Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.

I'm your host John DeLin.

It's November 5th, 2020.

And we are super excited for our interview today on Mormon Stories Podcast.

As those of you who've been following us for years will know that we have this open

invitation to anyone who's ever served as a Mormon bishop,

a state president, mission president, you know, Mormons pay attention to levels

of leadership.

And so if you've served as a bishop or as the spouse of a bishop,

you get to come on Mormon Stories.

And recently I was grateful to have Adam and Marlena Hughes reach out to me.

The basic kind of high level summary of this interview is that 12 years ago,

Adam Hughes was serving as a Mormon bishop in Northern Arizona.

And Marlena was a state home mother of four.

Even as recently as last year, Adam and Marlena Hughes were still active believing

Orthodox Mormons living in Tucson, Arizona.

Only a few months ago in 2020, like months ago,

Adam and Marlena lost their faith in the Mormon Church completely.

And they did so while their son was preparing to leave on his mission.

And so we're going to cover their story.

We're going to try and do it in about three hours, three and a half hours.

And they've traveled here to Salt Lake City all the way from Tucson.

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