A SATISFIED JW

19 September 2011 Monday

This afternoon we went to see Ann Kelly. Orson had found her tracting. She’s over 80, very sharp mentally and attends the J-dub meetings but doesn’t believe in everything they teach. She had said we could come back, but she greeted us at the door with, “You can come in as long as you don’t tell me that the Jehovah’s Witnesses aren’t true and you don’t try to get me to change churches.” Orson agreed to that and then used a very soft approach to get her talking about what was wrong with the J-dubs. She got out her JW bible and her King James bible and we compared some scriptures. She agreed with everything we said concerning them and how they were wrong. She was surprised that the apostate Mormons, the Millerites, had an influence on the founder of the JWs. She agreed that they were wrong that there couldn’t be more scripture if God wanted to bring it. Just as we were ready to introduce the Book of Mormon, she said, “Well, that’s enough. I’m not going to change churches. Would you like a drink of water?” And that was it. She was good to talk to. We felt sorry for her. She grew up in an orphanage until she was 5. Someone took her home when she was 2 ½, but they must have not liked her because they returned her to the orphanage. She was finally adopted by a single teacher. She says she was nice but not a warm person. You could tell that she missed the hugging, etc., that she saw some children get. She has 5 kids but only 2 of them speak to her. Her husband left her to raise them alone. They probably got the same kind of mothering that she had. What a blessing it is to be born of “goodly parents!”
After dinner tonight we drove south of town into the bush where we saw the kangaroos before. We were hoping for another sighting, but they must have not been awake yet. Sigh….