As you all know by now, my parents effectively shunned me for a week with the exception of one hurtful email seen at the following. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/106514/2.ashx
Yesterday they call and trying to be the good daughter that I feel I am, I answered. THEY INVITED ME TO DINNER. I however gave my hubby the cold I had last week and he wasn't up to going anywhere. This led to the question, did they invite me to dinner because they are trying to preach to me a few times before I get kicked out or if they are really not going to keep the shunning up? It almost makes me wonder if they told the elders of our association with a disfellowshipped person and were told not to worry about it. The witnesses are so sneaky you just never know what they are up to.
Later in the day, the sister they assigned to bring me back stopped by with the Draw Close to God book and the latest magazines. She reminded me the end was near and our need for action. She asked, as she always does, if there is ANYTHING they can do to help me come back. I just say no. She is so sweet that I hate to disappoint her, but she really just doesn't get it. She can't understand how someone who KNOWS the "Truth" can leave.
Not 10 minutes later her husband and an old family friend/elder stopped by. I told him the others had just come by but they decided to talk to me. Said they were thinking about me because my name was on their baptized but inactive list. Oddly enough, I was almost completely honest with them. I told them I had always went to meetings to please my parents, but now that I was an adult I had to make my own decisions and until I did that, I was not returning. The husband of my assigned witness went on with reading scriptures to me. Then the friend/elder asked, do you still believe this is the truth? Astounded at his perceptiveness, I paused and told him, I wasn't sure yet. He seemed to take this in stride. I knew I couldn't lie and say yes, as this would screw up my baptism nullification letter I plan on sending. (A side note on that, my husband doesn't think I should send it until we are sure we are in trouble with the elders.) They went on to tell me they were scared for me because the end was so soon. (I almost laughed). They finally left. The good thing from this is they kept mentioning my baptism but never mentioned my husbands. I wonder if they forgot he is baptised or maybe they never transferred his card from our old hall because he never attended the new one. Either way, it may keep him from getting disfellowshipped.