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Mormon Stories Podcast

1254: Sian Wall Coombs - Navigating a Faith Crisis in Wales, U.K. Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

For today's Mormon Stories Podcast interview we will speak with Sian Wall Coombs. Sian is a mother of 5 who lives in Wales (U.K.). We will be discussing:

- Her life as the 7th of 9 children in a Welsh Mormon family,
- Her parents' very public divorce,
- Dealing with the difficulties of teenage pregnancy and church discipline,
- Her marriage to a church convert and life as an orthodox Mormon,
- Her faith crisis, and
- Her process of navigating life after Mormonism.

Transcript

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Okay, so you marry a convert?

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You've brought in, I mean, a happy result of your sin is that you brought someone to the

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gospel, right?

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That's got to be good in some ways.

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Yeah.

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And so you get married?

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You got married.

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So that's the one thing.

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So we in Paul had decided our baby was due in August and our wedding was booked for

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August.

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We booked our wedding.

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And so I think there was like a 10 day difference and I was like, we can't get married

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on that date because of the being might come first, happy 9 months pregnant.

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So we'd planned in our heads that we would postpone the wedding by a year because who wants

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