1439: A Mexican Mormon Story - Gerardo Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 224 minutes

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Summary

Join us for Part 1 of our interview with Gerardo who is a dear friend of the podcast! Growing up in an orthodox Mormon home, his story gives a unique perspective on the church in Mexico and the “Lamanite ancestry” that plays into the testimony of many of the members in Latin America. After realizing his attraction to men in his youth, Gerardo worked to keep up with expectations as the son of a prominent LDS family hoping God would “turn his weakness into strengths.”

Through stories about Evergreen, conversion therapy, Mexican EFY, and serving a faithful mission, we hear how strongly Gerardo tried to pursue the covenant path and deny his gay identity. Gerardo went to BYU-I where he met his husband, a wild story filled with intense highs and lows. Eventually questioning his faith, losing his connection to being a descendant of the Lamanites and working through disagreements with LDS family, Gerardo put his whole heart out there in this interview. Listen along for some life-changing insights from Gerardo on this epic episode of a Mexican Mormon Story!

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of WarmerStore's podcast. I'm your host John Delin. It is June 11th,
0:05.2	2021 and today I am super excited for this interview because we are literally interviewing one of my favorite humans on the planet
0:13.6	And that is why I'm excited and that is why I hope you can just trust me have faith in me that this is going to be a really important and powerful
0:23.5	Epic WarmerStore's interview today. We are interviewing
0:26.4	Herardos sumano. Hello, Herardo. How are you doing? I'm doing great. Are you embarrassed? I'm very sure a little
0:34.7	Very good. So why is Herardo one of my favorite humans because he's awesome
0:39.8	But there are so many cool things about Herardo if you notice the amazing cinematography the camera the lighting the backdrop
0:47.7	All of that is the work of Herardo. He is up to our cinematography game on WarmerStore's podcast. Yes
0:54.6	But that but that is the least believe it or not. That is the least of why
1:00.9	Herardos is so interesting and important. Herardo is smart. He's funny. He's interesting. He's wise and he has an amazing
1:09.1	Mormon story believe it or not as strange as it is we're like 2,000 hours into the life history of WarmerStore's podcast
1:16.8	And I don't believe we've ever interviewed a native Mexican correct me if I'm wrong. Is that right?
1:22.6	For you know, Herardo. Yeah, born and raised in Mexico
1:25.5	But what's just bizarre about that is that outside of the United States
1:29.7	I think Mexico and Brazil are the two countries with the highest population of Mormons and so getting a
1:36.8	Native someone raised in Mexico in the church
1:39.6	That's just a super important WarmerStore's podcast that is begging to be done. So today we're gonna do it
1:45.2	We're gonna be interviewing Herardo who was born and raised in Mexico
1:48.9	Spanish is his native language English is his second language, so that in and of itself is super important
1:54.6	But there's also so much more you know, we're gonna be talking about Herardo's faith journey
1:59.0	He has a lot of wisdom and insight. He studies Mormon truth claims and Mormon history probably more closely than I do
2:06.0	So he's got a lot of interesting things to say about Mormon apologetics Mormon history Mormon truth claims all of that
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