Episode 293: Krista Mortensen and Kyra Dunshee (Sisters): When Your Child Leaves the Church

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

My friends Krista Mortensen (mother of 6) and Kyra Dunshee (mother of 10), both active LDS with decades of Church service, talk about how to keep the family circle together and strong when a child leaves the Church. I become aware of Krista from her July 2020 Ensign Article called “You Love, He Saves” https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2020/07/you-love-he-saves. Krista shares more of the story behind this excellent article and her efforts to be honest about their family situation instead of putting up the ‘perfect family’ image. Kyra also has adult children who have left the Church and shares valuable insights into the role of an LDS parent in this situation and the need to make our wards and families safer for having real and honest conversations. Kyra has found my brother David Ostler’s book called Bridges: Ministering To Those Who Question extremely helpful and has placed dozens of copies (available at Deseret Book and Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bridges-Ministering-Those-Who-Question/dp/158958726X). If you are active LDS and have children who have left the Church or want to be better prepared for this possibility, please listen to these insightful women. They share principals and thoughts into the Atonement of Jesus Christ that bring hope, peace, more understanding. The help us replace fear and heartache with love and peace. Thank you Krista and Kyra for being on the podcast. You two are two of my new heroes. Your message is so needed. Your Ensign article and this podcast will help thousands.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.0	My guest on today's podcasts are two sisters, my friend Krista Mortensen and her sister, my friend Ky Kyra, Kira Dunci.
0:21.3	Welcome to the...
0:21.9	K-Y-R-A-K-R-A-K-R-A-K-R-A-K-R-A-K-R-A-K-R-A-G-R-G-R-E.
0:28.2	Will you say hello?
0:30.2	Hello.
0:31.1	And Krista, will you say hello?
0:32.9	Hello, thanks for inviting us. We'll probably hear more from Krista in this podcast,
0:38.2	but both of these women, as I've been visiting with them,
0:40.6	have similar things to share with our listeners.
0:44.5	We're going to talk about LDS parents that are faithful in the church,
0:49.5	have done everything they're supposed to do
0:51.0	and still have children that leave the church.
0:54.1	And if you are an LDS parent that still have children that leave the church.
1:00.3	And if you are an LDS parent that has somebody who's left the church, this podcast will be really helpful for you to just know how to navigate this road because that can be a really
1:04.9	painful experience.
1:07.5	Krista Mortensen had an article in the Ensign that came out in the July end sign of 2020.
1:13.6	It's called You Love, He Saves, by Krista Rogers Mortensen.
1:21.6	Krista, in a moment, we'll have her actually read that end sign article.
1:25.6	It's not very long.
1:26.6	We'll have it read it word for word for the podcast, and then we'll spend her actually read that Ensign article. It's not very long. We'll have it read
1:28.4	word for word for the podcast, and then we'll spend the rest of the podcast talking about the
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