Mormon Gem - How We Overcome Antimormon Hate

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Mormon Christians overcome hate by listening to the Holy Spirit and showing love to others.

"Amidst the terrible hostilities in Missouri that would put the Prophet in Liberty Jail and see thousands of Latter-day Saints driven from their homes, Sister Drusilla Hendricks and her invalid husband, James, who had been shot by enemies of the Church in the Battle of Crooked River, arrived with their children at a hastily shaped dugout in Quincy, Illinois, to live out the spring of that harrowing year."Within two weeks the Hendrickses were on the verge of starvation, having only one spoonful of sugar and a saucerful of cornmeal remaining in their possession. In the great tradition of LDS women, Drusilla made mush out of it for James and the children, thus stretching its contents as far as she could make it go. When that small offering was consumed by her famished family, she washed everything, cleaned their little dugout as thoroughly as she could, and quietly waited to die."Not long thereafter the sound of a wagon brought Drusilla to her feet. It was their neighbor Reuben Allred. He said he had a feeling they were out of food, so on his way into town he'd had a sack of grain ground into meal for them."Shortly thereafter Alexander Williams arrived with two bushels of meal on his shoulder. He told Drusilla that he'd been extremely busy but the Spirit had whispered to him that 'Brother Hendricks' family is suffering, so I dropped everything and came [running].'"May God, who has blessed all of us so mercifully and many of us so abundantly, bless us with one thing more. May he bless us to hear the often silent cries of the sorrowing and the afflicted, the downtrodden, the disadvantaged, the poor."

Jeffrey R. Holland, "A Handful of Meal and a Little Oil," Ensign, May 1996, 31

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[RCSVirginia]

One way for the Mormon church to overcome the sentiment of anti-Mormonism around the world would be for it to cease its campaign of lies and falsehoods against gay Americans that it is constantly waging and for it to stop supporting hate measures such as Proposition 8 in California.

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@RCSVirginia I want you to know that God loves you.

[omiolo]

"This building is intended and designed to magnify our powers to help others," President Eyring said. "Deseret Industries was a part of the general welfare plan of the Church to help lift people to employment so that they might then lift themselves to the capacity to care for themselves and their families.". .

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@omiolo Deseret Industries does a lot of good for a lot of people.

[omiolo]

Answering a knock at the door, Harrington found himself face-to-face with two neatly dressed young men, proselytizing missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "My first thought was, 'Oh no, how can I get rid of them?' " Harrington said. "Then I thought, 'I could write about these two.

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@omiolo The missionaries.

[omiolo]

He was jailed after ordering the destruction of an opponent's newspaper and ordered to stand trial. But before that could happen, a mob burst into the jail and killed him.

[omiolo]

Mitt Romney isn't the first Mormon to make a run for the presidency. The front-running Massachusetts Republican was preceded by his own father, George, who was briefly the GOP frontrunner in 1968 before losing the nomination to Richard Nixon in 1968.

And the very first Mormon presidential candidate was the very first Mormon, Joseph Smith, the founder of the religion who as mayor of Nauvoo, Ill., announced his candidacy as an independent in 1844. Smith's candidacy came to a disastrous end.

[omiolo]

@RCSVirginia "movie about Mormon missionaries "Latter Days" "

I can see you are a purveyor of FILTH. You must be so proud of yourself. Larry Flynn would like your phone number.

[omiolo]

@RCSVirginia "cease its campaign of lies and falsehoods against gay Americans"

Like when Mormons burned Gay churches, forced gays out of jobs, harassed them, defaced their edifices and petitioned congress for them to be financially penalized?

[RCSVirginia]

If you not seen the wonderful movie about Mormon missionaries "Latter Days" yet, it is definitely one that you should check out. Whilst you are it, you may want to give "8: The Mormon Propositions" a look, too.

[seikjo]

@KakkoiGuy1

So if you do not know 9/3x36-10+pi-3879x2/37. Then you go to the BIBLE for that? Really. You don't go to the bible for EVERYTHING. The bible does not have the answer for EVERYTHING. Plus. I'm Taoist. So don't push your God on me. I'd rather be at PEACE with myself then believe I am a SINNER just because I was born.