OK I listened in on the phone last night to the CO's talk after the book study. I am truly starting to realize that OTWO is right and it is just making me more depressed and mad. But my husband still goes and it is helpful to be able to bring things up with him.
So I was half listening when he starts to go on about where the money goes that we put into the world wide work box at the back of the hall.
I started to tune in more and he was going on and on about how the ones in the full time service do not have any money and how what we give is what keeps them going and how we need to give. I had never heard that before.
The CO and his wife had been to Gilead and served as missionaries for 10 years, they had to stop because of health problems that he had.
This is their first circuit that they have served in. His dad was very wealthy and cut him out of his will when he because a JW in his early 20's. His dad is dead now and he did get nothing which he brags about saying he put Jehovah before money. So they have no money as the wife's side of the family is poor.
So the CO was going on about how when they were in their missionary assignment they only had enough money to buy a soda pop once a month if they rode their bike in the preaching work as much as they could. But there were HAPPY.
He then said you know my car that is parked outside really belongs to you, of course you cannot drive it because of insurance reasons but you are the ones who have paid for it.
Then he went on about the pioneers in the hall and how they work as little as they can to support themselves so they can give all their time to Jehovah and his ministry and how we should try to support them by using our car while in service and rearranging our schedule to fit their because they have strange work hours. He said we could fill up the gas tanks of the pioneers even if they said no we should still insist and just do it.
I was so mad listening to all the crap. Seriously when I pioneered I was dumped on by everyone including the other pioneers who got pissed off at me because I fell asleep in service on the few times I got to ride in their car, as I was so exhausted from trying to pioneer and work which they did not have too. The other pioneers and whoever was out would pile into our Honda civic with a stick shift six or sometimes even seven people if there were kids with them one child riding with their legs over the stick shift as no else would use their cars. It was stupid and totally unsafe. It must have looked insane to the householder pulling up with all these people in a small car. No one gave us a dime. Only once in four years did anyone fill our gas tank and the wife of the husband was pissed off to no end that he did it. She made me feel like totaly scum while he was pumping the gas.
To hear the CO going on last night, I was so mad. When I was at Bethel all my overseer could say to me was that I was there for the free food. I was so hurt by his stupid comments. Truly if I was so lazy I would have been on food stamps when I pioneered, even with my working we still could have qualified for welfare but I would never take it. If I was going to pioneer it was my chose and I was not going to have the tax payers pay for myself to live.
Anyway I was blown away by his talk on money. I had never heard it from a CO and I assume it was a outline from Bethel.
I wonder if they are hurting for money.
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