Hello everyone and welcome back to part two of our amazing interview with Laura Schnell.

I'm Dr. John DeLynn.

We are here on Mormon Stories podcast and we are joined of course by the amazing Caraburrell.

Hey, Cara.

I was grabbing some coffee to get ready for this part too.

Don't worry, I'm already energized from part one.

I don't need it.

I'm just thirsty.

No, that looks great to have you, Cara.

For those of you who are joining us without listening to part one, we just spent an amazing

two and a half-ish hours with Laura Schnell or as I like to call her, Lara Marcella Garcia

Gomez Bunyan de Schnell.

And we had an amazing interview learning about what it's like to be or what it was like

for Laura to be born in Colombia, to be raised in Mormon in Colombia, to be baptized in

Colombia, but then to have her parents divorced, to immigrate to the United States with her

mom and sister, her dad ended up staying behind, parents got divorced, and then to be raised

in Queens, New York, in a Hispanic branch or a Spanish branch in the LDS church.

And that's a really cool and important story just about immigration and it's basically

an inspiring story of courage and of strength and of not only her mom's hard work in dedication,

but her and her sister's resilience, but also to be candid of a Mormon branch that really

wrapped their arms around this immigrant family and loved and supported them up until that

white return missionary from Arizona sweeps Laura's mom off her feet and they move to

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