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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Dillin.

It is November 13th, 2017. It's super early in the morning and we're really excited to be continuing our series on inappropriate interviews regarding sexuality with Mormons.

And we've interviewed seven people so far and last Wednesday we hope to be able to do an eighth interview but we're right out of time.

So this morning we're going to be interviewing Isabella. That is not her real name and we will not be showing her face.

And Isabella, tell us why you don't feel comfortable using your real name or showing your face just so people understand why this could be challenging.

Sure, so I am a Bishop's daughter. My dad was a bishop on while I was growing up and when I feel uncomfortable talking about another bishop and my experience is while I don't know if, you know, my own dad did these things.

I hope not. I hope I mean he doesn't seem like he would but that's one and if that were the case it would really hurt my family. So I would I want to keep it as anonymous as possible just to not hurt my family anyway.

Totally, totally.

Well, let's jump into it. Tell us a little bit about your background and what will help us understand better your story.

Sure. So I am born and raised in the church. My parents were converts.

We moved to the United States when we were my siblings and I were really young and we were raised in California.

It's fortunate enough to be raised in a Spanish branch slash ward.

And yeah, I mean, I was a TBM until about the time I was in college and learned a lot about reality and then this recent and then left the church and just recently.

So when you say Spanish, uh, word or brands tell us a little bit more about that.

Sure. Yeah, group and a Spanish branch and you know, it became a word as well as a kid.

And for some people when you say Spanish, word or brand, they're going to think like Spain, but tell us what you know, the people there all speak Spanish.

Yeah, and it was, I mean, after watching so many Mormon stories, podcasts, I, I guess I feel fortunate that they're not that they're more welcoming, but a lot of them are converts.

So you don't have this aspect of feeling like you're like, you don't belong or you're the new kid on the block because basically everyone was there at some point.

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