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Hardest nights of my life. i just thought, you know, everything was kind of caving in, and how was i going to move forward? the next morning i realized, you know, i needed to be home and be the father. >> meanwhile, the community reaches out and launches a massive search effort. devout mormons, the smarts lean on their family and their faith as they continue their public pleas for elizabeth's return. >> please release elizabeth. please let her go. >> be strong. and be ready to come because you're going to be with us soon. >> every single day was torture. getting up. you know, and nighttimes we...

Mormons do believe this is their moment in time. and they're very excited about it. >> abby huntsman, part of a prominent mormon family who had her own journey within the mormon church. up next here tonight, we go inside a thoroughly modern mormon family and look at life and those rules about food and clothing and worship. if you are one of the millions of men who have used androgel 1%, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your t...

They reach down to help another mormon. >> is there a mormon network? >> i think there is a terrific mormon network. it starts in church. you meet a guy, and after going to church with him for two years, or school, you say, he's a good guy. i trust him. i know his wife. my kids play with his kids. so three years from now when you're looking to put a deal together, who do you call? you call that guy. >> reporter: hard work, thrift, all seem to be part of the mormon dna. isn't there like a mormon hymn called "shoulder to the wheel"? >> shoulder to the wheel. no one shirt, put your shoulder to th...

Wife every night, that's a no-brainer. >> comedy now takes libertys with mormons, say nothing about the polygamy-based dramas, and then there's broadway. ♪ >> it's a hugely successful broadway show, and veteran yale professor john butler who has studied and taught religion for over 30 years reminds us mormonism is a hugely successful religion. >> it's a distinctly american religion. it is the most successful of the religions created in america. >> to be more exact, it was created in palmyra in upstate new york. in 1923, a man named george smith reported visits and visitations from an angel, ...

Founder, george smith, in 1948. bringi brigham young, whose great-grandson is hall of famer steve young, they started the church of latter-day saints, lds for short. but part of the church they can't shake is polygamy. >> that is our history. it is what it is, and we make no apologies for that. >> steven snow is the official church historian. he concedes that even though polygamy was officially banned a century ago, it's something the church still has to deal with. >> we believe that was god's will at the at the time, but we believe that stopped and our prophet told us that was no longer accep...