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Lord, I want to welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host,

John DeLin. It is August 30, 2018 and we are amidst a very important time. Again, I'm

John DeLin your host and we are here today to interview Sam Young. Many of you will

know that we've been following Sam Young for quite some time. Not only is he a dear friend of mine,

we go back many, many years. His dad and my dad were business partners back in the 80s in Houston,

Texas. But recently Sam Young has been trying to fight as a former Mormon Bishop for improvements

within the LDS Church and Sam Young started an organization called Protect LDS Children.

He's been fighting over the past year to help the Mormon Church improve its practices in terms of

interviews for children, stopping sexually explicit interviews, and trying to prevent more sexual

abuse of children than the LDS Church. And now after leading a March in Salt Lake City,

after getting tens of thousands of people to sign petitions after personally protesting and abstaining or

voting opposed in ward and state conferences and even general conference, Sam concluded these efforts

with the 23-day fast in Salt Lake City to protect LDS Children. That's two days longer than Gandhi fasted.

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