Episode 613: Jacob Guy, Age 22, Gay Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

My friend Jacob Guy, (RM, FSY Counselor, Weber State Student) joins us to share his story. Jacob talks about his spiritual journey and temple attendance to come out to himself and others about 18 months ago. That included breaking off a serious relationship with a woman. Jacob shares a powerful visual analogy of being locked out of the house of happy married straight people and not having a key to open the door—one of the most powerful examples I’ve heard. Jacob talks about his rock-solid relationship with Jesus and how He is helping him find hope and peace concurrently with the unknowns of his future. Jacob reads from his from his scriptures to share some of his favorite stories of Jesus and the principles Jesus teaching that apply to all of our lives. I was deeply moved hearing Jacob’s courageous, no-shame, spiritually mature story—including deep peace and acceptance of his sexual orientation. If you are in the process of coming out (even to yourself), Jacob’s story will help you. If you are out, I believe Jacob’s story will help you. And if you are looking to better understand and support LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, Jacob’s story will help you. Thank you for being on the podcast Jacob. You are a good man. Links mentioned in the podcast: Ministering to LGBTQ Latter-day Saints Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433556613672143 Richard Ostler Book: Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints: 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.
0:10.8	My guest on today's podcast, we really get right to the stories of our guests.
0:15.7	In my home is my friend Jacob Guy. Welcome to the podcast, Jacob.
0:19.9	Hello, thank you so much, Richard. I'm so excited to be here.
0:22.6	I've sure enjoyed visiting with Jacob before we started to record and just excited to have him share his story.
0:30.6	He's going to share his story as a gay Latter-day Saint. And just a little background on Jacob, he is 22 years old.
0:36.6	He's returned missionary from Mexico. Yeah,
0:39.8	Hermesio, Mexico. And that is northern Mexico, right on the board of the United States.
0:44.3	Yep, northern Mexico. Um, Jacob went to a year of BYU. He's now at Weber State. He's kind of
0:50.6	deciding exactly what his career would be, which would be a normal thing for somebody
0:54.3	his age. He's an FSY counselor. I think you all know that used to be EFY and it's FSI. He's been
1:01.8	doing that for the last couple of years and we'll do it this summer also. I became aware of Jacob
1:07.5	because of a post he made in our Facebook group. We have a Facebook group called
1:11.8	ministering to LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. It's a Facebook group not organized around orientation,
1:18.0	but organized around purpose and the purposes ministering to LGBT, Latter-day Saints,
1:23.9	in our local area of influence, like a ward or a stake or a mission or a seminary.
1:29.7	And there's allies and LGBT people there.
1:32.5	And Jacob made a terrific post about being locked out of the house.
1:36.4	And he's going to talk about that visual imagery that I thought was really powerful.
1:42.4	And so that's how I became connected with Jacob.
1:44.6	And I messaged and said, would you share your story as well as that?
1:48.2	I'm part of your story for our listeners.
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