[Sea Parrot]

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.

[reaganaut]

I don’t believe it. I’ve seen the opposite far too often.

[Elsie]

.... I saw there was one thing he would not tolerate, and that was trash talk about Mormons.

Didja ever find out what he thought about mormonISM?

[Elsie]

...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...

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[svcw]

Sorry, SP.
I have not seen that behavior (not asking for anything). Even their own members are required to pay back the “charity”.
I am suspect about your friend’s account of the situation.