Witness1970

Brother

Randall

Married since August, 1972

North Carolina, United States

Yes

Yes

My story is quite long. I first became involved with Jehovah's Witnesses in 1958. My father began studying with the Witnesses and I sat in on all the studies. My cousins would come to visit but I preferred to sit there in the study while my siblings and cousins played outside. We had just begun to attend the Kingdom Hall when my father was diagnosed with Leukemia. After staying in the hospital for a while my father died in January 1960. I was almost 11 years old.
My mother returned to the Baptist Church and took me, my two younger sisters, and my younger brother along. I had two older sisters that were more or less on their own. I still believed what little I had learned and when asked to read a scripture in high school (in 1965) I read Psalms 83:18.
In 1969, I was visiting at my older sisters house. She had gone shopping with my mother. I answered a knock on the door. It was a circuit servant and the congregation servant's wife calling. I accepted a bible study.
Over the next few months, everyone in my family studied the bible. I was baptized in 1970 and got married in 1972. My wife and I attended the Kingdom Hall fairly regularly, even though I had a crazy work schedule, until about 1980. We slowly drifted away from the meetings.
There was a time when I would get home after working all night and go to the meeting with virtually no sleep.

After 1980, I rarely attended meetings at all. We were just drifting along. We did almost nothing about he truth until late 1987 when we moved to another state. We started attending meetings and studied for a while with an elder there.
In 1989 we moved to another city and attended some meetings there but were never regular. I retired in Oct, 2010 and started attending meetings regularly. That was one of my goals that helped me decide to retire.
My daughter bought a house and my wife and I moved there with her after her husband died. We stayed there for over a year and then bought a house close by in June 2012. Since moving that time we both have been attending more regularly.
My determination now is to stay with the truth and live my life for Jehovah.

Preaching, Science

Science Fiction (good science fiction, not the garbage some people call science fiction)

Songs from Sing to Jehovah songbook, Instrumentals like Yanni, I actually like a lot of different kinds of music as long as it does not advocate violence or immorality or false religion.

Science fiction or science documentaries

Revelation 21:3,4