried if forward into next months total and it all averaged out anyway. I made up their card as if the report had been on time.
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minimus
BluesBrother, you were a sucky secretary.
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jt stumbler
I don't miss having to make up time so that I would not be looked down on. I would say 1hr. every time they called just to stay "active". They don't call me anymore whaaaaaaa...
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minimus
As long as your active, you're still CLEARLY under THEIR rules!
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Khazar
In my years as a JW I turned in time only three times. I felt anything done for Jehovah should be done silently and without a showy attitude. I explained this to my study conductor (I was still new in "the truth") and was given a non-satisfactory answer. One of the issues surrounding my disfellowshipping was "how much time do you have?" After I was df'd I would put Watchtower and Awake mags in my neighbors' mailboxes which led to police being called and my being taken home by them. Although it was serious to my family then, It is funny now. They still talk and laugh about it. I was always a rebel a bad seed.
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drwtsn32
I never lied on my report... Damn I was such a sucker!