DISHONESTY REMOVED

In Italy, the woman who owned a store next to a convention site said to some of the Witnesses: “Yesterday I made a mistake in giving change to one of you. I gave the person 10,000 lire ($12, U.S.) more than he had coming. Well, a little later, he came back to return it to me. This has never happened as long as I have had this store.”

Just an isolated incident? No. The honesty of the Witnesses is well known. As she was paying her hotel bill by check, one of the conventioners in the United States asked if she needed some identification. “Oh, no!” replied the clerk. “If we can’t trust you people, whom can we trust?”

STRENGTH TO OVERCOME BAD HABITS

Perhaps you may know of some of your friends or neighbors whose lives were ruined because of slavery to bad habits, such as alcoholism, drug abuse or others. However, the Italian newspaper La Nazione reported: “Amongst them [newly baptized Witnesses] were ex-drug addicts, ex-alcoholics and persons of various ages who had found the strength to overcome serious family and social misfortunes.”

PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER

“Never would we have imagined that persons like you existed if we had not seen you at work with our own eyes,” observed the caretakers of the stadium in Ascoli Piceno, Italy. They watched the Witnesses remove all the chairs in the covered stands, clean under them and put them back. “To do a work of this kind for us would be unthinkable,” declared the caretakers. Yet when people love one another many “unthinkable” tasks can be done.