Thursday, August 03, 2006

Mormons in Poland?

Today I was finishing up a book (The Firm) on a random street (Aleje Ujazdowskie) bench near our hostel when I see two Mormons walking my way. First thought was what the heeeelll?? Why go to a 80%+ Catholic country in Europe to convert them to Mormonism. Kinda a hard sell.. I mean who's gonna convert to be a Mormon?? Well.. Mormonism is a hard sell to begin with.. but this is just crazy(er).
Second thought... Oh god I'm wearing my Cal Poly T-Shirt (in English). I'm sooo screwed. They're gonna talk to me. I just know it.
And then I was reading looking down at the bench and I could see their feet slow down and come to my direction. Yup. Screwed.
They talk to me in Polish as if I look like a Pole, and then I say "English?". and apparently they're from Texas. I tell them that my roommate was a Mormon and I know what they're about and Im not interested but Good Luck, and they leave and do their conversion thing with other peeps.

Seriously.. Mormons in Poland? That must suck. The LDS church says.. hey why not go to Poland and learn Polish and maybe convert more than 10 people in 2 years... make good use of your time... yeeeeahh.. That must suck.

They just better not be in Lithuania. Learning Polish and living in Poland is one thing.. Lithuanian.. wow.

1 comment:

Alma Allred said...

Yep, we're in Lithuania too - as well as Serbia, Hungary, the Ukraine, Russia and many more places.