Posted by:
roomwithaview
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Date: October 21, 2016 05:26PM
Nevermo here. This morning I received a call from an LDS missionary serving in my area. She said her records indicated missionaries had visited me before. I told her that was correct. However, I said they only came because my son sent them (2 years in a row) as an April Fool's prank. (Both visits, I was nice and apologized for my son's wasting their time. The second year, when they offered me a BOM, I offered them each copies of "No Man Knows My History". I didn't take the BOM, but they were happy to take NMKMH when I told them it was about Joseph Smith. They'd never heard of the book before.)
The missionary who called today asked if I was interested in having missionaries visit now. I told her, very politely, "no" and that I definitely have no interest in being Mormon now or ever, not in a million years, not for a million dollars, not when I'm dead, etc.
Instead of just hanging up, I quickly and still very politely told her that I found it highly disturbing that Joseph Smith married teenage children and other men's wives and that I have no respect for a man of that character. She didn't say anything, so I kept talking. I asked her if she had read the CES Letter. She said she didn't know what it was and asked me to spell it again.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I was also contacted by an LDS missionary over a year ago. I thought it was another prank when he said he was "Elder Sins". His actual last name is close to that, I'd just misheard it, so we laughed about that. I remember telling him the same thing--that the previous visits were only April Fool's jokes and no way would I ever want to be Mormon. The plural marriage essay had been released when he called, and I asked him questions about it. He told me that Joseph Smith was never married or sealed to anyone other than Emma, and that what I told him (straight from the LDS church's website) was all a lie. I told him to ask a supervisor about the info I shared with him, and then he was welcome to call me back if what I told him was not true. He did call back but just to have me repeat what I had already told him, which I did. Then he never called again.
I guess I'm kind of surprised that if the LDS church keeps a database of investigators/inquiries, why they don't bother to keep notes on people like me who are definitely not serious prospects and are even anti-LDS.