Posted by:
Breeze
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Date: April 21, 2015 07:18PM
AT least you've been getting the nice kind of visitors. We did at first, but the longer we stayed inactive, the nastier the visitors became. They threatened us, that we would fail financially, if I didn't start paying tithing again. They threatened that I would get sicker. (I resigned playing the organ, because I was terribly sick, and they didn't like having to find another organist) My visitors were all men, in groups of two or three, and would usually come late at night. I wondered if they would have been as nasty if I'd had a husband. I was a single mother, and these men were very intimidating, well, bullying! They wouldn't use the doorbell, but would bang loudly on the door, and they would not stop banging, until I answered. I guess they knew I was home. If the doorbell rang, during normal hours of the day, I knew it probably was not the Mormons.
The only way we could stop this harassment was to formally resign, together as a family, and request NO CONTACT. Your bishop will read your resignation letter, as it is forwarded to him. Mormons still contacted us, anyway, and have over the last 7 years, I just say, "We're Lutherans, now. Goodbye."
As for fellowshipping, I like Truenomore's response.
When a Mormon says to my friend, "We miss you," my friend responds with, "Exactly what do you miss?" It is fun to watch how this puts Mormons on the spot.
Do they miss the friendly chats in the hallway, or during coffee time between meetings--oh, that's right, no talking in the hallways. No mingles.
Do they miss calling you on the phone to talk, meeting you for lunch or for a frozen yogurt, going on a walk around the neighborhood with you, going to a motive together, having you and your family over for dinner, even setting foot in each other's houses (for other than an assigned church activity) playing with you at the picnics and beach parties, keeping track on how each other is doing and how your children are doing, laughing with you, supporting each other in hard times, celebrating with you in your successes? This is what friends do--in fact even ONE of these things would have made been neighborly.
Exactly what do they miss?