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  2. Could you try switching it to windowed? I think it might make the difference.
  3. Sequitur is a word so rarely used, that I'm seeing it for the first time.
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  5. Has anyone found a workaround for this bug? I did some tweaking and sent app data. I changed the schedule option dropdown from Weekly to Meeting. Then I entered a group for weekly cleaning and the same one for after meeting cleaning. We have scheduled for a few months but only three show up in 4.0.8 NWP app and those are still incorrect. I tried to refresh app data. None of these things have worked. All of our brothers are on the latest NWS version.
  6. Well if you were in ancient Jerusalem you would: 1. Not have sunglasses. 2. Be squinting much more. 3. Have more wrinkles due to #1 & #2. So AI has it all figured out!!!
  7. The territory assignment works via NWS Mobile. However, it is still in beta. The territory servant can assign territories on the go using the app. In our congregation we have also defined in the NWS Desktop certain territories for JW Publisher as “self‑assign territories,” which the elders and ministerial servants—and, when needed, pioneers in the congregation—can take for themselves, for a group, for their family, or for the entire congregation. However, this quickly becomes hard to keep track of. That is why we are looking forward to the NWS Mobile version once it exits the beta stage.
  8. Woww! The program is on jw.org already! That's early! I thought so too! So I converted it to mp3 format and posted it in my Music Collection. It's in a zip file, along with the official image for it, and the lyrics. The file with the lyrics does not contain any music for the song, but the words only. If you need the link to my Music Collection, send me a PM.
  9. And so we move forward from 2016... In 2022 my wife left me and I started recontacting the girls. One by one over a few months I phoned to re-establish our relationships and learned that some of them were facing difficult times. Summer, who had always lived with her mother, suffered the loss of her mom. This meant she had to learn a lot of independence and find somewhere else to live, ultimately moving in with the family of her carer. Ang had some serious medical issues to deal with and along with Shelly decided that they needed to help out their sister, Lorie, by moving her across from Nebraska where there was nobody to support her. Lorie, who was to become another of my adoptees when I next visited. As time moved on there was a major shake-up in Shelly's life and she was forced to make some important decisions, I was glad I was able to give her some moral support via phone calls. She and Ang were stressed enough dealing with Lorie's problems, many prayers were shared. And I felt I had to find out if Leslie wanted me to be in touch too. And what a time it was in her life! I sent a text message, she messaged back that I should phone her, then she unloaded all the sad details of what was happening in her life... it was about the same time as she was expressing her pain in this thread: It seems that when I called Leslie was sitting looking at the adoption certificate and wondering if she would ever hear from me again. She had it on a shelf with the other important things she had. The urn with her husband's ashes among them... ...and she had written alongside of this picture in a Facebook post how much my support for her on this forum meant. Just how is a man supposed to feel when he learns that for years this certificate had pride of place and that she hoped to hear from me again? By the way, the final part of the certificate reads: "This certificate shall remain in force up to and including the moment of the resurrection of both parents of the adopted child." All of this was stirring in me. These girls were looking upon me as was intended, as their father, it was no longer as it began - a light-hearted arrangement. It was becoming, I guess, like finding a long lost natural child. I had to start making plans for my next trip to America. But first I had to make contact once again with Summer...
  10. https://www.jw.org/finder?srcid=share&wtlocale=E&lank=pub-jwb-137_1_VIDEO
  11. NWP and NWS Mobile have new updates today. NWS Mobile has added a few more features.
  12. The Philippines has just experienced a 6.0 earthquake and a violent volcanic eruption.🙈 😢
  13. Again and again, we keep getting posts using words that have already been used, are not last words or in some other way non sequitur.
  14. Same here, however it seems pretty basic and I created several types of schedules for a variety of situations. I even used it to notify the BOE they were test schedules.
  15. Hi, it would be a nice change to make to the program. The administrator can only make updates after our approval. I've often had trouble because they were impatient, and sometimes I had to restore from a save. I'd also ask for the option for the territory servant to be able to assign territories from the app. I don't know how they gave this option: 1) to elders (and it's fine), 2) to servants, 3) to pioneers, and 4) to all brothers. But they never thought it would be more appropriate to give the territory servant this option. Hugs.
  16. Pen and paper! Use the forms provided by the organization. Territory servants gave you an actual map, and recorded it on the form. You used S-4s to record NH and calls. Meeting overseers gave you an assignment slip. Other schedules on the notice board. It worked in the past, and no admin problems. Using apps may be a modern way of doing things. Not always a better way though. NWS is an app for everything. Is that good? Pros and cons, putting all your eggs in a one basket, as the saying goes. When problems occur, it can also affect everything. In the past I have used an Excel spreadsheet, then CLM Explorer to make the midweek meeting schedules. No issues with it. We have used WhatsApp and created a congregation information/notice board group. Schedules and letters in PDF format, and announcements were posted to the group for all to see. It worked. Hourglass in another we have used in past so publishers can submit reports.
  17. Afford yourself the quiet moments that let you hear your thoughts clearly again.
  18. Maybe something about a new Medical Card? Blood issue. What if it could be digital? On our phones, connected to our jw app.
  19. I would be willing to pay more so that others could have it completely free and the workers could have a living wage. I am sure there is a way to set that up. KHS offers their software for free to full time servants so I know there is a way to charge some and offer it for free to others.
  20. Have you also met the Brother acting as Jesus? Aaaah!!! His demeanor is exactly how I imagine Jesus when reading the Gospel accounts..
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      *** w15 6/1 p. 5 How Science Affects Your Life ***
      The Bible fixes no duration for the six creative “days.” Instead, it opens the door for modern scientists to study them and assign accurate time spans to them. We know that the creative “days” were much longer than 24-hour days.
       
