1466: Mormon Nuclear Submarine Commander & His Family - Kelly and Heather Laing Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 239 minutes
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Summary
Batten down the hatches and prepare for an epic Mormon Stories interview like you’ve never heard before! Part of what is often called “the Silent Service”, former nuclear submarine commander, Kelly Laing and his family, finally speak out. We dive deep in this three part interview and hear from Heather and Kelly Laing, followed by two of their four children, Britton and Mason, in part 2.
In this episode, we discuss Heather and Kelly’s courtship as teens, the road Kelly took into the military, and the ways they kept their family and love life afloat.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. It is August 1st, |
| 0:07.0 | 2021 and today |
| 0:09.0 | Hold on to your hats sit at the edge of your seats. You're in store for one of those epic |
| 0:15.0 | Family Mormon Stories Podcast interviews today. We are interviewing the Lang family. Hey Lang family. Good morning |
| 0:23.2 | You guys doing phenomenal. Wonderful. Good to be here with you John |
| 0:27.0 | So for those of you who don't know anything about the Lang family, which I'm sure is most of you |
| 0:32.0 | I'll just give you a quick high level introduction. This is an epic Mormon story. It's gonna be in multiple parts |
| 0:37.9 | It's gonna be over multiple hours, but there's so much here. So Kelly and Heather Lang are the parents of four children |
| 0:46.6 | They have a traditional kind of story that you're all going to find compelling |
| 0:51.9 | You'll hear that Kelly and Heather both served you know lifelong colleagues in the church at |
| 0:57.7 | Significant levels of leadership and that's all always interesting in its own right |
| 1:02.2 | Some of you who have followed X Mormon Reddit will recognize their faces because occasionally |
| 1:07.9 | They've posted photos of themselves as X Mormons on X Mormon Reddit because they are friends with with my dear friends |
| 1:15.4 | Jerry and Julie Johnson who live up in Bremerton, Washington |
| 1:19.2 | For those of you who watched several years ago my epic interview with Jerry and Julie Johnson and Doug and Laurie check it |
| 1:26.2 | It was two couples two sisters and then two missionary companions who did this epic kind of seven plus hour Mormon stories interview |
| 1:34.5 | Which it goes down is one of my favorites Jerry and Julie and Doug and Laurie become dear friends |
| 1:39.4 | So they're they're connected to this story because all these people live in the same kind of Bremerton, Washington |
| 1:45.6 | Ward but a shout out to to Jerry and Julie and all their family as well |
| 1:50.3 | But this is going to be an an interview kind of in that same vein |
| 1:54.4 | Where we're interviewing multiple family members, and I'm really excited about that |
| 1:58.2 | I also am going to add that this is super interesting because Kelly is |
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