1724: Joining the Mormon Church at BYU - Liz Lambson Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 145 minutes
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YouTube link: https://youtu.be/cGm7kpKh9KI
We continue Liz’s journey as she goes to BYU and gets baptized. Liz explains her interactions with church and BYU culture, and the effect of “worthiness” interviews w/LDS leadership once she is an official member.
At BYU Liz struggles to fit in with white culture and begins struggling with symptoms of mental illness along with outbursts of creativity. Things get heavy with a friend’s suicide as she battles her own depressive thoughts.
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Liz Lambson is a Korean/African American artist, musician, and writer, and - along with her spouse Sam - is a parent to five boys residing in Salt Lake City. Liz performs as a string bassist with the Ballet West Orchestra as well as the children’s singer-songwriter Lizzy Luna, the creator of the music-and-movement program Yoga Storytime & Songs. Liz performed for and toured with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for several years. She released her first album of original children’s yoga music, Reach to the Sky, in 2018. Her writing has been featured in publications including the New Era and the New York Times.
As an active member of Utah’s arts and culture community, Liz formerly served as the Executive Director of the Utah Black History Museum. Her artwork is featured on Salt Lake City’s Black Lives Matter mural at City Hall. Liz is also an aspiring film actress.
In her spare time she enjoys needlework, gardening, road trips, and Scrabble.
Liz's Instagram: @lizzylambson
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to part two of my interview with Liz Lampson. |
| 0:05.4 | I already gave an introduction and we just spent two and a half really good hours with |
| 0:10.7 | Liz. |
| 0:11.9 | If you have not watched the first part yet, please pause, go back to the first. |
| 0:16.2 | But Liz Lampson's story is amazing. |
| 0:19.1 | For those who follow the arts in Utah and in Salt Lake City, Liz is a bassist. |
| 0:24.6 | Is that the way to pronounce it? |
| 0:27.0 | She is performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Choir Temple Square. |
| 0:31.6 | She performs with ballet West. |
| 0:33.8 | But she's also a painter and she painted beautiful painting in Martin King Jr. for the Black |
| 0:43.4 | Lives Matter exhibit here in Salt Lake City that is it's shown at the Capitol, right? |
| 0:50.1 | Well actually that one's at my house. |
| 0:52.2 | But are you thinking of the Black Lives Matter mural? |
| 0:54.4 | Yes. |
| 0:55.4 | City Hall? |
| 0:56.4 | Okay, okay. |
| 0:57.4 | But yeah, I do some art. |
| 0:59.4 | I also painted a mural for the Black Student Union at Salt Lake Community College. |
| 1:04.7 | So if you go to the Multicultural Center at the... |
| 1:08.3 | Not the campus, the Redwood campus is what you call it? |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah, go to the Multicultural office there and there's a giant mural of lots of beautiful |
| 1:19.1 | black faces there. |
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