Well, that's a first!

[layla]

Mormon missionaries at the door! XD I told them they were very brave to drive down a half-mile-long driveway and knock on the door of a house that positively screams "crazy Alaska woods people", complete with barking dogs. And they were polite; we chatted a bit, I explained that I'm an atheist and not interested, and they were nice about it, so -- bonus points for that. I'm still slightly amazed that they actually braved our middle-of-nowhereness; in the four years we've lived here, it's the first time anyone has showed up at the door who wasn't a delivery/service person or someone who knew us already and had been given detailed directions to get here.

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[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Maybe natural selection in Alaska favors polite missionaries, since you never know when someone is going to answer the door with a shotgun. *g* At any rate, most of the Mormons I've met have been very nice and not at all pushy. (And we have a ton of Mormons, too. Alaska apparently counts as "overseas" for mission purposes, which means a lot of young people opt to come up here for their Church service -- at least that's what a Mormon co-worker of mine once told me.)