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Hi everyone, it's John DeLin and I just wanted to take a minute to give a tribute to Leah Young,

Cody Young, Brinley Young and the entire Young Family as we learned recently just yesterday or

today of their communication. I learned about the Young Family, let's just say a year,

year and a half ago, as I noticed on Facebook that Leah Young was starting to express some

concerns and doubts. You know, innocently like so many people within Mormonism, these days,

Leah made some friends and found out from some dear friends that they were having some doubts

and questions about the Mormon Church and originally out of a desire to help and support their

friends. Leah Young started to learn more about Mormonism and started to discover all sorts of things

that she didn't know before that she had never been taught and this became something that was very

distressing and troubling to Leah. And so she started to express things on Facebook

in groups and started to talk to Cody about it and of course Cody being a super Orthodox

devout Mormon. At first was hesitant and reluctant but over time Cody started studying in depth as

as a physician of someone who cares about science and evidence. Cody started digging into the Church

of Truth claims as well and over time and with much resistance Cody started also questioning and

doubting the Mormon Church and as Cody and Leah did this they started, you know, of course they

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