i WATCHED it......... i was one of those who supposedly looked up scriptures to help when others made the actual calls................. i never made a single one. fact is when questioned i was of the opinion that face to face in the territory if someone didnt feel comfortable going to a door...... I WOULD take their turn and pray no one was home....... or if i was with someone and they got a loud talking person i wasnt afraid of them so i would take the door............... so cause i took care of things in PERSON i wasnt gonna bother people on the phone. so i sat there and ate snacks and held a bible in my lap............... only did it once or twice....... thought it was bulls*** from the start.
the way we did telephone witnessing was ...... well first we would "check out" a letter of the alphabit........... "A" for example.............. you got the A section of the phone book........... which led to massive over runs...... YOU PEOPLE WERE AT MY DOOR YESTERDAY WHY ARE YOU CALLING NOW. well i shouldnt say massive but occasional is a better word.
then someone tried to get that reverse phone number list............ and couldnt so instead we got a list of property owners in the county.......... and it was in map format. so you could get a territory and according to that map........... find out on the other map who owned the property and look them up in the phone book.
didnt work good cause many people owned alot of property and rented it out.......... so you called the owner not the renter.............. the big owners got pissed really quickly.
i never felt comfortable BOTHERING PEOPLE in service to begin with tho i would so jehovah wouldnt feed me to the birds. but calling them on the phone............... that is just wrong on so many levels