Interesting Newsweek article on "Mormons' New Prophet&q

Post by **_skippy the dead** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:33 am

I saw this article on Newsweek online today.

I hadn't been aware of some of the stats for the locations of members. The retention rates estimates are also interesting. And it has some nice things to say about Thomas Monson.

Read and discuss.

Post by **_Blixa** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:07 am

Tommy Monson. Oy vey.

_Ray A · Post by **_Ray A** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:11 am

As a bishop he presided over a congregation of nearly 1,000, which included some 85 widows and had the largest welfare load in the church. Every year at Christmastime he took a week of vacation from his job as a sales manager for the Deseret News to visit each widow and bring a present—often a hen that he had raised himself. Even after he left the office of bishop he continued to visit the widows at Christmas. He spoke at every one of their funerals. In his addresses to the church he frequently implores members to pay special attention to the lonely and the poor.

What an evil man. He did all of this to "enhance the financial benefits of the Corporation"