Thread by @modernhomesla

Sista Kimba
Book of Mormon
Secret Text
Just Believe

Hiya Uganda!
"Hello.
U have a
lovely mud hut.
If u just put down the gun,
oh, I'll leave."
🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mormon Drug #Missions
Mexico #SinaloaDrugCartel
Mormon polygamists
LDS
#Mab

*Plural Marriage
🤦‍♂️
Drug Cartels

Church of Later-day Saints
w their *American God,
distancing themselves from
#fundamentalist/polygamist groups
split from Mormon church
who have navigated life
amid #DrugWar
in northern Mexico.

Back+fro
Utah <> Mexico

nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/…

Long unaffiliated w
mainstream church,
#polygamist Mormon
communities put down stakes
in N. Mexico
originated in late 1880s,
when # of families moved
2 #Chihuahua + #Sonora.

Incl Miles Park Romney,
great-grandfather of
Senator #MittRomney,
Republican|GOP of #Utah

Families of La Mora r independents
who broke off from lgr
fundamentalist movement in 1950s,
tho some share same name as
dist family members
in separate
LeBarón community.👈

3 family branches
make up group:
#Langfords
#Stubbs
LeBaróns👈

#Polygamy
Drugs
nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/…

1950s,
#JoelLeBarón
helped establish community
in northern Mexico
in order 2 pursue polygamous Mormon life,
says Ruth Wariner,
who was 39th of 42 children
whom Joel had
w 6 wives.

nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/…

Joel’s brother,
Ervil LeBarón,👈
split from church
2 start his own following
who believed in blood-atonement
in some cases violence
as punishment 4 sin,
ult resulting in Joel’s killing.
Ervil was suspected in
series of killings
of rival religious leaders.
archive.is/KUiu7

Early 90s, after
Ervil LeBarón died in prison
things grew more peaceful
until drug traffickers emerged.

In rcnt yrs,
LeBarón com estab
sort of truce w cartels

"They had understanding."
community wouldn't go after traffickers
if traffickers lft com members alone.

#Sinaloa
#CDS

"Families traveling between
the LeBarón + #LaMora communities
getting stopped lately
by cartel members
who asked where going
+ what they doing."

#Cartel members
recently warning people
2 “stay off” road between
the La Mora + #LeBarón communities
at night.
archive.is/KUiu7

America's Oh Gahd.

Prophet Hoo-Ha.

Mormons r cult members.

Cults tend 2 get mob-y.

#LDS
#ChurchOfLaterDaySaints
Scientology
Jehovah's Witnesses
Zionists
*Fundamentalists🤦‍♂️
👆

Are they more Libertarian?

Elder Paul
suggests
#BookofMormon
👇👇😏

Compile more dumping
@threadreaderapp .
Let's roll, unroll
+ roll all over again.

🚍🚍🚍🚍🚍🚍🚍

@threadreaderapp Hoo Boy.

Now we bring in

NXIVM

Mormons
Drug Cartels
Sex Slaves
Girls

LeBaron little nuts.
chron.com/news/article/V…