1740: A Belgian Mormon Story - Martine & Stuart Smith Pt 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Martine, a Belgian convert to Mormonism, shares what growing up in Belgium was like and how she and her sister end up converting to Mormonism. She eventually made it to the United States to attend General Conference and get her Patriarchal Blessing when her sister decided to serve a mission. Due to connections with several families of missionaries, she finds a job as a nanny and eventually makes it to BYU where she is reintroduced to Stuart, whom she'd briefly met as a missionary in Belgium.

Though he hadn't known her well, Stuart instantly recognized Martine at a Young Single Adult (YSA) activity and things took off from there until he asked her to be with him for eternity. Martine happily accepts this proposal from an established, generational Mormon returned missionary. However, the engagement is soon jeopardized by challenges between Martine's desire to follow the brethren's admonitions not to put off having children (and wanting a dozen of them!) as the quintessential Mormon housewife with Stuart's practicality regarding his ability to financially support children while still having several years of school left.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John
0:04.1	Delin. It is February 6th, 2023 and we have been getting lots of feedback that people
0:10.6	love a lot of the interviews that we do, but they really want to make sure we never forget
0:15.5	to do interviews with just normal Mormon folk, not necessarily authors, not necessarily
0:21.0	celebrities, but just good old salt to the earth Mormons. And that is what we have in store
0:28.1	today with an international twist and with a lot of really cool elements of a story that
0:35.1	many of you probably haven't heard before on Mormon Stories. Today we are interviewing
0:38.9	someone I consider to be a dear friend. Her name is Martin Smith. Hey, Martin. Hi, John.
0:45.3	Welcome to Mormon Stories. Thanks for having us. Martin is joined today by her husband.
0:52.6	Bishop Stuart Smith. Hey, Stuart. Morning, John. And when I say Bishop, it's in the context
0:58.5	of within Mormonism. Once a bishop, all was a bishop. It's great to have you here, Stuart.
1:03.9	Thank you. And of course, I'm joined by my partner in what I say truth in goodness, Margie.
1:09.8	Hey, Margie. Thank you for joining us. I want to give just kind of, I like to give kind
1:13.7	of the overview of why I think the story is going to be useful and valuable. There's
1:18.2	so many cool elements. Martin was a convert to the church in Belgium in her teen years.
1:26.0	We're going to talk about her conversion to Mormonism in Belgium, what brought her to the
1:30.0	United States as a Mormon teenager slash young adult. We're going to talk about her marriage
1:35.7	to Stuart. And we're going to be talking about a lot of compelling and somewhat intense topics.
1:42.7	Primarily, we're going to be talking about medical issues with children and even death
1:46.9	of children as part of this episode. It's a very important part of their story. We're
1:51.9	going to be talking about their faith journeys. There's even a point in the story where Stuart
1:57.8	becomes a bishop. I would say as a nuanced Mormon, but also while Martin was really struggling,
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