It appears you did not address ealge's comment, but made up your own version of it to answer.
It you looked back to the previous reference in post 120 you could have read that the subject was Joseph Smith, not the Mormons. There were no Mormons to influence Joseph Smith because they did not exist yet.
Protestants/Evangelicals of the Second Great Awakening influenced Joseph Smith, and after that influence he went even further afield in his quest to reform, reconstruct, or recreate what he thought was genuine Christianity and he started Mormonism after trying to find the true church among some Protestant/Evangelical denominations.