I am currently still a 25 yr old MS and I do both. For the meetings, first of all I miss as many as possible. I dont care about arousing suspicion, because I want to be removed anyways. I fake sick, actually its not faking because I do get a headache when I think about going. I comment maybe once every three meetings, and just sit there and daydream and endure. I often work to rebut whatever is being said, and I. D. any logical fallacies used. Its only twice a week if that. As for Service, I seem to go out about every other or every third Saturday. When I go out, I am lucky that my Cong is kind of lax about FS. We have a huge territory, going from suburban subdivisions to rural farmland. We get to the territory around 10:15 do some D2D which means riding 5 or six to a van and rotating who gets out. When I get out I usually let the other person speak. If I go I try to go alone and not ring the bell, just stand there for 2-3 minutes and then leave. If I am with someone else, I and someone comes to the door, I ID myself as a JW which 99% of the time results in a not interested, and a closed door. If this does not happen I simply say, here is some bible based information that offers a explanation for many of the questions people have today. Then I leave a tract and step off the porch. I dont ask questions or engage the person. Even if you are effective hardly anyone listens, so If you are trying to be intentionally inefecctive like me it always works. I never come back.
At 11:00 is time for break. At my hall this means a sit down breakfast, waitress, menus the whole 9. We eat for about 45 minutes to a hour, I ride in the van for another half hour riding to other peoples calls that arent home, and then its back to the hall then home. I report around 7 hours a month.
I do this so I can maintain a status as a JW as this is the most effectgive way to wake the fam up. If I was DF or DA or inactive, any hope of speaking to my wife about religious or JW related matters would be shot to hell.
My last attempt to plant some seeds failed. I wanted her to watch a documentary I had taped about Mormons, It had so many similarites, I had hoped It would help her think, but she refused to watch it, and said I dont want to know about them. ARRRGGHHH