      *** g21 No. 3 p. 12 What the Bible Tells Us ***
      So each of the six creative “days” during which God prepared the earth for life and created life on it could represent extremely long periods of time.
       
      *** g 1/14 p. 12 Creation ***
      WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS God created the universe, including the earth, in the indefinite past—“in the beginning,” as Genesis 1:1 says. Modern science agrees that the universe had a beginning. A recent scientific model suggests it to be almost 14 billion years old.
       
      *** lc pp. 26 Science and the Genesis Account ***
      A careful consideration of the Genesis account reveals that events starting during one “day” continued into one or more of the following “days.”
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      My dear, dear brother. You may be physically alone. But you are not alone. Of course you have Jehovah and his invisible family, all there. Then, us in our pitiful state, are here too. Loving you, and praying for you and you dear Cate. 
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      Even in my own circumstances, I find myself using my albuterol inhaler and nearly having asthma attacks, despite growing out of that many years ago.  Now it's back...  😔
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    • Kiana Williamson

      My spiritual routine is… sorely lacking order…
       
      My list of personal study projects only keeps growing, and it seems I cannot finish even one. I am absolutely terrible at study. My brain just doesn’t seem to “go off,” but at the same time, nothing ever gets accomplished 😵‍💫
       
      Like now—I found a JW-friendly app (Personal Bible Trainer). I chose to read the Bible from scratch, both the Old and New Testament, and it gives a challenge, goal, or thought to focus on with the chapters (or part of a chapter) you’re reading. I also decided to highlight my Bible while I’m at it so I know for sure I read the chapters. Then I remembered I had started writing down the characters mentioned, so I don’t forget who was in the chapter, when, where, and in what order. And then there’s the daily text and weekly meeting study… it’s just all horror!
       
      Just from this, you can probably see my mind is absolute chaos 🤯 My brain feels like a bag filled with water—but full of holes.
       
      I’ve cut back on work due to my health slowly deteriorating. Now I’m only working 2 days a week instead of 4. I stopped going out in field service and have been asking others not to invite me because I keep having to cancel last minute due to my mystery illness/condition.
       
      Now I really need ideas that might help plug these holes—so I can actually retain information and build a study routine that works for me. I can’t even remember how I was able to handle so many subjects back in my school days 😮‍💨
       
      I know most brothers and sisters have families, strong spiritual routines, and goals that help them stay focused on spreading the good news of the Kingdom. Being in the truth by myself, I’m doing everything solo. And over the years—with moving to an actual home, changing congregations, and now my health failing at this age… anything I once had in mind spiritually (like learning a new language, LDC, or working on projects like Ramapo) is gone, and my zeal has almost fizzled out.
       
      I had some shepherding calls after isolating myself for so long and not attending meetings for a few months. The elders reminded me that there are people who care about me, even when life gets in the way—and that isolation won’t help. And they’re right… it doesn’t.
       
      The only thing that kept me going—then and even now—are Jesus’ words and Peter’s response after many stopped following him:
       
      “So Jesus said to the Twelve: ‘You do not want to go also, do you?’ Simon Peter answered him: ‘Lord, whom shall we go away to? You have sayings of everlasting life. We have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy One of God.’” — John 6:67–69
       
      Right now, I’m just trying to focus on getting my mind back into studying properly and maybe having a good comment at the meetings again.
       
      Any advice you may have that could help—I would really appreciate it. Otherwise, please just keep me in your prayers. 🙏🏼 
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