1526: Joining Mormonism from Zimbabwe - Gerald and Makenzie Benzi pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 182 minutes
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Summary
Mormon Stories is proud to welcome our first Mormon convert from Zimbabwe, Gerald Benzi, and his wife Makenzie Benzi to the podcast for an epic three part series of their story. In part one, we discuss Gerarld’s life being raised in Zimbabwe, what it was like moving to the US, and deciding to take religion seriously and taking the missionary discussions. Among some of the topics we cover are gender roles, racism, and whether or not missionaries target immigrants. Please join us for this three part series to also learn about Makenzie and how their faith as a couple progressed through the years.
Show Notes:
- Talking with the Benzis podcast by Makenzie and Gerald
- Makenzie's Instagram
- Makenzie's lifecoaching and speech therapy
- The CES Letter
- The Gift of the Mormon Faith Crisis
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Brene Brown
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:03.5 | Dr. John DeLin. It is November 24th, 2021 and we are super excited. It's the day before |
| 0:10.3 | Thanksgiving in the United States and we are super excited for this special interview |
| 0:15.1 | on Mormon Stories podcast. I am joined today as always these days by my wonderful co-host |
| 0:21.0 | Cara Burrell. Hey Cara. Hey John. Happy almost Thanksgiving. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah. Happy almost Thanksgiving to you. How you doing? |
| 0:26.3 | I am so excited. Yeah. Do anything fun for Thanksgiving? |
| 0:31.2 | Spending time with family. That's what it's all about. |
| 0:33.1 | It's just really fun. Yeah. Well thanks for joining us. We are really excited to have |
| 0:38.4 | in studio Gerald and Mackenzie Benzi. Welcome guys. |
| 0:43.3 | Hi John. Thanks for having us. All the way from Atlanta. |
| 0:46.1 | All the way. Yeah. My car. Can you drove? Yeah we did. |
| 0:50.3 | From Atlanta. Yes. Holy moly. That's how much we love this podcast. |
| 0:54.5 | Oh my gosh. We sacrificed our sleep for you John. Thank you. |
| 0:58.5 | Thank you. I was honored already. Now I'm doubly honored. |
| 1:01.5 | Yes. So I've been telling people for a long time. You know like when we had Roger Hendrix |
| 1:07.7 | on Mormon Stories podcast he told us that the church's strategy is the bet all in on |
| 1:12.4 | Africa. And while the church loses its membership in the United States, Canada, Western Europe |
| 1:18.8 | and it's even losing in Mexico and Latin America and the Philippines in many ways. It seems |
| 1:22.7 | like the church is really banking on its future growth being in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 1:27.9 | So I've had a call out for a long time for listeners and viewers who would like to come |
| 1:33.9 | on Mormon Stories if they're from Africa to kind of tell their story. And I don't know |
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