Texas Mormons - Church's Response to Hurricane Katrina

Eric Peterson of Beaumont, Texas, speaks about the Church's (Mormon) response to Hurricane Katrina.

This video is one in a series of videos The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released to better inform the public about differences between the worldwide church based in Salt Lake City and the polygamous group in Texas that calls itself the FLDS.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - whose members are often called 'Mormons" - placed a series of video interviews on its web site to illustrate the differences between its own members in Texas and members of the isolated polygamous group.

The Texas Mormons featured on the video interviews include a director of community theater, an orthopedic surgeon, a Justice of the Peace, a former Houston Oilers quarterback, a news anchor and a young woman with aspirations for medical school.

More information: http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/church-seeks-to...

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[6Tamara8]

Greate Service from the mormons.

[tezkingkong]

He puts it so simply & honestly,God bless,Brother.

[monsternate2000]

And by their works you shall know them. You volunteers are my heros. Your efforts speak volumes about who we are as members of the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-Day Saints.

[pilottim79]

@platinumcar Thank you for your gratitude. We are happy to serve everyone we can. Hopefully you can pass it along and we Mormons are happy to have a friend for life now. :)

[mosulaman]

@KolobBabe wow how ungrateful are you its all service no orders and people did get sent there, i live in cali and alot of the church left to go help

[lzbriscoe]

@KolobBabe

The mormon church administers aid through volunteers. Even if no volunteers showed up to the floods, how can you complain? They aren't obligated to.

And by the way, I was a mormon volunteer helping sandbag during those floods. If you're negatively commenting, and you can't comment first-hand, don't comment at all.

[dareapa1]

lol im wearing a mormon helping hands shirt right now!

[thewaainator]

Haha stupid, the Church of LDS did send people to Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa.

[platinumcar]

I'm from Galveston and witnessed your goodness first hands. Thank you so very much for your help. Our house got 5 ft of water and yellow shirted youth from Dallas and Beaumont assisted us. God Bless!

[PropertyFire]

the LDS were there. We sent folks from Indiana to help too.

[0lfo]

besides, nobody gets ordered, its all volunteer work. you know, service? what Jesus did.

[0lfo]

why didn't you?