1652: Growing up in the Shadow of Warren Jeffs - Elissa Wall Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
Elissa Wall is internationally known as the "woman who brought down Warren Jeffs." Never before has she been able to tell her full story, in an un-edited way. This is part 1 of her story, focusing on her upbringing in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of more maestories podcast. I am your host for today. John |
| 0:06.0 | Delin or one of your hosts. I am also joined today by the wonderful brilliant thoughtful Jen. Can't pay |
| 0:13.2 | Jen. Hi everybody. Thanks for and and I should say Jen you are the kind of the producer in this when |
| 0:18.7 | you are the one that made this episode happen. So I'm calling you out. This would not be happening |
| 0:23.7 | without you. Well I was super excited and really wanted to hear her story from her mouth. So I'm |
| 0:32.3 | super excited about the podcast today. And now listeners of viewers are like, well who's her? |
| 0:38.1 | We'll tell you. Today we are here. We have in studio Elisa Wall. Hey Elisa, how are you? Hello John |
| 0:46.6 | Jen. And audience is really awesome to be here with you. Yeah and so for those who have no idea |
| 0:53.2 | who Elisa Wall is, many of you will know or should know because Elisa was featured on the recent |
| 1:00.0 | Netflix documentary Keepsweet about the life and history and the takedown of FLDS or the fundamentalist |
| 1:07.4 | Church of Jesus Christ letter. He says prophet Warren Jeffs who's now in federal prison. |
| 1:11.6 | Elisa is important for many reasons, but she is probably known as one of the main if not the main |
| 1:18.4 | people who brought down Warren Jeffs or at least brought him to prison. And she's been on Oprah. |
| 1:24.2 | She's been on countless media outlets over the years. She is also the author of an amazing book. |
| 1:31.1 | Hold that book up Elisa. The book is called Stolen Innocence. Read that read the subtitle there. |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah, Stolen Innocence. It was published in 2008. It's my story of growing up in a plagoma sect |
| 1:42.9 | becoming a teenage bride and breaking free of Warren Jeffs. Yeah. So you're the woman that helped |
| 1:49.6 | get Warren Jeffs into prison, is that right? Yes, I am. It's always interesting to sit and listen |
| 1:57.2 | to people talk about my accolades and how I arrived where I am because there's always that voice |
| 2:02.6 | inside of us that wants to downplay the role that we have played in our life and how it's impacted |
| 2:10.2 | the world around them. And there's a part of me that still gets very humbled and incredibly |
| 2:15.7 | grateful every time I realize how essential I've been in the journey of the FLDIS. But more so |
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