Episode 59 - Williamson Sintyl - Survivor, Leader, Latter Day Saint

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When Williamson Sintyl was just sixteen years old, a massive earthquake hit his home island of Haiti. Williamson was trapped in a collapsed building for twenty seven hours before being rescued. He soon after found the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and became a member. He has since served a mission, moved to the United States and started a family. He founded the Arise Project For Humanity to help Haitians have a brighter future. Williamson is one of the most exceptional people you will ever have the privilege to hear. His is a life changing story.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
0:10.6	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:23.2	Hello, friends. Welcome to another episode of the Latter Day Lives podcast. My name is Sean Rappier.
0:28.9	I am your host and so glad that you have decided to join us again this week. Once again,
0:34.2	we are doing video and we will be putting this up on YouTube, as well as on our
0:38.8	Facebook page.
0:39.9	And what an incredible show we have for you this week.
0:43.0	Before we jump into our guest, I have kind of a cool announcement, a new project that
0:47.9	we're working on this Thursday night from the time of the airing of this episode.
0:53.9	It'll be Thursday, September 6th at 7 o'clock
0:57.1	p.m. If you remember my former guest's comedian Michael Berkland, who is just one of the funniest
1:02.7	guys ever, and then former guest Stephen Jones, who of course is on random acts and is a comedian
1:09.2	himself. And Ken Craig, the improv actor comedian we
1:12.9	also had on. The four of us are starting a new Facebook live show. This week, it'll be a
1:19.8	rotating number of guests. We'll have a bunch of different comedians coming in and out each week.
1:24.9	It's called Linger Longer Live. And it's going to be this Thursday night
1:29.3	at 7 p.m. Mountain Time. That's 7 p.m. Utah time. And basically it'll be Facebook live.
1:35.6	You can put in your questions. But each time we do an episode, we're not sure how often we'll do them.
1:41.4	But basically we want to get four Latter-day Saint comedians or actors together
1:46.3	to talk about cultural topics. So this week will be our first one. We're going to talk about
1:51.9	what it means to be a member of the church, and hopefully it'll be fun and entertaining.
1:55.8	Please join us. You can check us out on Facebook at Linger Longer Live.
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