We had a strong desire to speak to others about the things we were learning, so we started in the door-to-door ministry with the tract Message of Hope.

When we distributed the tract Message of Hope, children gathered around us shouting “Millennialists” and other derogatory terms. My husband’s colleagues also began causing trouble for him. Late in 1926 he was brought to trial, charged with being unfit to be a public-school teacher, and sentenced to 15 days in prison.

When Mother learned of this, she advised me to leave my husband. “Listen, my dear mother,” I replied, “you know as well as I do how much I love and respect you. But I simply cannot let you stand in the way of our worshiping the true God, Jehovah.” She left for her village bitterly disappointed.