The LDS Church also teaches its members to avoid debt, and to keep a full year’s worth of food stored. Unfortunately, it also encourages members to marry very young and start having babies right away and have lots of them, and jsut “trust Heavenly Father” to provide a way to pay for it all. The result is a lot of families living on the edge financially, both young couples who hadn’t amassed enough savings and earning ability to really support a family, and their parents who started out the same way, and as a result have meager savings and a large brood of adult offspring over which any financial assistance they can provide must be split.
When you have GIVEN a couple of years of your life to proclaim the MESSAGE of the Church, while scrimping to stay in the mission field, you’d think these folks would have LEARNED how to avoid getting in over their heads, financally.