Hey, hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon stories podcast. I'm John Delin. It is January 24th

2023 and we are here in part four of this epic interview with Liz Lamson. Hey Liz. Hi

Back in the hot sea. We'll give you a chance to talk about your outfit your your costume and makeup

but I'll just give a quick overview. We've already done three parts with Liz. I'm going to do like the 32nd version

Liz was born to an African American father from Louisiana and a South Korean mother and her mother

abandoned the family when Liz was 10

Liz made some friends in Colorado who were LDS and

sort of converted

Belief wise to the Mormon Church as a teenager was a dry Mormon her father wouldn't let her get baptized

That was kind of part one of this epic series with Liz

Part two is her time at BYU where she

Not only got baptized into the Mormon Church, but that also

became a part of BYU's elite orchestra where she toured the world playing the stand-up base and

And decided to do the Mormon marriage and motherhood thing part three was a focus on

Liz's experience having five children with her husband Sam doing the Mormon mommy marriage thing and

How she also tried to be a working mom during that time and how that wasn't always as fun and is happy as she thought it would be and

And we ended part three talking about race and black lives matter and her perspective being a black believing Mormon woman in Utah

during kind of the

Trump

MAGA

black lives matter era and

We ended part three

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