How many letters to Russia from our members?

[Sunnyside]

"Personal letters should be mailed no later than April 1, 2017."
I'm pretty sure that about an hour ago, all times zones are now April 2nd... well done everyone! I'm sure the totals will draw worldwide attention. Now we must await and see what unfolds in Russia.

Maybe we're sent before but only noting on the forum now.

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[Julieann]

I sent mine this past Monday. So:

2169 + 6 = 2175

[JJMS]

2175  + 2 = 2177

 

I sent mine last Friday...

The Russia Embassy here was crowded by brothers delivering letters.

Edited April 3, 2017 by carlos

[hatcheckgirl]

So is that the last one, then?  Would be interesting to collate how many and averages, but prolly it would be a monumental task.  Sometimes numbers are meaningless anyway, and we are way too absorbed in the stats.  We are just happy we all played a collective part in doing this in support of our family in Russia  .

[pnutts]

Last 4 went out to Russian Embassy in Ottawa = 2181

[Tortuga]

4 hours ago, JJMS said:

2175  + 2 = 2177

 

I sent mine last Friday...

The Russia Embassy here was crowded by brothers delivering letters.

 

Have you heard anything about the Russian Embassy refusing to accept the letters?

 

There is one report that Putin has told the embassies to refuse the letters, It would be nice to confirm that with a second report before we share it...

[Araujo JW]

29 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

Have you heard anything about the Russian Embassy refusing to accept the letters?

 

There is one report that Putin has told the embassies to refuse the letters, It would be nice to confirm that with a second report before we share it...

I know of at least one country where this happened: Colombia

 

 

Russian ambassador to Colombia is returning the brothers' letters. The following sentence is written on it as you can see:
"Mr. Arcadio Zurin refuses to receive because they are letters of Jehovah's Witnesses"

[Omoyeme]

No surprise! With all the hatred towards Jehovah's Witnesses from the Kremlin, I truly believe that if the angel Gabriel came down from heaven to personally deliver a letter to Arcadio Zurin, he would be refused as well! 

[ChocoBro]

7 hours ago, Omo_Yeme said:

No surprise! With all the hatred towards Jehovah's Witnesses from the Kremlin, I truly believe that if the angel Gabriel came down from heaven to personally deliver a letter to Arcadio Zurin, he would be refused as well! 

Prize quiz. There is another institution else in a state of denial / refusal as well. Just as bad as the Russian government in my opinion. But 90% of the members on jwtalk trust it.

 

Can anyone guess who I mean?

 

It's the media. Where is the Putin-bashing now? Where are worldwide CNN reports about this? We are talking possibly millions of letters. And not even a side-note?

 

The media are even more scared of us.

[wjv]

20 hours ago, Araujo JW said:

I know of at least one country where this happened: Colombia

 

 

Russian ambassador to Colombia is returning the brothers' letters. The following sentence is written on it as you can see:
"Mr. Arcadio Zurin refuses to receive because they are letters of Jehovah's Witnesses"

 

 

Hello brothers. I received that message, but I doubt it is true. Russian embassy is in Bogota not in Pereira Risaralda. Ambassador's name is  Mr Vladimir Trujanovski . Please check it in http://www.embaixadas.net/1/20330/Russia-em-Bogota.

Edited April 4, 2017 by wjv

[Tortuga]

9 hours ago, ChocoBro said:

Where are worldwide CNN reports about this? We are talking possibly millions of letters. And not even a side-note?

The media are even more scared of us.

That's possibly, on the other hand it's possible the bulk of letters haven't arrived in Russia yet. It's possible the Russian postal system can handle millions of letters without any impact to the system. It's possible the main stream media just doesn't consider the situation newsworthy yet and are waiting for the court decision. 

 

It's possible that the results of the letter campaign will not be in the news at all, however we shouldn't become discouraged because we did what we were told to do.

 

Don't forget that every year over 8 million volunteers invite millions of people to the Memorial and Regional Conventions and the main stream media doesn't report it.

Edited April 4, 2017 by Tortuga

[Araujo JW]

2 hours ago, wjv said:

Hello brothers. I received that message, but I doubt it is true. Russian embassy is in Bogota not in Pereira Risaralda. Ambassador's name is  Mr Vladimir Trujanovski . Please check it in http://www.embaixadas.net/1/20330/Russia-em-Bogota.

 

 

3 hours ago, wjv said:

Hello brothers. I received that message, but I doubt it is true. Russian embassy is in Bogota not in Pereira Risaralda. Ambassador's name is  Mr Vladimir Trujanovski . Please check it in http://www.embaixadas.net/1/20330/Russia-em-Bogota.

 

Pereira Risalda is the city of the Sender, not the Embassy.

 

As for the ambassador's name, you're right, but the letter does not specify whether the return is the ambassador himself or someone who represents him in his office.

 

Anyway, there is doubt. Thanks for letting us know.

[Dustparticle]

 I heard that  about  5 million letters went out in USA alone.

[Tortuga]

3 hours ago, Dustparticle said:

 I heard that  about  5 million letters went out in USA alone.

