1747: When Your Mormon Kids Fall Away from the Church - Lance & Brandee Heppler Pt 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 146 minutes
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Summary
Lance and Brandee Heppler began to question and ultimately leave the Mormon Church after their son Lake experienced mismanagement and mistreatment during his missionary training and service. This experience, along with their daughter Darby coming out as gay and being rejected by the Church, led them to start questioning Church teachings and practices. They also began to educate themselves about Church history and controversies through sources like the "Mormons & Masons" documentary, "Mormon Stories," and the CES Letter.
Further cracks in their faith emerged when Brandee became aware of a child abuse incident at their local stake center that had been covered up by Church leaders. Despite these concerns, the Hepplers continued to attend Church and pretend to believe for a time. However, they eventually reached a breaking point and decided to leave the Church altogether. They found that prioritizing their family and their own happiness outside of the Church was more important than following Church rules and teachings that were not serving them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | Today we're answering the question, what happens when you appear to be the |
| 0:08.1 | model Mormon family, even though there are significant mental health issues |
| 0:13.0 | within the family? What happens when you appear to be doing it all perfectly? |
| 0:18.3 | And you feel like you're doing everything as best as you can. |
| 0:21.6 | How can that all kind of fall apart? |
| 0:23.8 | And or in some ways eventually get better. |
| 0:27.6 | That's kind of the hook. |
| 0:28.9 | Today we have with us for part two of this two part Mormon stories. |
| 0:33.7 | Faith journey. |
| 0:35.0 | We have Lance and Brandy Hepler back for part two. |
| 0:38.8 | Hey guys. Hey, is all right. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah, we're good. |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah, as your vulnerability hang over from part one. |
| 0:45.3 | That was there. |
| 0:46.0 | That was laid out there a little bit. |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah. But that's okay. |
| 0:49.1 | It's it's better to be vulnerable. |
| 0:51.2 | So we're okay with it. |
| 0:53.1 | For those who didn't join us for part one, pause this, go back and watch part one |
| 0:57.8 | and come back. |
| 0:58.4 | But just to kind of recap, we talked about Lance growing up in what appeared to |
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