The current Memorial invitation campaign got me thinking about the few times over the years that someone I invited to a meeting actually came:
1) Once when I was "new", I invited a friend to a Sunday meeting. Neither of us drove, so the brother conducting my study picked us up. My friend was enthused until the opening song " Walking in Integrity" began, the lyrics include "I do not sit with wicked men of lies. I hate the company of those who truth despise...With evil men take not away my life..." etc. He looked at me with an expression of "What is this ??!!". Then he took exception with something said in the Public Talk (I don't recall the subject). He got so loud that he was escorted out of the Hall. Why the brother who brought us didn't just take us home at that point, I don't know, but he wouldn't. So I sat embarrassed through the rest of the meeting, while my friend paced angrily outside smoking. After dropping him off, my study conductor actually said " Dump him!"..(I didn't).
2) My mom came to the Memorial and fell asleep during the talk.
3) A study with a couple was turned over to me. The man had no intention of leaving his church , but came to the Congregation book study a few times. His wife wouldn't after the first.
4) Another study was turned over to me, with an elderly man. He came to the Memorial with his daughter. He did not partake of the emblems but thought she should. She declined.
5) During the Covid shut down my wife got a nice reply to a letter she'd written, from a man in his 90s. We started calling him by phone, then visiting him, just because he enjoyed the company. He came to the 'special' pre-Memorial ' talk 2 years ago, but he has difficulty hearing, we have to practically yell for him to hear, and even with amplification he couldn't hear the talk clearly and the bible and magazine print was too small. Still, he said he enjoyed it.
Just reminiscing...I think it was good that they all were true to themselves and their feelings! I don't think I'll be inviting anymore, but would enjoy reading others experiences if they care to share!