during a comment on the service meeting last night i had to repeat myself 3 times and the brother still couldn't understand what i was saying. stupid congestion.

Maybe it was the accent. :)

ha no no. he also said he had a hard time hearing me during my talk. my head is so congested that i am having trouble with volume. also, the brothers in our hall have a policy that they don't ad...

that sounds like a dumb policy. isn't that why we have microphones, so we can hear everyone. maybe they are too busy (not enough brothers) to handle this little thing.