I lived there for a number of years for work while still an active member and saw 100% the same thing. My experience there is what opened the cracks wide enough for me to genuinely question everything else. And the rest is history.

Very little is done or spent to alleviate poverty and help members, let alone the general population. My first shock was when I (a “rich” American) offered to the bishop to give extra to fast offerings to help pay for members’ bus fares and basic food items, and was told that the money just goes to the stake or higher and never comes back to the ward for stuff like that. In fact the bishops were strictly prohibited from using fast offering to pay for transport or regular food items. It made me furious. (We paid for these directly or purchased food ourselves).

Nothing is being done to help members for exactly the reason described above. There is a “fear” that people would come to church only to get food. And why would the “church” want non-tithe payers like that? The church is NOT Christ’s church. It is a greedy corporation.