Anonymous wrote:I ask them about the fraud that is Joe Smith and the Book of Mormon. It is actually a good conversation usually.

What do they say in response?

OP, my husband does the same thing. He entertains everyone who comes to the door. He is super friendly and just can't say, "no, thank you, were are not interested."

He will just stand there and entertain them. Last time the same guys trying to get a donation came by twice during the day. I was nice but told them I had already donated. Then they came back a third time at 8pm. Ugh..super annoying. DH opened the door after I told him it was the same guy who came by twice already. Then he tries to be super nice and could barely get them to leave. Ugh.

I ask them about the fraud that is Joe Smith and the Book of Mormon. It is actually a good conversation usually.

did your mom give them a tip?

Anonymous wrote:Ask them to do stuff for you. "Sure, we can talk about Jesus visiting the Indians between his crucifixion and resurrection. While you're here, would you please dust the top of the chandelier? I can't reach it."

I once asked a couple of them to carry my groceries when they approached me on the sidewalk.

I agree about them being nice young men, kind of lonely and getting a lot of nastiness. So give a little, get a little. And enjoy the story. It's a doozy.

My mom actually did this thirty years ago with two Mormon missionaries. They came to the door while she was waxing the hardwood floors on the main floor of the house, and she told them she would talk religion with them if they helped her wax the floors. So they stayed and worked for several hours, failed to convert her, then never came back. My mom says they were too scared of more work to come back, but at least they got out of knocking on doors for the rest of that day!

they are doing their compulsory 2 year missions
They are not interested in you, just want their 2 years to be over.
They have elders watching their every move. Creepy

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Reading compression obviously isn't your strong suit. She said people posing as LDS were a possible threat, not actual ones.

Is this all hitting too close to home? Remembering all the slammed doors in your face while on mission?

OMG. Can't you die already? We all recognize your style. You start off with something about reading comprehension. Then you totally twist what some PP said. This is for the great goal of -- wait for it -- stirring up some flame war on religion or politics. Just die, please.

WTF are you talking about? I don't know who you think I am, but I hardly post on politics or religion enough to have a recognizable "style".

And what's your Religion/belief system that you would wish death on someone with an opinion that differs than yours. Shame on you.

No really. Anybody who pulls the ad hominem "reading comprehension" thing, then does the twist-your-words-beyond-recognition thing, then wraps up with a probably unfounded accusation about slamming doors -- needs to be locked up and kept away from the adults.

It takes one to know one.

It takes on

Maybe you could have asked them for the name and number of their supervisor, not God, of course, and called to complain about their tactics. I don't know if their supervisor would approve or disapprove though.

About 730 this evening, there was a knock at the door, and it was the two boys and they said "can we use the restroom?" DH said yes (I was angered by this); one of them used the restroom and when he finished, they lingered in the foyer and tried to strike up conversations about Mormonism and asking DH if he'd like an opportunity to learn more about it, etc. The restroom thing was clearly a ruse to get them into the house and that made me very angry! I know what DH needs to do -- needs to be firm and tell them to stop coming around, but he doesn't want to hurt their feelings. I am angry about the 'using the bathroom' thing because I feel like they crossed a line

Really? And you told your husband not to answer the door because it was too late at night? Are you his wife or his mommy? I'll bet your husband is perfectly capable of handling this all by himself. You are being very disrespectful towards him by acting as though he can't/won't handle this the way he wants to.

Also, every single Mormon I have ever met has been just lovely. We have had several stop by our house over the past couple of weeks. We've invited them in and discussed theology. They usually have really interesting stories to share. The last two young men that visited prayed with us. And one of them sang and played the ukelele. It was actually really nice.

We aren't Mormon and won't ever be. My husband and I made that very clear from the beginning. But we were able to do it in a polite way. You can disagree with someone without acting like an ass. And who knows....if you actually open your mind and listen, you might learn something. One of the young men actually asked me why I let them in. I answered honestly. I don't think there are any accidents in life. I believe that there was a reason God (or the universe) sent those young men to my door that day. There was something in that conversation that was important. I'm not yet sure exactly what that thing was. But I did make two friends.

I usually tell them we are comfortable in worshiping Satan. That usually stops them.

I would never let a stranger in to use the bathroom!

They aren't lonely; they are very well trained before departing on their missions. The "mission" being, of course, to convert.

I'm sure they are well trained. They are also human beings, and were clearly lonely. These are 18 or 19 year old boys who are sent away from their families, friends, everyone they know to try to convince people to join a religion that most people have no interest in. They live in a gross part of town and are only allowed to call their moms on mothers day. Other than that, just letters. I think it was pretty clear that DH wasn't going to get converted. He did have some interesting conversations with them about the mormon church's treatment of minorities that they really had no good response to (and admitted as much).

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Reading compression obviously isn't your strong suit. She said people posing as LDS were a possible threat, not actual ones.

Is this all hitting too close to home? Remembering all the slammed doors in your face while on mission?

OMG. Can't you die already? We all recognize your style. You start off with something about reading comprehension. Then you totally twist what some PP said. This is for the great goal of -- wait for it -- stirring up some flame war on religion or politics. Just die, please.

WTF are you talking about? I don't know who you think I am, but I hardly post on politics or religion enough to have a recognizable "style".

And what's your Religion/belief system that you would wish death on someone with an opinion that differs than yours. Shame on you.

No really. Anybody who pulls the ad hominem "reading comprehension" thing, then does the twist-your-words-beyond-recognition thing, then wraps up with a probably unfounded accusation about slamming doors -- needs to be locked up and kept away from the adults.

When Mormons come to my house I like to shoot them and make it look like a break-in. VA and Md are castle states, that means once people come into your house you can basically do what you like with them. Sometimes I feel a little guilty about this - they seem like such clean-cut young men - but then I remember that they will be gods on their own planet when they die, and I feel better about it.

I don't let strangers use my bathroom and would tell Mormons or JW's that I will enjoy their livers with chianti if they ever come back on my property.

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I thought there was some strict policy about them not coming into your house at all, even if invited in? (Sort of like, they have to wear ties and be in a pair.)

OP again. I also thought it was weird from their perspective, too, in terms of safety - I mean, they don't know us...when I was a teen, I wouldn't have felt safe/comfortable asking to use the restroom of someone I didn't know.