Reply #12: I was raised a Catholic and it was part of our identity to

[Cleita]

try to make converts. When I was in school, the nuns sent us to various places to visit the poor, the sick, the needy of all types in the name of performing the works of mercy. I rather liked doing it and I was often sent to the VA to visit the old vets in the cancer ward. BUTTT, they always insisted that I had to take them rosaries to hand out. Now some of the guys wanted the rosaries but most just wanted some company and a game of cards. The majority weren't Catholic.

Since sister always checked my rosary stash to make sure I was giving them out, I found myself burying the unwanted rosaries under bushes before I returned to school. This was a very definite means of trying to make converts IMHO.