Two Mormon young men were on their two year missionary trip. Effie and Leonard, who were Southern Baptists their whole lives, lived in a small Oklahoma town. These four people met when the Mormon boys knocked on Effie and Leonard’s door. Effie invited them in for supper. What developed was a decade of friendship with each new batch of Mormon missionaries introduced to Effie and Leonard. The Mormon boys helped around the house and garden and Effie and Leonard provided supper and a place the boys could almost call home. [1]
“I don’t know if they’re better Mormons or she’s a better Baptist for knowin’ each other. And I don’t know if the leaders of the Southern Baptist convention and the elders of the Latter-day Saints would approve. But I do know that the human race is a little better species because these two took the time to appreciate one another as people.” [1]
Is there no benefit in other religions? Are the people of other religions evil?
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[1] Baxter Black, DVM. “Mormon Boys, Range Magazine, Summer 2020, p. 40.
