Aussie outback Witnessing experience! Have you done isolated territory!

by Witness 007 19 Replies latest jw experiences

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  Witness 007

  Driving for miles between houses...sometimes I would lose a hub-cap and have to go back "hubcap hunting." Why bother since my car was as old as I was .....20 years. People that live 30 miles from town would be shocked to see us! Some driveways were a 15 minute drive from the front gate! People are very friendly, since they never get visitors. It was so peaceful out there we couldn't talk about Crime or Pollution???? so we spoke of a time when there would be "Lotsa rain and no mice plagues!" I love the one horse towns with one general store. City folk can't imagine...town population 120.

  Have you been Witnessing in Isolated areas?
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  ferret

  yes in northern ontario back in the seventies...a whole new experience
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  brinjen

  Yep, centre state South Australia. Quite a bit of it actually.

  I was just chatting with another JWDer on gabbly before, how the congregation used to go country witnessing, then meet for a picnic and a game of cricket afterwards. But the elders saw it as socialising and stopped it. Took the fun out.
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  Witness 007

  A couple of young brothers went "Roo shooting" between homes...I never liked killing animals, would never do it for sport. The Elders told them off really bad!
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  seagrl

  Upstate NY and Pa, I was from Nj and when i moved there, i was used to walking door to door. it was quite the change to have to drive so far and how long the driveways were.. I was in constant fear of being shot at!! I wonder how they afford the gas now??
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  Nathan Natas

  I'm a city boy from the BIG city - NYC. I love the open landscapes, etc., but for the life of me I can't imagine how anyone makes a living out there.
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  sass_my_frass

  Best way to pioneer was to know the guy who took a busful out on rural territory once a month. Loading in at 4am, somebody would leave an old Awake with the McDonalds window kid and we'd all count the time from then until we got back home late in the evening. We'd play card games and talk to maybe two puzzled farmers each during the whole day.
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  Roski

  Rural witnessing and mice plagues - ah, the memories!
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  wozadummy

  Thats the way to do it SASS !Been down to SE South oz with the Millicent congo and then go real rural ,used to leave tracts on the strainer posts at the dirt track intersections as you knew people would stop at these . Interesting witnessing at Coober Pedy especiallly to the Aborigine people. W@hen I lived in Queensland I had a good freind who go out with an elder on motorbikes to the stations in all sorts of weather ,it finished though when he hit a large kangaroo at speed and mutilated his arm pretty bad. I think they used to go just to satify their need for speed and love of the bush.
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  penny2

  Yes, also in South Australia. We'd spend more time checking out derelict houses than talking to people.