Did 5 million people tell you they sent a letter? 

[Sallyforth]

It probably won't happen but I was wondering about the idea of including a special section on the field service reports just to list the letters sent to Russia. That would give a good idea of the numbers at least from Jehovah's people. 

[dove]

Guinness Book of Records Watching

Bible Friendly Books_ Worldwide Letter-writing Campaign Protests Proposed Religious Ban.html

[Tortuga]

32 minutes ago, Sallyforth said:

It probably won't happen but I was wondering about the idea of including a special section on the field service reports just to list the letters sent to Russia. That would give a good idea of the numbers at least from Jehovah's people. 

I hope it does happen. It would be nice to know.

[TrueTomHarley]

When Putin opens my letter, he will be disheartened. He will see several paragraphs. He will want with all his heart to read it, but he has several million other letters to get through. He will toss the letter.

He will then open the next letter and discover, as he suspected from the envelope, that it is from a child. It includes drawings, one of a sad little girl because Putin is being mean to her nice friends, and one from a happy little girl, because he has had a change of heart. Putin will smile faintly, for everyone loves children. He will put this letter aside. Possibly he will show it to his grandchildren someday.

He will open the next letter. It will also be from me – not the same letter, but worded and reasoned upon completely anew. He will roll his eyes. “Another letter from that windbag Harley,” he will mutter, and toss it in the trash.

How many letters will Putin get? Eight million, at a minimum, as every Witness in the world will write him. They only had to be invited once, and they instantly responded. Putin has never seen anything like it and he will not forget it. It will not necessarily melt his heart. It may make him mad. He has a country to run. He has a world infested with verbal assassins he must stay abreast of. He even has would-be physical assassins, and one of them succeeded in taking out his favorite limosine driver, a no-doubt decent man. So he may not like it that Jehovah’s Witnesses try to flood his Kremlin and paralyze him, like the Dr. Suess king mired in oobleck.

I apologize to him. I really do. Unfortunately, the well-being of my brothers is at stake, and we feel we must get his attention somehow. He is being given bad advice by religionists. If he takes it, he will look like an utter fool on the world stage because nobody can read JW materials, online or in print, and think them extremist. Perhaps he should get mad at those who would maneuver him into such a ridiculous position.

Most likely, the eight million is just for starters. Six addresses are listed. Many Witnesses will send their same letter to all six, bringing the total to – say, 30 million. Yuri will not be jealous that Dmitry received the same letter as he. Some comfortable in writing will compose several letters and send each to all six. Make that 50 million. Then there will be non-Witness, human rights people. These will write in numbers of far less percentage, but there are far more of them. There will be some who don’t like Jehovah’s Witnesses and support the ban. Not to mention outright opposers who will be cheerleaders for him to take harsher measures. Will that bring the total to 60 million? More? Your guess is as good as mine.

Will letters from opposers fool him? I doubt it. He will say: “Look, I can see why Harley would write me, and all his 8 million chums. But what about this loser? Is he pretending he is somehow my friend who would warn me of a great danger? Is he not part of the general world who was last week (in the U.S.) called me a thug and a murderer?”

Putin may have them all sunk at sea and never read one. But he cannot fail to know of their existence and will perhaps wonder: ‘what would the world be like if everyone behaved as do these JWs, transcending national, racial, and social divisions to show loving concern for their spiritual brothers?

[ChocoBro]

On 8.4.2017 at 10:57 PM, Tortuga said:

I hope it does happen. It would be nice to know.

They could do a separate, anonymous field service report where all you have to write is the number of letters and then throw it in the reports box.

[Tortuga]

39 minutes ago, ChocoBro said:

They could do a separate, anonymous field service report where all you have to write is the number of letters and then throw it in the reports box.

Yeah, although I don't see why we couldn't include it with our normal report.

[Tortuga]

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Tortuga said:

When do we start Phase 2?

Soon I hope....

[kejedo]

Just got scolded by an elder. I asked him is he heard any updates about Russia. He said things are going well and not to say anything different b/c I would be gossiping false rumor, and nothing else has been reported on the official website. According to brother elder, it looks  like the trial is currently going favorably for 'us.'

 

[Luezette]

Pauline, point taken!  Thank you.

So I will not say anything about the results, as in knowing of it. I'll just continue commenting about their faith and Jehovah. 

Whew! 

 

Edited April 20, 2017 by Luezette

[Old]

25 minutes ago, kejedo said:

Just got scolded by an elder. I asked him is he heard any updates about Russia. He said things are going well and not to say anything different b/c I would be gossiping false rumor, and nothing else has been reported on the official website. According to brother elder, it looks  like the trial is currently going favorably for 'us.'

 

Brother is over reaching I think.

Brother Elder has his head in the sand, or ABC, CBS, Reuters, USA Today have all conspired to mislead their readers.

[Loopy]

2 minutes ago, Old said:

Brother is over reaching I think.

Brother Elder has his head in the sand, or ABC, CBS, Reuters, USA Today have all conspired to mislead their readers.

Thank you Br. Jerry. I was kind of wondering about that myself.