I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I thought it was the best place to find someone LDS--if this is the wrong place, I apologize.
my DH and I are both Catholic, born and raised, married in the church, our son was recently baptized, etc. We are not very active in the church at all--but still, it is a part of who we are and it is what we beleive in, etc.
I have a friend who is LDS. We met almost a year ago when she moved into the townhome complex I used to live in. She has a little girl close to my son's age, so we would go running together in the mornings with our strollers, etc and the kids would play together frequently. She asked early on what religion we were and I told her, and she told me she was LDS and a little bit about that. Once when my husband was out of town, she invited me and my DS over for dinner and she had some missionaries there who read from the Book of Mormon after dinner, but that was all. They would often invite our family to do things with them at their church--we went to their Halloween trunk or treat and to a potluck and to an outdoor breakfast picnic. But they never tried to pressure us to learn more about becoming LDS, etc.
however, now the other day she invited us over for dinner and said that she wants to have us come over and have the missionaries over to talk to us to help them share what they believe in. I told her we would love to have dinner with them and while it's always nice to find out more about what our friends believe in, we aren't going to convert from being Catholics or anything. She was like, "Oh, I know...we just wanted to share with you guys a little bit more about our church." I felt rude to say no, so we are going over there for dinner Monday night, but I feel like they are starting to try to convert us, and we have no interest in that, and I really don't want it to cause a problem with our friendship. Any thoughts on what we should do or say to nip this in the bud? I hope this wasn't offensive to anyone, but we believe what we believe and don't want to start going down a road of "just finding out more," because I know how that goes and I don't want it to become really awkward between us.
my DH and I are both Catholic, born and raised, married in the church, our son was recently baptized, etc. We are not very active in the church at all--but still, it is a part of who we are and it is what we beleive in, etc.
I have a friend who is LDS. We met almost a year ago when she moved into the townhome complex I used to live in. She has a little girl close to my son's age, so we would go running together in the mornings with our strollers, etc and the kids would play together frequently. She asked early on what religion we were and I told her, and she told me she was LDS and a little bit about that. Once when my husband was out of town, she invited me and my DS over for dinner and she had some missionaries there who read from the Book of Mormon after dinner, but that was all. They would often invite our family to do things with them at their church--we went to their Halloween trunk or treat and to a potluck and to an outdoor breakfast picnic. But they never tried to pressure us to learn more about becoming LDS, etc.
however, now the other day she invited us over for dinner and said that she wants to have us come over and have the missionaries over to talk to us to help them share what they believe in. I told her we would love to have dinner with them and while it's always nice to find out more about what our friends believe in, we aren't going to convert from being Catholics or anything. She was like, "Oh, I know...we just wanted to share with you guys a little bit more about our church." I felt rude to say no, so we are going over there for dinner Monday night, but I feel like they are starting to try to convert us, and we have no interest in that, and I really don't want it to cause a problem with our friendship. Any thoughts on what we should do or say to nip this in the bud? I hope this wasn't offensive to anyone, but we believe what we believe and don't want to start going down a road of "just finding out more," because I know how that goes and I don't want it to become really awkward between us.
