The only reason I became Mormon was because I snuck a taste of "Funeral Potatoes!" 😁

[HankMoody316]

Honestly, I haven’t met any Mormons in the flesh (at least not to my knowledge), but, rather unfortunately, when Mormonism comes up in my readings, what I read tends to show it as… pretty dysfunctional. And not even in the sort of sensationalist “ooh, polygamy, magic underwear, and living in an afterlife on another planet” way, just in the same sort of mundane dysfunctions as everyone else. It’s rather telling that (outside of a mommy blogger/barefoot model whose faith doesn’t come up all that often, and is probably something of a dissenter due to being openly bisexual), the closest thing I’ve found to a real-life Mormon who really had it together was Travis Alexander.

Well, it's hard to find a good metric for "dysfunctional" but we are taught in church that we have the lowest divorce rate, lowest teen pregnancy rate, and spend the highest percentage of our life volunteering for philanthropic causes such as feeding the homeless or building homes from scratch through "Habitat for Humanity". At the end of the day though, we are only human and we share the same struggles as you do. (stress, addictions, depression, worry, fear, etc..) As far as what you've read goes:

• Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.