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justarelative
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Date: April 30, 2015 11:31PM
Prior thread here:
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1571071Don't get excited. Not much happened. The sisters scheduled me for 4:00 today and also had a 5:00 dinner appointment. Knowing that we didn't have that much time I decided not to try to get into any of the strategies that you guys have helped me develop. Probably for the best.
Instead we worked mainly on rapport development. The conversation was just one rabbit trail after another, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, lots of fun, and the sisters once again expressed very high regard for me. So perhaps I'm gaining credibility, and earning more of a right to say some of the things I haven't been able to get to yet.
At one point in the conversation I mentioned to them that the sign outside the chapel says Visitors Welcome. But nowhere is there any information about when to show up or what you would be showing up for. Nothing like Bible Study Wed 7:30pm like on normal churches. (Kind of like the way American coins have no numbers on them to tell you their value. We don't notice such things until our international guest points it out. I actually used this example with them.)
They were astonished at themselves for never noticing the lack of posted meeting times. At first they said they would submit the idea of posting times to someone in authority. Then they switched to trying to come up with a reason for the way things are. Surely there must be a good reason. What could it be? It was hilarious to watch.
I'm invited to church on Sunday. Seriously thinking about going. At a meet-up this evening someone suggested that at F&T I should pull out a note pad and write down what the various people at the mic give a testimony of. The church, the BoM, family, etc., with tick marks beside each one to count the number of times mentioned. She was suggesting that I would find that Jesus comes in last place.
As always, I'll keep you posted.
JAR
P.S. If ever I get crazy enough to graffiti the sign outside a Mormon chapel it will likely then read "The Church of everything but JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints. Visitors Welcome if you can guess when to show up."