Episode 330: Jake Young, RM Edmonton, LGBTQ Ally

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

My friend Jake Young (currently studying Entrepreneurship at BYU), shares reasons why he believes and wants to stay in our Church and things he disagrees with and hopes will change. Jake represents many of our Gen Z members with a world view on fairness, equality and reaching out those on the margins—and see where their faith communities sometimes stumble in these areas. Jake is deeply spiritual and student of the scriptures and is serious about his spiritual journey and loving everyone. I believe he represents the future of our Church and society. I was deeply moved listening to this good man honestly share his feelings and insights into the doctrine of Christ to love and support everyone. I believe we need to do a better job to make space for the men and women like Jake Young in our Church. Good members who do not agree with some aspects of our history and some of our current positions—but have testimonies of our restored doctrine. And doing much to honor their baptism covenants to sit with and lift the burdens of others. You can find Jake on IG at @jakeballa5. Thank you for being on the podcast Jake. You are wise, thoughtful, kind, and with a spiritual maturity that is remarkable for a man you age. Keep being you. The world needs people like you. ** Please check out my new Book** Deseret Book: www.deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1462135773

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.2	My guest on today's podcast is a current BYU student, return missionary, my friend Jake Young.
0:14.8	Welcome to the podcast, Jake.
0:16.4	Thank you so much.
0:17.9	Jake and I had been visiting for about an hour and a half before recording and
0:21.8	he's brought me tears a couple times as I've sensed his good soul, his love of the gospel,
0:27.7	his love of all of Heavenly Father's children, and the unique life mission he has. Jake offered
0:34.5	a prayer before we started and we just pray this podcast to be helpful to our listeners
0:38.6	to find common ground. By way of background, Jake grew up in Arizona, family of six children.
0:46.7	You're the second from the oldest. Served a mission in Edmonton, Canada. How long have you been home,
0:51.9	Jake? Just over a year. My parents were mission presence in Calgary when Edmonton and Calgary were part of the same
1:02.0	mission.
1:03.0	We'd go up to visit them, we'd look at the big mission map and there was this place way at the top of the map
1:09.0	called Yellowknife around Great Slave Lake. And I just
1:13.1	owes my life that place that's stuck in my brain as someplace that I like to go visit. Tell us
1:19.0	where you serve for six months. I served there in Yellowknife for six months. Tell us what
1:24.2	the church is like in Yellowknife. How many members? We have a very small branch. I would say
1:30.4	12 to 15 active members total. It includes kids and everything. And were you there? I'm a weather guy,
1:36.0	Jake. Were you there during the winter or the summer? I was there from June to December,
1:39.8	so I got both. I got the 24-hour sunlight and the 24-hour darkness. It was cold.
1:43.7	Cold did it get in December?
1:45.8	The coldest day I was there was negative 44 with wind chills in the negative 70s.
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