Posted by:
NormaRae
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Date: October 15, 2013 10:43PM
When I was a TBM and living in Utah, I knew (as far as someone I interracted with personally) exactly... hmmm, let me see.... one non mormon. That was my cousin's wife. Even after I was semi-active and then resigned my membership, I worked with one nevermo (in an office of about 70 people) and knew a bunch of other exmos, none of which were targets for member missionaries. Oh yes, there was a Russian couple who lived above me. They'd already told 200 people they were not interested.
So they send these little kids from Utah out on missions and they just can't understand why the locals are not following the words of the holyprofitogawd and inviting their friends and co-workers into their homes to hear the missionaries. After all, if they knew any non-mormons in their hometown, they'd do the same thing. Yeah right.
Members don't do it because it's embarrassing. They'd tick off their friends and co-workers and they know it. Life could get very uneasy for them. They all know their beliefs sound kooky (because they are). They know how stupid they must look to non-mormons (because they do). I knew it when it was me. I just hated that people in Utah thought the whole country/world was as easy for mormons as it is for them.