1684: A Japanese-American Mormon Story - Jeff and Larissa Kindred Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

Join us as we meet Jeff & Larissa Kindred and follow their stories growing up as Latter-day Saints. Jeff's story includes a grooming scoutmaster, his love of sports, attending Snow College, and serving a mission in Jackson, Mississippi where he dealt with scrupulosity, unhealthy diet and exercise, becoming AP, and wrestling with racism in the Church culture & scripture.

Larissa's story involves her Japanese-American heritage, and gives a brief introduction on the history of anti-Japanese sentiment in Utah, including having been home to a Japanese "Work" Camp in Topaz. Larissa tells of the struggles her grandparents faced assimilating into Utah Culture and dealing with the loss of their own. Larissa also describes racism she experienced growing up in American Fork, UT and Mormon culture's ideals matching white beauty standards.

And this is just the beginning! Jeff and Larissa have a lot of experiences that many current and former Mormons will relate to and experiences that will be new for many to hear.

Larissa Kindred

Jeff Kindred:

Twitter: @jeff_kindred

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John
0:03.7	Delin. It is October 24th, 2022 and we have an epic Mormon Stories podcast for you today.
0:11.7	We have with us Jeff and Larissa Kindred. Hey guys. Hi. Welcome. Thanks. We're excited.
0:18.2	They're here all the way from Nashville, Tennessee. But today's Mormon Stories episode
0:23.2	just has so many key central themes that are so crucial to our Mormon Stories audience.
0:29.9	We're going to be talking about Larissa growing up as an LDS church member in Utah of
0:34.8	Japanese American descent. We're even going to be talking about topaz in the Japanese
0:40.7	concentration camps, you know, around World War II time period and growing up in a multiracial
0:46.6	family in Utah. Jeff has stories about growing up here in Salt Lake City, Brighton High
0:51.7	School. He had a grooming scout master. We're going to be talking about that. Jeff played
0:58.3	basketball and tennis at the kind of the state level here for the Bengals. So that's fun.
1:05.0	But we're going to be talking about infertility in marriage, adoption in marriage, multiracial
1:10.6	adoption in marriage. Both of them served in high leadership positions, including relief
1:15.6	society, presidencies, bishop ricks and state-guy councils. But we're also going to be talking
1:21.9	about kind of social awakenings in the past couple of recent years, you know, becoming
1:27.0	awakened to women's issues, to racial issues, to LGBTQ issues and other sorts of issues and
1:33.6	how that affected their marriage. We're going to be talking about COVID and cancer and breast
1:37.8	cancer. Larissa was diagnosed with breast cancer and had double mastectomy that we'll be
1:45.1	talking about. We're going to be talking about sexual dysfunction. The way sometimes more
1:49.9	minimum sets couples up for sexual dysfunction, how they have worked through that. And to boot,
1:58.2	they will be talking about having an LGBTQ child and multiracial adoption. And then finally,
2:05.5	their faith journey. Holy moly. It's like you checked everything. That was a good teaser
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