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MormonTimes.com: Church members, missionaries help flood victims

Published: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:18 a.m. MDT
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Just as the floods in Indiana began to subside, another flood struck: the flood of yellow-shirted members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there to dirty their hands in the service of their neighbors.

More than 400 Mormons donned yellow "Helping Hands" t-shirts Saturday and Sunday to help the people of Terre Haute, Ind. One woman looked around her home and told her husband they would need an army to clean up damage left by flood waters. Before long they looked down the road and saw the bright-yellow army coming down the road. To read the entire story on MormonTimes.com, click here.

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John Lambert, I like what you said, I believe that quietly many of us...

MoJules | June 17, 2008 at 9:58 p.m.

People did know they did good works, those they helped in the flood...

RE John Lambert | June 17, 2008 at 4:12 p.m.

To the guy who is so judgemental but does not share his name,...

John Lambert | June 17, 2008 at 3:18 p.m.

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