I've known quite a few mormons. I met most when I lived in the states for 2 years and my dad's colleague was a mormon. Him and his wife and his friends were some of the nicest and helpful people I have ever met.
The wife helped my mum make friends when she didn't know anyone, and when I was having a hellish time at school in Houston (so much for international school with cultural understanding), they did their upmost to help, and unlike some other demoninated people we knew there, they never ever tried to push their religion on to us. At christmas me and my dad were invited to their church to join their nativity ceremony and it was normal and they didn't have any issue that we weren't practising christians let alone not being mormon. So although I find the hardcore ones who make the news odd, on the whole I have no issue with them.
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