A 51 year old and rich Muslim woman (very believing) had been working as a teacher and been married for 20 years to a scientist and had three grown up children. One day she is visited by two Swedish-talking sisters. She doesn't usually open the door. But this day she does and lets them in. Se tells them that she is a believing Muslim and that she doesn't want to change religion. One of the sisters who is new in the Truth... (she says things you may not say about other religions and their prophets!).. she says that she should read the Bible and get baptized instead. (The sister is new in the Truth, normally we don't say like that.) The woman gets angry and doesn't want to talk to them anymore. But she has difficulties with the language and instead she invites them to tea, at least she wants to be polite. Because she is kind and invites them to tea, the sister goes back and does a return visit (this time without the new sister) It was the Traveling Overseer's wife who was with her. The sisters don't know that the woman gets very irritated when she sees them. But because of the language and the traditional politeness and hospitality she asks them to come in..
The Circuit Overseer's wife realizes that the languish is the problem and therefore she phones me (a Turkish pioneer sister) She wants me to go to her and see what she wants to talk about. I go there the same week and now she gets shocked. "Now even the Turks are coming, how shall I get rid of them?" she thinks in her heart. She has never liked her fellow countrymen and never associated with them. Anyway - we calm her down and start to give her answers to all her questions and to encourage her to read her Koran and in the same time study the Bible and then compare them. Because of the fact that she has been granted an early retirement pension and consequently has a lot of time she says OK.
She starts quite soon to come to the meetings, studies diligently, turns from the Koran and quickly understands by herself what is right. After five months she goes back to her country and is away for three and a half months. She visits her hometown Tarsus. In Tarsus there are neither friends nor congregation and she doesn't contact Sweden during all this time. Not until she is back at the book study she tells us how she has been witnessing for all her relatives, friends and others all the time. She has even gone to the next town, Mersin, and gotten in contact with the friends and the congregation. There she has gotten a lot of literature to distribute among those she has been witnessing to and she has tried to teach them to call upon Jehova's name and she has been teaching them to pray the Lord's prayer. Her favorite scripture is Rom 10:13 and she has taught all to learn it by heart. When she comes back to Sweden she says: "I have to get baptized, to become a sister and then go back to do return visits to all of them. I have to preach more, then Paul will be pleased. You know, it's his town!!"
Now she is a unbaptized associate and last week her son who works at a theater is studying (commentary 5/2-96: he has taken a break) Her daughter who is the manager of a traveling agency is studying (comm. 5/2-96, she is still studying) The mother is looking forward to becoming a pioneer in Tarsus. (comm. 5/2-96: another daughter in Finspång is also interested and wants to study as soon as a Turkish sister can arrange that.)