Frankly, the coolest receptions I have ever received have been at different mormon wards, but I never have complained about it...people always examine strangers. I don't see that it's anything to hang on to though.
....and the bet was with my Christian FRiends who have attended different churches...I didn't bet you anything.
Grey, the preacher, IIRC, was relatively new to the area and the previous preacher was a gung ho, hellfire and damnation type. He had meetings several times a month about what was wrong with other religions and he encouraged his congregation to not associate with any paganistic heathen who wasn’t a true Christian.
The new preacher was trying to change that attitude, but it hadn’t been that long.
In fact, my neighbors, across the street, when to first preacher’s congregation and I had just moved to the neighborhood. We became good friends in a short time. I have one son and another on the way and my son would go over and beg and plead for cookies.
About a month after I moved to the neighborhood, they came home from church and they were really upset. It turned out that the preacher had told the congregation that a Mormon family had moved into the area and that nobody in the congregation was to associate with us. Vera and Bill found a congregation before the next Sunday.
I really miss them. I was their neighbor for 15 years before she died and he went to a nursing home.