Posted by:
Rocksy
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Date: February 20, 2012 02:15AM
Dear RfM community members,
I do not consider myself Mormon--and I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be by their LDS standards, as I was never baptized into the church. However, for the last three months, I have been receiving regular love-bombings at the apartment my fiance (an agnostic with zero ties to the church) and I live in, including three different home/visiting teachers with baked goods, regular mailings, invitations to attend "my ward", personal requests to attend the singles ward, and various other activities I have zero interest in as an agnostic/skeptical scientist/Pastafarian. At first, it was quite unnerving to have strange people who knew my name visit my home unannounced. I have stated to them that I am not Mormon, and have no interest in the church. In these short few months, it has become increasingly irritating to the point where I now hide and ignore the doorbell and knocks until they leave. It sounds ridiculous, but I feel like I am being stalked. Whenever the doorbell rings I have anxiety attacks, even when I later find out it was just the UPS delivery.
As for some background, I did attend the LDS church when I was a young child with my family. My mom is a Mormon who converted with her family as a teenager, and my dad is an atheist. My family stopped attending the church before my sibling and I reached baptizing age. Though I was never baptized, hearing about it in church always gave me an inexplicable feeling of dread. I am an adult in my mid-20s, and my parents have been separated for several years now. When my parents separated, my mom went back to the church, and is now very much into it, but has not pressured me to go back in any way. I live several states away from my mother, and speculate that the Mormons likely found my address through her, either knowingly or unknowingly. I have not spoken to her about these encounters as I do not wish to cause her distress, particularly since I am getting married in a secular ceremony to a pretty secular guy in several months.
What is the best course of action to get the Mormon batallion to stop barraging me? Is there a way to check and make sure that I am not on their membership rolls without divulging any additional personal information to them? Advice would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Rocksy