HISTORY:
Where I live, Canada, Quebec, Montreal, the quantity of door knockers was high.
It was purely Jewhova witnesses.
They would come and knock maybe 2 or 3 times a year.
They also hang around in the subway like 20 h a day.
For some reason, they seem to have stopped knocking on doors, I think 10 y ago.

THE QUESTIONS:
What about mormons? How often do they come and knock? Did they stop?
Do they have to come multiple times, like 3 times a year and knock on the same door or do they have an exclusion list.

~~~~iceman9090

It depends on the policies of whoever is in charge and also on how many options the missionaries happen to have for spending their time.

Cheryl Wrote:
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What has your personal experience been when they came to knock on your door?
What about your friends, family members?

~~~~iceman9090

I had told mormons for over 25 years that I was no longer a mormon and they should stay away from my home. I never let them in and I didn't go out or try to chat about mormon topics with them. Just said, "No. Don't come back."

My never-mo husband was furious whenever they showed up and I finally promised him to go to the police if they didn't stay away.

The police chief phoned the bishop, the mission president and the stake president and told them to keep their representatives away from me.

So when they still showed up one day, I quietly said I'd have to hose them if they weren't gone by the time I unrolled the hose and turned it on. They smirked at me and said I'd never do it, but I did. They didn't move toward their car until sprinkles tickled their ankles. That episode convinced them.

They did eventually return many years later, but that's a different story.

For mormons it’s all based on inspiration.

Where would mormonism be today without inspiration!?

elderolddog Wrote:
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What has your personal experience been when they came to knock on your door?
What about your friends, family members?

~~~~iceman9090

When speaking politely, people describe me as a bit outspoken. But the cold, hard truth is I am an be a total a**hole, or ass*olé, which I prefer.

When it came to JWs, back when they still went door to door, my go-to tactic was to ask an innocent question and then interrupt the attempt to answer and then never give up the podium. It’s fun, AND it’s funny.

When an attempt to rush the podium was made, I would just pick it up and stay out of reach, but not out of preach. Eventually, as if it came as a revelation, the announcement was made, “We’re wasting our time!”

The women would scrunch up their eyebrows a bit; the men would get visibly annoyed, get a bit huffy & puffy! ...a difference of opinion regarding my duty to them as door-to-door mendicants obviously existed.

Whatever topic they got me on, I just kept nattering on. I am easily amused.

Two of my three BIC kids are out of the church. My one TBM daughter and her husband made an effort to preach to me once but gave up when hearing truthiness became uncomfortable. I’m sure their testimonies remain strong, since ‘facts’ only mean what one believes they mean.

No, it's not inspiration. It's a calculated sales attack plan. They're not knocking on random doors, they're targeting mormons that no longer attend and people that are never-mo's. They report back as to their reception and results and then alter their game plan. It's a highly orchestrated sales force.

Thanks stillanon

Now I won't have to answer.

I really appreciate it.

Calculating
Targeting
Cunning

"highly orchestrated salesforce"

Couldn't I have said it better myself... and still try to squeeze that nap in.

Thank you. As an industry professional that has been through sales training courses held by IBM, Xerox, 3M, etc, I can tell you that LDS Inc. employ all their tactics, plus with a free salesforce.

Well, I never got that nap, but, haahha, yep, that relentless, indoctrinated, free and hungry salesforce. They think they are doing good, but it's all hand-me-down instructions.

Missionaries don't work.
They simply go on "missions", which means anything and nothing: FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS, worker bees.

Yes, the Jehovah Witnesses have come to knock on my door. I ask them to come in to my home, and immediately, I ask them what Bible they use for their proselytizing--as they like to quote from their "own" bible. Then, I bring out my bible, to show them the difference between the two.

When this happens, they "have to leave now", and then make a note in their little book as to what address they shouldn't come to visit anymore.

Works swell. :)

I read the question a little different.

Mormons will knock and knock and knock.

Then try the door.

Then knock and knock and knock.

The look in the windows.

Then knock and knock and knock.

Then go around back.

Knock and knock and knock.

Finally they go around front and knock and knock.

Then try the door again.

Maybe call and call and call in between.

Finally they'll pray and see if it's okay to go on.

Sometimes they start the process over again.

Heartless Wrote:
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> Mormons will knock and knock and knock. Then try the door.
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> Then knock and knock and knock. ... look in the windows.

> Then knock and knock and knock. Then go around back. Knock and knock and knock.
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> Finally they go around front and knock and knock. Then try the door again. Maybe call and call and call in between. Finally they'll pray and see if it's okay to go on.

> Sometimes they start the process over again. >

You mean even before finishing the initial process? G-

Once, when leaving TMC, about 9-10 years ago, I thought about placing a sign on the front door: "Mormons Use Other Door" (or Missionaries " " ").

Then, on 'the other door', a sign would read "No, Other Door"...

THEN, on another door, the sign might read [THERE IS] "No Other Door"...

Not only that, the signs would be switched 'in between knocks'.

I never had to do that though. After a few bumps at church, home, and in virtual land, and as they realized I cursed, smoked, drank, researched and compared, screwed around and hung out with other socialites, artists, intellectuals, Christians, and-the-like, and after a rabid anti-mormon experience or two, they realized it wasn't worth it. I was too hard to trap and since they were square for me, I wouldn't be there for them.

I am here for life
Not dogma or craziness

Knockers are good

Knock yourself out...

But don't get worked up, I mean knocked up, I mean out about it.

Over and Out

Cue What Knockers! scene from Young Frankenstein.

I would be remiss if I didn't bear my testimony ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC8EpHIckRU

I'd like to point out that the general LDS membership does not go around "door knocking". They do sometimes show up unannounced at a less-active or former member's house, but that is usually on assignment to reactive, rather than a general spreading of the word.

I think most Mormons would find the JW style door knocking extremely uncomfortable. Even LDS missionaries generally hate it, but they need to find something to do all day.

I worked graveyard, came home, watched a little morning TV, then stripped and went to bed in my boxers. Sometime in the early afternoon they bang away at my door. I answered the door in my boxers rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. They'd leave....

It depends entirely on the size of the area.

My greenie area was huge, with just one pair of Elders working it. Even if we had tracted all day, every day, we couldn't have knocked on every single street, in under two years & of course you never catch everyone at home whatever time of the day you call. So I'd guess that there are people in that city who have never answered the door to the Mormons.

On the other hand, my second area was a small town, with a few surrounding villages. By the end of my three month stint there, I was knocking the same streets for the second time.

Exactly the same!

Mexico City (DF)

then later

Cuautlo, Morelos, Mexico


ETA: ever tract out a 'red light district'?



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No, but I'd be delighted to be pretend to be your 'companion' if you want to to try ;-)

You could help him procure an Education Anglaise.

What movie is this from, when the bordello blows up?


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Sounds like Mel Brooks to me...

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