REPORTS & MOVING!                 DFO 314C        8/74
MO's Worldwide Family Newsletters No.16, 17 & 18

         1. I'M GOING TO SUGGEST HEREAFTER THAT YOU TRY TO LIMIT YOUR REPORTS TO EITHER ONE OR TWO PAGES at the most, either on thin airmail paper to save us all postage, or on both sides of one of those heavier sheets, if you must go over one page. Meanwhile, I'm going to give you advance warning that I'm going to make it a rule that if your reports exceed one page, I will only read the underlinings.
         2. IF THEY ARE ONLY ONE PAGE IN LENGTH, I WILL READ EVERY WORD IMMEDIATELY, but if they are over one page in length, I will only read what you have underlined. This should save us both some time, as I don't think it's necessary to rehash the same old subjects over & over again in every report.
         3. SO REMEMBER: ONE PAGE & I READ IT ALL; MORE THAN ONE PAGE & I ONLY READ WHAT YOU'VE UNDERLINED! As you'll note, I've always tried to do some underlining of my own Letters to help call your attention to the various subjects & what I think most important, so why don't you try to do the same? Some of you have done this well in the past, but you're slipping a little, & we've received a number of very voluminous reports with lengthy paragraphs & no underlining. One look at one of these wears me out before I even get started, & I figure, why read it, especially if I have to dig it out that hard, when it's just the same old problems over again!
         4. THESE LENGTHY NON-UNDERLINED REPORTS DISCOURAGE US FROM THE START, & if you keep it up, I may decide to do what I did once before, simply refuse to read reports at all & leave that all up to you, & just stick to doing the Lord's Letters! We'd probably get a lot further in the long run, because your problems are endless & you'll always have them & the Lord will always help to take care of them somehow.
         5. I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY I SHOULD GET INVOLVED AT ALL, EXCEPT IN CASES OF MAJOR DECISIONS or major changes which could affect the overall Work & which you do not want to make on your own without consulting with me & the Lord. But I get my information from the same Source as you should be getting yours, the Lord, so I don't know why you can't go ahead & make most of these decisions on your own with His help.
         6. IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU GO AHEAD WITH MAJOR OPERATIONS THAT AFFECT MY PRODUCTIONS WITHOUT ADVANCE NOTICE OR EXPLAINING WHY, that I sometimes get a little upset.
         7. IF YOU'D SEE THE REAM OF PAPER I HAVE STACKED IN MY LAP of all your letters & reports of only the past two or three weeks, you'd understand what I'm talking about & why I insist that you MUST try to abbreviate your reports from now on. We just haven't time to read so much if we're going to give proper attention to our other more important duties, & you're wasting your own time as well in relating to me so many details which are important to YOU but which are not necessary for ME to know or be bothered with.
         8. SO MAY GOD HELP YOU TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT I HAVE TO KNOW & WHAT YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME! I certainly hope this will help cut down this flood of paper I'm getting & save us ALL time! God help us all to try to adhere to these rules! There is such a thing as "Paper Power", but when the PAPER MONSTER begins to become your MASTER instead of your SERVANT, it's gone too far! So please, please try to cut down on the size of these bulky reports! Amen?

OFFICE MOVES!

         9. OUR HEADQUARTERS NEEDS TO BE A LITTLE MORE STATIONARY & ESTABLISHED THAN IT HAS BEEN SO WE CAN GET ON WITH MORE IMPORTANT WORK THAN CONSTANTLY MOVING.
         10. THE KIDS CAN LIVE ALMOST ANYWHERE under almost any conditions & it should be no great strain on them to have to move their bodies around a little with as few personal possessions as they should have. But our main offices with all their furniture, equipment, files etc., should have some kind of a more permanent home, & not be worried with moving all the time, stopping everything for frequent moves! There surely must be a BETTER way! God help us to FIND it!
         11. EVEN MOVING EVERY SIX MONTHS WITH OUR OFFICE IS TOO MUCH OF A CHORE! If you could separate the HOUSING from the OFFICES, I believe more permanent offices would be possible. Surely we can afford this now, as God is blessing our income, & it seems this would solve your problem. It would certainly make for better SECURITY to SEPARATE the HOUSING from the OFFICES! So why don't you try to go ahead on the problem from THIS angle? This may be the answer! PTL!
         12. IT SEEMS RATHER RIDICULOUS TO JEOPARDISE EACH OF OUR HEADQUARTERS OPERATIONS & VITAL COMMUNICATIONS CENTRES FOR PUBLISHING, ADMINISTRATION ETC., FOR A WHOLE COUNTRY, just because of a few little local litnessing problems! Seems to me it would be better to keep our OFFICES intact & give them a more permanent home so they wouldn't be constantly hassled with moving or harassed by police problems, even if we had to pull our kids completely off the streets of ONE city or even one problem DISTRICT if necessary in order to keep serving the whole REGION!
         13. TO CUT OFF A FEW FINGERS OR TOES IS BETTER THAN LOSING OUR HEAD! Some of you are now registered & recognised & over THAT hump! Let's hang onto it & not jeopardise it with constant moving or even LOCAL lit! You remember this is what I first suggested months ago, & I think it's the only way you're going to find a permanent home.

HELPMEATS!

         14. EACH OF US NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE CARE OF US, & that's what WIVES & HUSBANDS are for, or WHOEVER your helpmeet is!
         15. MATES ARE TO HELP YOUR MEAT & see that you get it in due season. It's not very smart not to ADMIT this, too, & not permit SOMEONE to take care of you as you have need, & not taking care of YOURSELF or letting SOMEONE take care of you is being INTEMPERATE, IMMODERATE & ABUSING your body! To "die daily" does not mean to KILL yourself off PHYSICALLY with OVERWORK & too many responsibilities & worries!
         16. GOD DOESN'T PUSH HIS HELP ON PEOPLE WHEN THEY REJECT IT, & especially when they don't appreciate it & REFUSE to cooperate with Him! He just walks off & leaves them alone & lets them suffer the consequences to teach them a good lesson to be a little more attentive, obedient & cooperative NEXT time!
         17. SO MAY THE LORD TEACH YOU ALL A LESSON TO TAKE BETTER CARE OF YOURSELF or let SOMEONE take care OF you, & STOP ABUSING your BODY with OVERWORK & WORRY! But we're also hoping He will use the illness of some to shake some of the REST of you out of your selfishness & lethargy & unconcern for OTHERS, if not outright jealous opposition!
         18. EVERYONE NEEDS A CHANGE ONCE IN AWHILE. ANY situation can get on one's nerves after AWHILE until you could almost scream!--Just try not to scream at each OTHER, as this can also get on YOUR nerves as well as those of your FLOCKS!

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