Episode 416: Connor Berg, RM, Age 22, Gay Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

My friend Connor Berg (grew up in South Weber, Served a mission in the Jacksonville Florida Mission, currently at Utah State) shares his journey. Connor talks about growing up and learning he is gay in a world that makes it difficult to be gay. That led to years of shame, self-harm and depression. Connor eventually came out to his family (very supportive) which led to a path of therapy, hope and healing. Connor talks about dating a boy during his senior year and then deciding to serve a mission. Connor talks about his mission and better learning how to receive personal revelation and bring others to Christ. Connor talks about returning from his mission and trying to navigate his future. He talks about dating men, feeling hope and peace, and now feeling open to remaining single or possibly marrying a woman. Connor helps us understand how to seek for personal revelation and honor other’s personal revelation. This is one of the best podcasts I’ve done on the power and importance of personal revelation and honoring each LGBTQ Latter-day Saint’s journey. If you are in a dark place as a LGBTQ Latter-day Saints (or really in any way), please listen to Connor. He will give you hope for your future and help you know of your Heavenly Parents love for you. Thank you Connor for being on the podcast. You are a great man with a wonderful future. ** Please Check Out My New Book At: ** 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 listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.0	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Connor Berg. Welcome to the podcast.
0:15.0	Thank you. I'm excited to be here.
0:17.0	But for any of you that haven't listened, the platform here is LGBTQ Latter-day Saints to share their story.
0:25.0	That's most of our podcasts.
0:27.1	I connected with this space, as many of you know, while serving as a singles ward bishop, I had priesthood responsibility for a couple gay men.
0:34.9	It was the first time I really let gay people tell me about being
0:38.6	gay, and it just significantly changed me. It opened my heart, kind of broke my heart,
0:43.9	and I felt impressed to step in this space with my release just to bring us together as the same
0:50.0	human family, and storytelling is what opened my heart and help me better understand. So this is a
0:55.8	platform where brave people come forward and share their stories. It's kind of the center of
0:59.9	vulnerability. As you know, we often do more stories than just LGBTQ, but that's kind of the
1:06.1	focus of our podcast. And that's where Connor is brave bravely I'm stepping forward to share his podcast or
1:13.1	his story so Connor I'll kind of turn it over to you why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself
1:18.4	to our listeners awesome my name is Connor Berg I am 22 years old and I grew up in a little town
1:24.4	in Davis County called South Weber I I'm the youngest of five kids,
1:28.4	and I have nine nieces and nephews that I love spending time with. I also really love to hike,
1:33.7	ski, cliff jump, wakeboard, and do pretty much anything else outside. I serve my mission in Jacksonville,
1:39.5	Florida, and I'm now at Utah State University studying human development and family science,
1:43.9	which I hope to use to become a marriage and family therapist.
1:47.7	And there we connected with Patrick Patterson.
1:51.2	Yes.
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