Ecumenism with the LDS Church

[lax16]

This happened a few months before I joined here, I spent some time at other places (Catholics at one site warned everyone off of this site, you’ll get banned, they a are crazy orthodox/traditional bunch). I wound up here because of reading Whyme on the then called MAD board. More recently (and what fries me even more) my cousins children were invited over to a relatively new neighbors home, ostensibly for “pizza and a movie” but the missionaries were there, and you know what their job is, the parents never told Julie that this was part of the deal, she felt betrayed and decieved. The big problem I have now is LDS reaction to that situation. Overall they think it’s fine, I have rarely if ever seen a truly negative reaction to this. It’s always well missionaries this and missionaries that.

The LDS weren’t the worst I’ve run across though, I spent a summer in high school working a part time job where at lunch time I hid from aggressive proselytizers either in my car (95 degrees outside in a parked car with no A/C) or under the counter where I worked (at least it wasn’t 100 plus degrees there). My dad eventually called the local police when I described being physically restrained by those people.

Our oldest son used to get invited over our friends house (Mormon) for basketball, movie, hang out…and every time the group of teens would try to convert him. Our friend used to tell us they would not give up on our son until they had converted him.

We put an end to that right away. Even though our friends “couldn’t understand why”. When the kids were young, the mom would read him Mormon bedtime stories when we would be at their house for dinner and the she was putting her kids to bed. We started leaving right after dinner.

(This family is no longer Mormon. Every one of them has gone in a completely opposite direction of Mormonism).

 

[Padres1969]

I never would have wound up on religious boards at all had it not been for a series of LDS missionaries who accosted me in my yard, and on my porch, after telling me my church was wrong and me responding I wasn’t interested, they said straight up I must not love my children because I didn’t want to learn how I could be with them forever. So LDS missionaries confronted me and now LDS on line get me.

The LDS must not like my current neighborhood. I never get them or JW missionaries at my door. Only religious visitors I’ve yet had are from a local evangelical church.

Come to think of it, in all the years I’ve lived in San Diego I’ve only run into LDS missionaries when I lived right next door to the San Diego LDS Temple. And even then they only came to my doorstep once (which was in violation of what I thought was an understanding the temple had with the neighborhood when the temple was approved that they wouldn’t go door to do in the neighborhood in exchange for being granted permission to build there). Ran into them a few times out walking/exercising in the neighborhood however as there were always big groups of missionaries going into and out of the temple particularly in the late spring/early summer. They always seemed a pleasant sort and usually didn’t engage more than asking the typical opening lines such as if I had a minute, which I never did as I was jogging.