...per the elder giving the local needs part last night on the importance of family study & not "wasting" our newly found free time:
(Paraphrase) "We are being trained to cover our weekly assigned material in a shorter period of time. Prior to this change, it took nearly 5 hours to cover a week's worth of material from the FDS. Now it is done in 3 and a half hours. So, when the persecution comes, and we're having our underground meetings in private homes, we'll be together for much less time, and there's that much less chance of our being caught and thrown into prison."
You just can't make this stuff up!
If that's the reason, why not cut the meetings down to 1 hour a week? Think of the safety we'll experience in that "imminent" persecution!
Hey, why not just eliminate the meetings altogether!
Idiots.