Hey everybody, welcome to Latter Day Struggles.

This is your host, Valerie, and happy to have you here all with me today.

And happy to have you here with me today, Nathan Hammaker.

Hi. How are you?

I'm good. Good to be back.

You find us on, I think, an episode three of this little three-part series that we have put together interrupting our regularly scheduled programming in order to share with you our thoughts and feelings

and experiences, not only working with you our thoughts and feelings and experiences,

not only working with you for the last three years here on the Latter Day Struggles

platform, but also sharing with you sort of the unfolding events of the last,

well, I was going to say a couple of weeks, but I guess it's safe to say,

I don't know, maybe the last year and a half, I think,

would be a pretty good estimation of what we have shared and

it's unfolding. And I guess a couple things. Number one, if you haven't listened to the first part

of this series, this is where Nathan and I walked you all through the notice that we received that we were being invited

to a disciplinary council through our stake here in the Kansas City area. And also, we felt

like it was really important to share with you, first of all, our tireless and diligent

efforts leading up to this point to try as hard as we could to share

with our local priesthood leaders how much we care about our own people, members, and those

around the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and that we both feel really called to

serve this demographic of our own people. Nathan and I are lifelong, multi-generation members of the

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And I have had a lot of experiences, really spanning a couple of

decades that have brought me to this point where I have decided to pivot

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