Ah, the Mormons. I worked with a young Mormon kid at Farm Credit in the early 90's. Great guy- very friendly, gift of gab, could talk to anyone.
I was showing him the territory, and we went by this really nice dairy. I knew who the owner was, they didn't use credit, I had never stopped in. He said, "Lets stop and meet him." Now, I had always had a little trouble with "cold calls"- I needed a reason to stop, or some kind of lead-in, so I wouldn't just be hanging out there. Not so him. We stopped, the guy was a little aloof to start with, but Richard engaged him, and soon we were having pie and coffee in the house. Very successful call.
I asked him how he could just stop at a total stranger's place, and he said he had done his Mormon mission in the black segment of New Orleans- "Everyone was black, everyone was bigger than me, and everyone was resistant to white strangers. I learned how to survive in that context, and now, I fear no one."
He transferred back to eastern Idaho as soon as an opening came up, and I never heard from him again. I'm sure he was successful.
We had a record flood in 2007- about 150 Mormon young people came to help. They wore distinctive yellow shirts, and their approach to people was "We're from the Mormon church, and we're here to help. What can we do to help you?" Turned out, the dirtiest job at most places was crawling under houses, in the mud, and pulling out the sodden floor insulation. So they added a sentence to their greeting- "Has the insulation under your house been removed yet? We'd be glad to do that." Members of the community "adopted" individual crews, and would have their clothes from the last job washed and dried by the time they finished the present one, so they could have fresh clothes for the next one. The kids later said that that became kind of a focus to get them through the job- "the sooner we get this done, the sooner we can get cleaned up and changed into warm, clean clothes."
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