Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon stories podcast time your host John DeLin

It is August 16th 2022 and we are here in part three of

Another epic family Mormon story

With Evan Smith and Weston Smith. Hey guys. Hello. How you doing good? You wiped out yet? Are you ready?

You ready your gas tanks are filled for part three why not both? Yeah

Full gas tanks ready to go. We're here with Harado Samano. Hey Harado. Hey John. Hey everybody. Yeah and

So just a recap if you haven't watched parts one and two you want to pause and stop now go back and watch parts one and two

But basically part one was all about Evan Smith being raised in Murray Utah to orthodox faithful Mormon parents and him doing all the Mormon things

culminating in him getting married in the temple going on a mission going to law school and settling in the Boston area and

ascending his away

up through the Mormon patriarchy

into the position of a branch president and eventually Mormon Bishop and

raising his Mormon family with his dear wife and

also pursuing a position in corporate American law

focusing on startups and new business companies and ventures and

When we left part one he was a Mormon Bishop a member of his branch slash war to come out to him as gay and then eventually his son

Came out to him as gay and

Eventually decided to go serve a mission. So that was part one. We paused

Evan's story. We jumped to part two where son Weston told us about

Growing up gay in the Mormon church with your dad being Bishop what that was like

How he reached a point of sort of heavy suicidal ideation

Prior to serving a mission he comes out to his parents his aunt his brother

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