1481: My Mormon Mission Left Me Disabled - Lauren Rogers Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Rogers is our guest today for this epic two-part Mormon Stories interview. After suffering through a restrictive diet, harassment, and medical neglect on her Mormon mission to Chile, Lauren found herself permanently disabled as she made her way back home to the US.

In part two, Lauren also tells us about the same-sex attraction she repressed throughout her life as a devout Mormon and descendant of Brigham Young, eventually leading to an extremely fascinating exit from the church and a wildly eye-opening description of how she continues a healthy relationship with her husband.

It’s a gripping story from start to finish! Even Lauren’s shelf breaker and realizations about God might be a first-ever for Mormon Stories! We hope you’ll resonate with Lauren’s incredible, epic story!

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Show Notes:

Lauren’s Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@exmo_mom_?lang=en
Ted Lyon MS episode: https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/missionary-sexual-assault/
Gospel topics essays: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/essays?lang=eng
Matt Harris Mormon Stories episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmjj2kbxFnQ
Eldon Kartchner - https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/eldon-kartchner-mixed-orientation-marriage/
Josh and Lilly Weed: https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/josh-and-lolly-weed-on-their-love-story-mixed-orientation-marriages-and-ldslgbt-issues/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmer Stories podcast. I'm your host John
0:04.1	DeLin. It is August 30th, 2021 and we have had a great month on Warmer Stories podcast.
0:11.0	We are just rocking and rolling and today is going to be no exception. Let me first begin
0:16.8	by reintroducing Carabarell. Hey, Cara, thanks for joining us. It's great to have you.
0:21.8	It's great to be here. I mean, I do have the best job in the world. So not a problem
0:26.8	to show up for work today. I'm excited for this one. I do like it. So Cara, I introduced
0:31.4	Cara first because Cara took over or basically launched Warmer Stories podcast TikTok channel
0:37.6	a couple of months ago now. We just passed a million likes on the channel where what, 60,000
0:43.8	followers? How many? It's neck and neck with my new Onsau channel, which is like kind
0:49.5	of like, I don't know, depressing or cool, but yeah, it's around the, it's around 66,000.
0:54.3	66,000, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And one of the cool initiatives that we launched early on
1:01.1	to try and spur more progressive and post-warmen involvement in TikTok is we created a hashtag
1:07.8	called My Amorment Story. We have so many people who come to us, I think at least 10 a day
1:13.4	come and say, can I be on Warmer Stories podcast? And we, number one, don't have a way
1:18.5	to really screen and filter everybody. Don't have the time to do that. And number two,
1:22.3	we don't like being the filter for people's story. And so we had this idea of creating
1:27.0	a hashtag on TikTok called My Amorment Story and ask you all to try to see if you could
1:32.8	do your Warmer Story in less than a minute or less than three minutes, depending on what
1:37.0	your TikTok limit is. And so that hashtag now has over like 1.2 million views on TikTok.
1:43.0	A bunch of you have done it. And what we promised is that we would pick, you know, a few of
1:48.8	the people who created a My Amorment Story TikTok video to come on Warmer Stories. And we're
1:54.0	going to do several. We're going to kind of have that be an ongoing thing. And the first
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