Here's part two on growing up conservative evangelical Christian in the Midwest.

This time I am a telling a few stories that impacted me and how I'm still dealing with

some of the lingering issues from this time in my life still to this day.

And if you missed it, we had a part one where Elsie shared her experiences growing up and

I likely will reference some of that.

So if you didn't hear it, you might want to go back and listen to that one first.

So when Elsie and I were preparing for this, I really wanted to make sure that I kind

of organized my thoughts one but also shared some pros as well as some of the things that

impacted me negatively because growing up in the church, I don't think it was all negative.

I think there were a number of positive things and I just don't really want that to be

100% lost but I won't lie, the negative things impacted me a lot more and you'll hear

that.

So anyway, I'm just going to go through a few three things on the pros list and these

are very random and these are not the only pros.

I kind of was just sort of trying to put some lighter stuff on here, I'll be honest.

So here's some pros that are very balanced.

Thank you.

Okay, so pro number one of growing up in church, I got really, really good at taking notes

during lectures.

Another word for a lecture is sermon and this turned out to be a very valuable skill

when I went to college.

At our church, the youth group sat all the youth in one kind of area and it was up front

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