Comments about ‘In response to disaster, many LDS missionaries lending a hand’

Elders!!!! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!

Really happy to see the Church in action.Well done Missionaries keep up the good work.Our thoughts and prayers are with you all in the Regions that the fires are burning.
Kia Kaha from New Zealand

YEAH for our missionaries and for the church! It is great to see us in action and doing something to help these poor suffering people. God Bless Them All!

When hurricane Rita too place, over 100 missionaries were evacuated from Houston. Arriving in Seguin Texas, they were very willing to help as they could. Our missionaries have a loving heart that yearns to serve others, whether or not they themselves are evacuees. I remember well their help to play with children of families who were at a shelter here -which was the help needed. I also remember their resourcefulness to live as evacuees for about a week in our meeting house.

As a missionary mom I'm so proud of these young men and women who not only dedicate 18 mos- 2 yrs of their lives to teaching people the gospel, but they take King Benjamin's declaration to heart: "When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

The Missionaries help their neighbors when ever there is this type of trouble. There are just too few of them in this disaster in California, with so many needy people.

And people question the Church, how can they? When there are so many good things about the Church. And these missionaries who risk their lives daily and are taking the bigger risk at this time to help those in need. They never think of themselves first, they think of others, like Christ did.

I don't care what anyone says...The Mormons are awesome when it comes to being prepared and helping others when disasters hit.

A few days ago someone wrote a letter to either the Tribune or the Deseret Morining News (I don't remember) and stated that all chapels owned by the LDS Church should pay property taxes. Now they are being used in California for emergency shelters and evacuation centers regardless of religious affiliation. This is one of the highest forms of charitable giving and qualifies these properties to be tax exempt.

By their fruits ye shall know them . . .

I served in the Carlsbad mission, including many of the hardest hit areas so this article hits really close to home. My heart goes out to them and all of those helping others cope with this terrible tragedy.

Missionaries have always served in difficult cirscumstances. My friend was serving in Poland. One morning he saw all these armaments rolling past his window. He knew it was the invasion.

I was serving in West Germany when the Berlin Wall went up. All the news papers were screaming " America will go to War." We stayed, worked and prayed.

Thanks to the parents and friends of these missionaries who helped prepare them to be so Christ-like in their unflinching service to their fellow man. A mission is a seminal moment for a young man or young woman as they put self aside and focus on someone else. Would to heaven every young man and more young women in the LDS Church were worthy and willing to provide such service and Godly devotion. And that other churches would catch the vision of the good that this can do. The world would be a much better place populated by people who sacrificed for others. (And yes, many other Christian religions do have missionaries as well and I'm grateful for their dedication and service too.)

Thank you Elders and Sisters. You're wonderful.

'thy days shall be aspent in the service of thy God.'
How many Sundays do we sit in a chapel and listen to the lessons given about how we as members are to be more like Christ. Christ's service was the purest-nothing was expected in return. The missionaries are speading the word of Christ by being in the service of all men. All in this horrible situation are in our prayers, but remember that in all things 'we' accept His will.

We used to ride our bicycles through the typhoons in Taiwan helping people on their motorbikes that got stranded in deep water. It's difficult pedaling a bike through 3 feet of water, but not as hard as pushing a motorbike through the same.

See we are really not Christians! We are just trying to get more people into the church by having them stay there as their houses burn to the ground! Next thing you know those crazy missionaries will be using the baptismal font telling people that it is a giant bath tub and will start baptizing them.

I'm sure the LDS effort is mighty but there are thousands of other people of other churches and service organizations doing the same and much more. Let's pat them all on the back not just the LDS

Very Funny to "ME Too" we are real Christians as we could follow what chirst had taught us to do to service other poeple in first hand!!!!

I don't see other Christians posting how wonderful they are in newspapers.

TO LCM: WE ALL KNOW OTHER CHURCHES DO GOOD BUT THE ARTICLE WRITTEN ABOVE IS ABOUT THE LDS MISSIONARIES NOT OTHER CHURCHES.