Someone will be very disappointed tomorrow morning!
I am home on maternity leave right now, and this has given me the opportunity to meet people in our neighborhood that I might never have come in contact with otherwise. A few weeks ago, I started chatting with a mother who was out for a walk with her toddler. Today, I stopped by her house to visit for a while. We were talking about getting together to start walking and she mentioned that she couldn't walk tomorrow because a woman she had met while at Legoland with her son was stopping by to talk about bible stuff. ( We live in a gated community where they are not permitted to do the door to door crap) It sounds like they may have had an informal bible study a few times at Legoland- this woman is using the time she has with her grandaughter at Legoland to get a little service time. How convenient! So she told me about being given a few sets of magazines and how this woman brought an extra bible with her so that she didn't have to use a different translation. I'd never heard of anyone trying to switch a potential recruit over to the NWT from the start - I thought that came later.
So after she told me all this, she asked my opinion about witnesses. Apparently her husband had told her that he didn't want witnesses in the house, and she thought that he was just being unreasonable in his opinions and that the religion couldn't be what he said because the woman seemed so nice. She told me that his mother was married to a witness once, though she never became on herself. I told her that I was raised a witness and that she did not want ANYTHING to do with them and her husband was dead on with his wish that she not get involved. I explained that they were a cult and gave her a brief synopsis on all the baggage that came with being a witness that they would not tell her about until they had her roped in. Siffice to say that my 20+ years as a witness behind my statements convinced her that I knew what I was talking about.
For good measure I dropped by tonight with an article on the blood issue printed from the internet, since that was something we talked about, and a copy of Diane Wilson's book. I wish that I had a copy of Crisis of Conscience to give her as well! So this woman will be coming by in the morning is expecting a nice study, and instead she will be getting the sad news that this is one conversion that will not be happening. I will be stopping by later tomorrow morning to get all the dirt on what happens.