1174: Marlena Smith - Growing Up as a Black Mormon in Utah Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Marlena Smith’s parents joined the Mormon church as black converts after the priesthood ban was lifted (1978). After her parents moved to Utah, Marlena was born in 1989 in Provo, Utah. Marlena was raised as a devout Mormon in Lindon and Pleasant Grove - as the only black family in her ward and stake. Later Marlena attended BYU and married in the Payson temple.

This is Marlena’s story of growing up as a black Mormon woman in Utah

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0:59.2	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of mormas Stories Podcast.
1:13.1	I'm your host John DeLin.
1:15.2	It is September 11th.
1:16.4	I didn't realize that.
1:18.8	2019.
1:19.6	And today we are very excited and honored to have our interviewee.
1:29.6	Today we're going to be interviewing Marlena Smith.
1:33.6	Marlena, her parents, joined the Mormon Church as black members after the 1978 priesthood
1:45.0	band was lifted within Mormonism and raised their children in the church.
1:52.0	Eventually they moved to Utah in the early 80s.
1:55.9	I'm going to say and Marlena was born in Provo, Utah in 1989.
2:03.5	Marlena was raised again as a development here in Utah in the Linden and Pleasant Grove
2:10.2	areas.
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