Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.

As we're starting 2024, I wanted to do a solo podcast and update you on a few topics.

First thing I'd like to mention is this podcast will talk about suicide, the suicide of a trans latter-day saint.

So a trigger warning, that will come towards the end of the podcast, and I'll give you another heads-up about that section of the podcast.

But this podcast does talk about suicide.

If you're thinking about suicide, have a plan.

Please call text or chat 988. Strong people get help.

This podcast will focus on the direction of the podcast for 2024. We're going to do less episodes and I'll talk about why. I will give a personal update, just sort of my personal journey.

I'll give some of my latest thoughts about LGBTQ people.

That's based on Jacob 5, the Allegory of the Olive Tree in the Vineyard.

And then I'll conclude with some concluding thoughts, including my testimony of why I stay in a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I said a prayer before we started, and I hope this podcast is helpful for you.

I've spent probably a month kind of put organizing my thoughts,

so I could share this in a coherent, co-threatful way.

We have, as you know, have done over 700 episodes since we started in 2018, and we've had over 7.5 million downloads.

The core of the podcasts are LGBT-focused, but we've covered a variety of topics.

You can find all our podcast index at listen, learn, and love.org.

This is a self-funded labor of love.

My podcast guests are the heroes of the podcast.

They bravely reach out and share their stories so that we can improve as Latter-day Saints.

My emotional guest tank to be present for all my podcast guests and all the people that

reach out to me needing a safe person to talk about the realities that are lives, and I hope

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