Posted on 09/06/2007 5:47:41 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy
Fruits of their labor - Thousands of Mormons work in the heat to prepare raisins that will go to help others. MADERA (California) -- The raisin harvest begins at daybreak with folks such as doctors, lawyers, teenagers and men using wheelchairs lining up their cars along Road 35 in Madera. They grab their gloves, their metal or plastic bins, their curved knives. They grab sheets of brown paper. They trudge through sandy soil, lay down the paper trays and cut off grape bunches. For the past two weeks, this is how 10,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have volunteered their labor. It's God's work, and it's not easy.
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Where were you guys?
Every Mormon I have known has been a nice person.
“Every Mormon I have known has been a nice person.”
Thank you. It means a lot.
The Grapes of Mitt.
Anyone who wants to bash Mormonism based on a charitable campaign like this can answer to me first.
I hate faith-bashing. It’s poison.
As a non-Mormon who married into a raisin making family, and produced 5 harvests, this is really a non issue. Why the hell are you posting this? Business as usual.
It was in the hundreds.
Glad to know someone is keeping Tereza Heinz Kerry supplied with raisins.
I didn’t know Kerry’s wife was a victim of earthquake or flood or famine. Do you know something I don’t know?
“Why the hell are you posting this?”
I’m proud of my faith. Ye shall know them by their fruit (grapes).
Migrant Mormon workers? Hope they’re documented! ;-)
Little LDS humor, Mormons document everything, you know, because that’s part of their...never mind. ;-)
This is such a cool story. I’m not a Mormon, but there is no doubt that Mormons are some of the most loving, giving and generous folks in the world.
I grew up in a Christian home and my folks lived like this and modeled this kind of behavior for us.
One thing is for sure — there is no high like giving of yourself. None.
All but one were nice. This woman had serious personality problems, but the rest of her family was great.
The only thing we picked on as kids (sorry) was the “no caffeine” thing, which someone recently told me isn’t a strict rule after all.
What’s this got to do with Mitt?
Laying back on a zebra skin rug, eating on a rasin, grape, apricot, pomegranite, sipping RC Cola listenin' to a transistor and watchin' the Grand Ole Opry.
It was a joke, in reference to Tereza Heinz Kerry’s addiction to gin soaked raisins. Have a sense of humor.
I was just kidding about you guys working in the fields.
I just remembered that you guys have FReeped at the corner of Blackstone & Shaw when it was in the hundreds time and time again doing the Lord’s work. My hat’s off to you. Scott and I are honored to be numbered among you.
For victory & freedom!!!
“As a non-Mormon who married into a raisin making family, and produced 5 harvests, this is really a non issue. Why the hell are you posting this? Business as usual.”
Wow - you are a cold sob. These folks who volunteered ... VOLUNTEERED ... are making no money from this. They are doing this to help other people and for no profit to themselves.
I don’t even know why I waste my time with people who think like you.
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