Get an education, look up Mormon Welfare. A world wide program to help the poor.
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Apparently you are the one that needs the education. Mormon welfare is ONLY for ‘worthy’ LDS members who when they need food or help with bills, must pass a ‘worthiness’ (spiritual) interview and then submit to a member of the local church leadership to determine their needs (like having a member of the women’s organization go through their pantry - I am not kidding). They also must be full tithe payers.
Then they, if at all possible, must WORK to pay for it in the church’s ‘Bishops storehouse’.
It isn’t charity at all and it isn’t for non-LDS.
What few times they DO help outsiders - like Haiti- they send a couple of hundred tents and sleeping bags so people can sleep in the parking lot (not in the church) and then call press conferences to say how much they are helping. We saw that firsthand during the Haiti crisis here on FR. One of the E’s (elsie or ejonesie22) posted pics of google earth that showed the stark contrast between what the LDS church was doing and the Catholic church a couple of blocks away.
The LDS do NOT open their books and tithing goes to things like building malls in SLC and who know what else. The church is never held accountable. Fast offerings are in addition to tithing and again go only to ‘worthy’ LDS.
Missionary funds (again in addition to tithing) are supposed to help pay for missions but I know when I asked for help for my LDS mission I was told to get LDS friends to pay for it and ‘sponsor’ me. The church would not help.
LDS tithing goes only to further the LDS church. Period.
As for Mormons only helping their own, I beg to differ.
I knew my friend very well when he related this story to me in 1966.
Fresh from back east, engine trouble had used up most of their savings. he was out of work, could not find a job, with a wife and two children was homeless. They had been living in the car for several days beside a canal outside Phoenix, AZ. He had noticed a local farmer driving by and looking several times. Later the farmer stopped and they discussed the predicament my friend found himself in.
The farmer later came back with several men and talked to him. They explained they were Mormons, would ask nothing in return, but wanted to help him and his family. They got them an apt with a months rent, paid the utilities and bought food, he said not once did they talk about the Mormon faith and etc. My friend found a job within a week, one of the first things he did was to begin repaying the Mormons for the good deed they had done.
Now so far as I knew, he was non-religious, if not a downright atheist. Having witnessed it first hand one day, I saw there was one thing he would not tolerate, and that was trash talk about Mormons. Being the big strapping fella he was, he did get physically rough with two guys who went too far that time.