Hi again, your polygamy listeners. This is Lindsay Hansen Park, the host of the podcast.

You know, I wanted to give an opening for this because I have spoken to many faithful Mormons, Mormon fundamentalists, people from all over the Mormon spectrum.

But this interview is very unique for me. I, for the first time, have talked to a faithful member of the

FLDS Church. For those who don't know, the FLDS Church is notoriously, I guess you could use a word

secretive, but really they are a very isolated group. They stay away from outsiders. As you will hear

from the woman in this podcast,

she told me that they do this to avoid being in large groups. They don't like to gather in large

groups anymore. They feel like that makes them a target. So I had the unique opportunity with the

help of Christine Katzis, who is on here, to interview a faithful member of the FLDS. Now, if you are just tuning

into the podcast for the first time, I always tell listeners to go all the way back to episode one

to get the entire history because context is critical, always, always, always. But especially

in this case, if you haven't listened to the episodes I did on the history of the FLDS, you might want to do that because this episode deserves to have the context.

My heart goes out to people who are going to be listening to this who have been sent away from the FLDS or who have left the FLDS.

I imagine that hearing this other side, this different narrative, maybe a narrative that you were familiar with growing up, it might seem painful and it might be hurtful to hear these things.

I think it's an important story to tell, though. It's a story that's not being told, at least not

publicly, even if it's a story that many of you grew up hearing. I think it illustrates the

perspective of a faithful Mormon fundamentalist, a faithful FLDS woman,

and that story needs to be told.

It will highlight some things and give you some perspectives of maybe why choices are being

made the way that they are.

And you might be frustrated at times thinking, well, maybe, you know,

they just don't know the truth or they don't know my history. But I'm grateful that they took the leap of

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