Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire and I'm here to have a cup of Joe with my friend Isaac

Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me.

Isaac, we're going to talk a little bit about Mormonism, which I thought I might, you know, Church of Jesus Christ for Latter-day Saints, thought you might be a good person to talk to you to sort of translate between these two worlds.

You want to introduce yourself a little bit and maybe give a bit of a clue as to why I might

think that's the case?

Sure. So my name is Isaac and I want to apologize right up front. I'm recovering from a cough.

So I'll try to mute myself whenever I cough, but if you hear me cough or clear my throat,

that's why.

Yeah.

So I was raised a Latter-day Saint.

I was, I just grew up through the 80s and the 90s and the early 2000s.

I went on a mission.

I attended BYU.

So I was a Latter-day Saint for about 35 years. And then about five years ago, I was,

I converted to Catholicism and was baptized into the Catholic Church. And I've shared my story

on some other platforms before. I've been on Matt Fred's channel and Lila Rose. And so if people

want like a deep dive on my conversion story, they can kind of go there.

But yeah, I still have a lot of connections to the Latter-day Saint community as well. I have close family and friends who are still LDS. Yeah, I was going to say, it seems like you still have a lot of, I mean, sometimes you have like the bitter X member. And that doesn't seem to be your case. you seem to have a great deal of love for the LDS community,

maybe certain members in particular

that you're related to and friends and all that with.

But yeah, so your exmo, I think, is the term, but you're not like a bitter exmo.

I, in internet parlance, I am exmo.

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