The Mormon Church advocates living a “Christ-like” life. Regardless of what one thinks about Mormon theology, rituals, and history, the teachings are often grounded in the teachings of Jesus.
The Mormon Church encourages a strict health code called the Word of Wisdom. LDS members are healthy and sober like the Seventh day Adventists. Things like alcohol are a major problem in American society.
The LDS church fosters a culture that seeks to be ethical, live with noble character, and practice principle-centeredness. As a result LDS culture fosters an atmosphere that generates Mormons who are generally kind, trustworthy, and giving. As the 13th LDS Article of Faith states: "We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."
It’s an organization that promotes ethics and family values in a world that often suffers from crime and violence. Mormons are generally cordial and trustworthy.
The Mormon Church promotes family values such as being good parents, and teaching kids to have high character, etc. As the late LDS leader David O. McKay once said, “The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.” The Mormon practice of family home evening brings many LDS families closer together by doing activities together and bonding more.
The Mormon Church teaches self-reliance and hard work resulting in most members being active and industrious and statistically Mormon tend to be better off financially than others on average.
Many people find the LDS church to be a great place to serve your fellow man, where LDS members take care of their own members and engage in community service; such as feeding and clothing the poor and needy. They also operate Deseret Industries.
The LDS church offers a person an existential grounding, a meaning in life through belief in a higher power, a purpose in life: a direction for their life, and a hope for a better future through belief in an afterlife, which many people find helpful.
The LDS church functions as an extended family and support group. It offers communal support and social interdependence. If you need help moving your LDS ward will come help. If you are looking for a job your LDS ward can help. You can rely on many of your fellow LDS members to come to your aid.
LDS missions provide young men and women skills for later in life. On my mission I learned invaluable public relations skills, I learned a foreign language, and how to be generous and work well with others.
Now, I cannot find anything above that is unique to Mormonism, and which cannot be found in other ideas and philosophies or among non-Mormon friends, or in other groups or organizations, religious or secular; but I believe one should give credit where credit is due.
