Episode 654: Kaleb Cox, SUU Student, RM, LGBTQ Ally

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

My friend Kaleb Cox joins us to share his journey to better understand and support our LGBTQ friends. Kaleb talks about how his Dad’s speech in June 2016 following the killing of 49 patrons at the Pulse club in Orlando (a gay nightclub) moved him to reconsider his assumptions about queer people (https://www.ksl.com/article/40209267/lt-gov-cox-speaks-at-vigil-for-orlando-my-heart-has-changed). Kaleb talks about his missing and serving in Tahiti (good experience) but then Covid hit in March 2020, and he had to leave and was eventually reassigned to Farmington, New Mexico. Kaleb talks about the culture of his mission that was difficult at times and didn’t reflect Jesus. Kaleb talks about how he navigated this, served, helped people along the way, and successfully completed his mission. I was deeply moved hearing more about Kaleb’s courage in the face of serious headwinds (Covid, difficult culture, etc) to serve because of his desire to help lift the hands of others. Kaleb then talks about his post-mission adjustment and then finding his home at SUU (Southern Utah University) where he is a psychology major and has many friends—including his queer friends. Kaleb talks about his love and support of his queer friends and “seeing life through their eyes”. I was deeply moved listening to Kaleb who represent the best of the future—people focused on helping others---especially those walking the most difficult roads. Thank you, Kaleb, for being on the podcast. You are a good man. Love and admire you and your wonderful family! Podcast Links: 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.
0:09.2	My guest on today's podcast is an SUU, that's Southern Utah University in Cedar City student who's a major in psychology, my friend Caleb Cox.
0:18.9	Welcome to the podcast.
0:20.2	Thank you.
0:20.6	Happy to be here.
0:21.5	How old are you, Caleb? I am 22 years old. You're 22. I got to know Caleb probably
0:26.7	well before his mission. He was on social media and I'm on social media and then I kind of followed
0:33.5	him on his mission. I think I got in his email distribution, had a terrific mission.
0:42.5	He's going to talk about that. He had a mission that happened during COVID, and he's going to talk about the multiple places he was assigned and served and just that journey. Then I had the chance
0:49.4	to go to Caleb's homecoming and heard his just terrific talk, Caleb is somebody that loves all of God's
0:56.1	children. And it is one of the very best examples of that in my life of somebody that really cares
1:02.8	about all of God's children. And so you'll hear some of that as he shares a story. Is that okay for
1:08.7	an introduction, Caleb? Yeah, absolutely. That works.
1:11.6	We said a prayer before we start, and we just hope this podcast is helpful for you. Those of you
1:16.3	that are navigating complicated missions, those of you that are looking to better support
1:20.8	LGBTQ people, those of you that are just trying to help everybody feel Christ's love and God's
1:27.3	love for them.
1:28.3	So with that, I'll turn it over to you, Caleb.
1:30.5	Yeah, thank you.
1:32.0	Yeah, so, I mean, you gave me a pretty good introduction.
1:35.1	Just, yeah, I, yeah, I'm currently down at SUU studying psychology.
1:41.1	Yeah, just, I don't know.
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