Someone please clarify this if incorrect.
Aren't elders allowed to "count" time for public talk and bookstudy because it is "teaching the congregation"? Now with the public talk time cut shorter and the bookstudy eliminated altogether next year, won't they have to get out "in the field" to get their required hours? A great majority of them won't be able to cut it.
(Oh snap! I just heard something on Family Guy about "Jemima's Witnesses" when a lady said "Y'all want some pancakes?")