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Letter: More than a fast and a prayer

FILE- In this Jan. 3, 2018, file photo, the angel Moroni statue, silhouetted against the sky, sits atop the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, defended how it uses and invests member donations after a former church employee charged in a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the faith had improperly built a $100 billion investment portfolio using member donations that are supposed to go to charitable causes. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Al Capone once said that you can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could get much farther with a fast and a prayer and $1 billion from their $100 billion reserve fund than a fast and a prayer alone.

Matthew Tezak, Layton

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