Non-LDS moving to Heber City (home, living in, friendly)

[MangyDog]

If you identify as a Christian believer in a protesant church what has been your personal experience living in Heber City among The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? Do you feel pressured by some to come to their church if you want friends? Do they readily want to send missionaries to your home and what has been the reaction if you have politely said no thanks? Once they find out you are not LDS and do not want to be do they tend to not be as friendly and welcoming? Are they pretty much inclusive with their own church and just socially interact with church members? I don't want to feel like an outsider and wouldn't move there if I knew this was the case.

[Hiruko]

Originally Posted by MangyDog

If you identify as a Christian believer in a protesant church what has been your personal experience living in Heber City among The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? Do you feel pressured by some to come to their church if you want friends? Do they readily want to send missionaries to your home and what has been the reaction if you have politely said no thanks? Once they find out you are not LDS and do not want to be do they tend to not be as friendly and welcoming? Are they pretty much inclusive with their own church and just socially interact with church members? I don't want to feel like an outsider and wouldn't move there if I knew this was the case.

Questions like this have been asked thousands of times on this forum. #1, Heber is not in Utah Valley and is rapidly changing with large-scale development. Many of the people moving to the area and investing in it are not associated with the Church. #2, There are gradations of Latter-day Saints, just like anyone else. There are over 16 million Latter-day Saints, so that means that there are over 16 million different Mormonisms if we're honest about it. Some will be more sociable, others will be less. Their Church membership is likely to have less impact on this than their personality or life stage. #3, It is also incumbent upon you to be open, inclusive, and tolerant of LDS people and the people who are already living there.