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cimoreneLast night three young mormon women on their mission came by while we were making dinner, but they almost spent NO time trying to convert me because they were all American, and I was literally the first door they knocked on, so they were like "No way? You're American too?!" and we kinda just chatted for ten minutes or so. I haven't talked to any Americans in quite a while (except my family in video chats).
I asked about them getting sent to Finland and how that happened and what it was like for them so far and told them I've seen plenty of Jehovah's Witnesses going door to door but never had any mormons knock here before, and all of them were excited to be in Finland and all of them were planning to take a vacation in St Petersburg while they're here - there's like a 72-hr cruiseship one apparently, which is short enough that you don't need a visa - I didn't know that. (In the last five years or so I've come around to thinking it's not worth it to try to go to Russia, but St Petersburg has a reputation for art, literature, culture, and beautiful architecture, as well as liberal culture, and I've been wanting to see it since long before then, and it was the hometown of several of my classmates in the advanced Finnish class I took 5 years ago - hearing about it from their POV only increased the interest).
Also while we were talking Snookums came and tried to escape into the hallway and I picked him up - he went limp like a ginger sack of potatoes, as usual (and as dictated in the Cornish rex breed requirements for show cats), but then when I had him settled on my hip and he noticed three large strangers in front of him he panicked and tried to flail backwards over my elbow. As usual everyone was charmed and asked about him, so I got to tell the Actually his legal name is Russel [sic] Crowe story.
And after that I was hearing sizzling & thinking I needed to get back to cooking, and I managed to cut them off with handshakes at the "But have you ever thought about what God could add to your life?" point. Overall, a pleasant experience for me, although since they are novices, they are no doubt going to practice harder to push past the initial "Yes and let me stop you there because I definitely am not ever gonna change my mind about my spiritual beliefs no hard feelings" point (all the Jehovah's Witnesses I've met have steamrollered over at least three attempts to say that).
I asked about them getting sent to Finland and how that happened and what it was like for them so far and told them I've seen plenty of Jehovah's Witnesses going door to door but never had any mormons knock here before, and all of them were excited to be in Finland and all of them were planning to take a vacation in St Petersburg while they're here - there's like a 72-hr cruiseship one apparently, which is short enough that you don't need a visa - I didn't know that. (In the last five years or so I've come around to thinking it's not worth it to try to go to Russia, but St Petersburg has a reputation for art, literature, culture, and beautiful architecture, as well as liberal culture, and I've been wanting to see it since long before then, and it was the hometown of several of my classmates in the advanced Finnish class I took 5 years ago - hearing about it from their POV only increased the interest).
Also while we were talking Snookums came and tried to escape into the hallway and I picked him up - he went limp like a ginger sack of potatoes, as usual (and as dictated in the Cornish rex breed requirements for show cats), but then when I had him settled on my hip and he noticed three large strangers in front of him he panicked and tried to flail backwards over my elbow. As usual everyone was charmed and asked about him, so I got to tell the Actually his legal name is Russel [sic] Crowe story.
And after that I was hearing sizzling & thinking I needed to get back to cooking, and I managed to cut them off with handshakes at the "But have you ever thought about what God could add to your life?" point. Overall, a pleasant experience for me, although since they are novices, they are no doubt going to practice harder to push past the initial "Yes and let me stop you there because I definitely am not ever gonna change my mind about my spiritual beliefs no hard feelings" point (all the Jehovah's Witnesses I've met have steamrollered over at least three attempts to say that).
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Date: 8 Aug 2018 11:33 am (UTC)Also way to go on the distracting of the Mormons. Isn't sending out young women a new thing for them?
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Date: 8 Aug 2018 07:23 pm (UTC)