I was so annoyed last night - I had a talk, my first in this hall. I'd told the overseer that I didn't mind giving talks on short notice, so I was at the top of the schedule this time; I got the slip the sunday before (we have a thursday school). That sunday, I approached my householder, a younger girl, who my bookstudy told me just graduated 8th grade and was obsessed with being a "grown up". I asked her if she needed a lot of time to prepare, and she said no. I got her email and phone number and told her I'd email her the talk then call her to go over it. Fine.

So I wrote the talk and emailed it to her yesterday afternoon at about 2:30, thinking she'd read it once or twice, then I called her at 5:30.
Me: So did you get the talk?
Her: No.
Me: Uh, ok, did you check your email?
Her: No.
Me: Ok, well I sent it this afternoon, do you want to check your email now?
Her: Uh, my mom wants to talk to you.

Her mom then proceeded to basically chastise me for putting too much pressure on her daughter by giving her a talk "so last minute". I wanted to jump through the phone and punch her! What would her little princess do if someone asked her in school why she doesn't celebrate holidays? Say she needs a week to prepare an answer?

After calling about 5 sisters, I finally found one to do the talk with me, and it went fine, the sister was really nice and she did a great job. Then the little girl saw me in the bathroom and said, "I'm sorry I didn't want to do the talk, I just don't like doing things last minute." I told her she should let the overseer know so that doesn't happen again. The sister who bailed me out said she wasn't surprised that the girl didn't want to do it because she's "a little princess". I told the overseer what happened while he was giving me my counsel, and he apologized for matching me with her, saying she'd done that before. Not being raised in the truth, it's completely beyond me why these kids join the school just to make their parents happy - it was obvious that this kid didn't want to do the talk. So aggravating.