Hey everyone, this is my first post and I'am terrefied. I have been lurking for over a year and finally decided that it was time to post. I feel like I know all of you and feel more at home here than at the Kingdom Hall. Here is a little background info. I began to study when I was 14years old and got babtized at 18. As soon as I was baptized I began to aux.pioneer and six months later I became a regular pioneer. I was always at all the meetings, was the first one the elders called when they needed some one to do a last minute talk and was always out in service. A year ago in May I was looking for a website to buy service supplies and accidentally stumbled on a disassociation letter someone had written and then I found this board. Since then I have never been the same. The things some of you have gone through break my heart and I have found it difficult to return to the hall. I began to miss meetings alot and no one ever bothered to check up and see if everything was okay with me. I could have been dead and no one in the hall would have known. I stopped going in service went of the pioneer list and yet there was never so much as one sheperding call. I always thought that the elders would be there when I needed them but I was wrong.
I apologize, I did not mean for this to be so long.
I hope to really get to know all of you, as many of you helped influence my decision to withdraw from the the congregation. All of you have taught me something about the "truth" and I will be forever greatful.
Lola