I tried a different tactic this time. I told them I had looked in JWs before but I just couldn’t get past how families would treat their children in the disfellowshipping scenario. It was unfathomable to me how anyone could do that to their child. They danced a bit but then relented and went with keeping the congregation clean.
I said your faith would have to be pretty weak to allow someone else to sway you from it, just by associating with them.
and yes to the counting time- it was a whole minivan load of them, and where I live you have to drive from one house to the next.