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We've discussed the quality of new members recently and the consenses has been the church attracts people with problems and low education. Well recently I just heard of a big quality catch. My SisIL's sisters family just joined Sat. The whole famdamily. Dad, Mom, 3 children. I won't get too specific due to the status of this family. But he is a big big whig over a major base in a branch of the military. He is the son of a minister, she is a buddist. The man who has been working on them for several years is also a well known celeb of a kind in the church.''

The husband is very excited about joining the church. The wife being raised a buddist is new to Christianity. She called sisIL last week to let her know she was being baptised and was a little antsy about it. SIL told her that she would refer her to hubby and I when she had questions she didn't feel satisfied with. bwaahaahaaahaha. I told her "You are aware that I am a heretic right?" She said yes.


Any who, she gave me an audio book on buddism and said "if the mormons can steal a buddist, we're going to steal a mormon."

We were taking bets on how soon this man will be a Bishop. BIL said 10 years and SIL and I give him 3 years due to his high status in the military.

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Thats great. Some poor TBM worked his ass off to convert this guy, and then they are gonna turn them over to you and hubby for de-conversion. Classic. It kinda reminds me of how pumped everybody was when Randy Bachman of BTO, joined up. Now look what happened. I don't think anybody from the church is bragging up BTO anymore, lol.

Oh BTW, nice avatar Nicolette, weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

In my mission the sisters baptised a young family i.e. mum, dad and a few children. I was in the mission office at the time and the MP said that this was the first full family to be baptised in 3 years!

It does not happen often.

I wonder how long it will be before they are out of the church.

It really makes me sad now when people come into the church. It is one thing for all of us who were raised in the church to have to deal with the heartache and dissonance caused when we no longer believe, but we inherited this mess. There is no reason to introduce others to this crap. I just want to shout, "If you are free from ties to Mormonism, do yourself a favor and stay free from it. There are other ways to meet the needs you anticipate Mormonism will fill". But, alas, some people have to learn for themselves the hard way.

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Here, here. I had to learn that lesson the hard way myself and it caused my oldest child no small amount of pain as well. We were a family conversion. Only my husband is still semi-active and I would place him in the "problems" category.

I'm not being catty - he simply has some worldview issues where he feels he needs the all-encompasing legalism of something like Mormonism. I think therapy would be better but going to SM is cheaper in the short term.

Sigh.

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Now somebody PLEEASE de-convert Gladys Knight so the church will stop yappin about it.

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Great TBM Quotes
"I find it strange that a book by a human being would be influential in your decision making about the LDS church." -why_me, FAIR message board, posted 5/9/2006

well what a crappy mission. in our mission we tried to baptize a whole family that was living in the red cross center a few times a year. they never left church over the book of abraham story. i think mostly they quit coming to church because they had not one clue what we were talking about and they were not treated well at church. mountain meadows never really came up either. nor peepstones.

They might land them, but the church fishes in a "catch and release" only stream.

I'd be shocked if these people are still active at Xmas.

I like that analogy Jack. I was thinking the same thing while reading this thread.

This is now the typical Mormon family:

that is the typical mormon investigator family.

the 8 and 9 year old are the typical local baptisms.

none of them will be saluting/sustaining the seers after 22 days in the church.

[quote="Dave Sigmann"]I wonder how long it will be before they are out of the church.

SIL thinks the husband will shine and grow in the church. We are not so sure about her sis. She wasn't one to enjoy hanging with the officers wives and cliquish people.

And their 10 year old is very outspoken and opinionated. He will call it as he sees it. It is going to be interesting. They were attracted to the family values they saw in the church.

Desert vulture said:

Oh BTW, nice avatar Nicolette, weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Thank you DV. Its my new hippy look...

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