Good for you! And great advice! God bless you!
Mormon missionaries the world over agree.
It can be upsetting to people's feeeelings when they have doors shut in their faces ---in rejection of their cult. (and don't try to tell me there is not a cult of Mary)
Calling it persecution, then citing Scripture which refers to persecution suffered for the sake of Christ, that same not referring to later, long-after true apostolic age arising Marian doctrine and dogma --- and most certainly not concerning Joseph Smithisms--- is not the same as suffering for sake of the Gospel, itself.
When waiting for the waabulance any 'ol blankie will do for the poor-little-me pity party cry-babies, specially the blankies that say "Jesus" on them, whereby they can cloak themselves with self-reassurance of their own (self?) righteousness, while standing on the street-corner announcing to passerby just how persecuted for Christ they are (even when they are not being criticized for speaking truly of Him, but just some alleged-to-be-true aspect or another, claimed to be associated with Him (Jesus Christ), instead...)
Mormons (by which I mean the Mormon Church-- not each Mormon individual, so-called Latter Day Saint) here of late have gone whole hog in this grabbing of the blankie (even as they have the waiting for the waabulance act thingy, down to a fine & subtle art, featured as a near-central portion of their unique theology, itself) as towards that [ahem] Church's having had changed their name from Mormon --- to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
See?
They even have "Jesus" in the name of their own church.
Dispute, disagreement, with them, in fact all opposition to their theology = dispute with Jesus Christ = they are being persecuted for Christ's own sake, being caused to suffer for Him, Jesus Christ himself (instead of Smith's religious mind-trip concocted "religion" whereby that man attracted followers to himself) in the minds of those who are zealous for that.