The mormons won't leave us alone...UPDATE.
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We relocated to Utah almost three weeks ago for my husband's career. Since then we have had people trying to convince us to go to their church. People were really nice in the beginning but they are getting pushy. When we got here there were a couple of neighbors who helped us move our stuff in which was really great of them and they invited us to church. We said no but thanked them for their help. Then later the same day this older lady came over and introduced herself and randomly told us when church is. I don't know why they think we are mormon. We have also had young men with name tags come to our house twice and invite us to church. I love it when people are friendly but it doesn't seem like they want to get to know us. It seems like they are dead set on getting us to go into their church and that is the only reason they come over. Is this normal? Do they get money for recruiting people? It almost sounded like a sales pitch when the men in name tags were talking to us. Also, how do I get them to back off? We told them several times that we are happy being Christian and it had no affect on them. They said they are Christian too and we should go to their church because it contains the fullest gospel. Please help...
UPDATE: A lot of ladies suggested hanging a 'no soliciting' sign on our door. I grabbed one when I was at the store on Monday but didn't even get to put it up before I was approached again. This times it was one of the men who helped us move our furniture on the day we got here. He invited our family over that night for what he called 'family home evening'. I had no idea what that was and he said "Oh, we just have a special family night every Monday. We eat dinner and play games." Well I thought that sounded great so I accepted. It was the most awkward night of my life. Ever. We ate dinner but all they talked about what their church. I have no idea what half of what they said even meant. After dinner we sat in their living room and the husband pulls out his scriptures and starts basically giving us a lesson about how this guy wrote their Mormon book. Very uncomfortable experience. I feel like we were kind of tricked.
Back to the sign...I hung it yesterday afternoon. Not more than an hour later the old woman was back on my doorstep asking if my daughter would like to attend a church activity. I was getting pissed. I told the woman in no uncertain terms that we are not interested in her church. She assured me that this would just be a way to get my daughter involved and that all they were doing was putting Valentine's on people's lawns (wtf?) and there wouldn't be any scripture study. I told her the answer was still no. Do these people have any kind of life outside of church? I seriously have never met people like this. I am going to call around today and try and find a non-denominational church we can attend. I am still busy with unpacking but I have got to get some other kind of interaction going on here for the sake of my sanity. The mormon people that I have met so far all seem freakishly obsessed with my family's salvation. Hopefully we can be friends with our neighbors someday but not until they learn the meaning of the word BOUNDARIES.
:( I feel for you. Since we moved to our new city I don't answer the door unless I know exactly who it is. I hide in my room until they go away lmao.
Quoting Anonymous:
I am honestly at a loss of what I should do. I have never encountered people like this before.
Quoting caito:I'm sorry, Utah sounds like hell on earth to me. I'd be super uncomfortable being surrounded by that many pushy religious people.
Could you threaten them with legal action if they trespass? I dunno.
Where in Utah are you? I live in Utah too and I am NOT Mormon. I'm guessing possibly Utah County or up north? I live in Utah as well, and it really just depends on the neighborhood you live in. I have lived in neighborhoods where they are pushy like that. Now we live in one that is not, but yes they can get pushy. I have also been invited to activities that I thought were just neighbor things then it turned out to be a church sponsered thing and it pissed me the hell off too. Unfortunately it is just the way it is in a lot of areas. Mormon's lives and church intertwine so much that yes a lot of times their lives do revolve around the church. There are some normal people and mormons out there though. Message me if you need info or just someone to vent to because I understand.
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Quoting Anonymous:
I already put a sign up! Hasn't phased them!
Quoting marie2409:Put up a sign like this LOL 😊
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