Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John

Delin. Today we are super excited to interview Brindley Jensen. Hey, Brindley. Hi.

Over the past several years as millennial and Gen Z Mormons are starting to question

their faith and or leave the church. One of the topics that we've been really interested

in covering is what's it like to be raised as a believing Orthodox Mormon? Sometimes

in Utah in kind of the 2020s and then also what's it like to serve a mission in the 2020s

right now during this time, either COVID or post COVID when so many people are, you know,

especially so many young people are actually leaving the church. Well, I learned about

Brindley on Instagram because Brindley was raised Mormon. She was raised learning about

things like Mormon Stories podcast, learning to fear these sorts of quote anti-Mormon elements

of social media. She entered the mission field as a believing Mormon and started to experience

doubts and to question her testimony and maybe even have sort of a bit of a feminist awakening

while she was serving as a missionary. Is that right, Brindley? Yes, definitely. Yeah.

It was an interesting experience for sure. And so, you know, we're going to be covering

many themes today. We're going to be covering what it's like to be raised in the Mormon

church as a teenager in the modern era, you know, within the past few years. What's it

like to serve a mission and to start having serious doubts or questions on your mission?

We'll find out whether Brindley leaves her mission early or not, whether she completes

her mission after she experiences questions and doubts on her mission and then how she

has navigated her doubts and questions since coming home from her mission. And how long

ago did you leave the mission field? I got home a little over a year ago. So July,

2021. So you've been home for a little over a year from your mission. Yeah. And if it's

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