OK, back to the juicy stuff...
After all that material on pioneering, you might think I spent a lot of time in the pioneer service, right? Actually, I was a regular pioneer for less than a year. It didn't take me long to get into the habit of fudging my hours (as so many here have indicated that they did). The ironic part is that I don't think I ever added more than 8 or 10 hours in a given month, which means I was still putting in 90+ hours. Now, I read on this board about pioneers who only put in 5 or 10 hours and fudge the rest!
Anyway, fortunately for the cleanness of the congregation, there was an individual in our congregation who had been Assistant Congregation Servant before the elder arrangement came in (right around the time I started pioneering), but who had not been appointed to a position under the new arrangement. I had been newly appointed as a ministerial servant. He somehow became suspicious that I might not be putting in all the hours I was claiming, and took it upon himself to follow me around, and to gossip all over the congregation that I was lying about my hours. Eventually, the gossip got to the elders, who asked me whether it was true. I denied it at first, but soon after that, broke down and confessed. The two letters that follow are the result. Oh, and the spy/gossip? It didn't take him long to get back to being an elder.
The first letter below is to me from the elders, "inviting" me to a JC meeting. It had a lot of identifying info, so the redacting on this one is fairly heavy. The second is more interesting. It came from the Society, after they had been informed of my public reproof. Notice how, after a few words of encouragement, they get to the main point of the letter in the second paragraph...