Episode 865: Eliza Riggs, RM, Bi-Sexual Latter-day Saint, Non-Traumatic Queer Faith, Powerful Story

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

My friend Eliza Riggs (age 22, RM/Orem Utah, UVU Student) joins us to share her story including: Great Parents, Queer Friendly Home Came out first to her Heavenly Parents—positive experience Felt lots of pressure to fit in the Church as a Bishop’s daughter, wasn’t working, difficult chapter Joined girl’s high school wrestling team—“saved my life” Youth conference and surprising thought to serve a mission Mom buying her rainbow sheets before coming out to her Being called to Orem, Utah (initial disappointment—but then powerful revelation) Great experience coming out to her Mission President Coming out to her parents—super positive Her queer identity is celebrated in heaven Thank you, Eliza, for your courage to share your story which will help so many. You are awesome. Honored to have you on the podcast. Encourage everyone to listen to and share this episode. Links: Eliza’s Instagram: @elizariggs31

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:08.9	Our guest on today's podcast, joining me from Orem, Utah, where she is a UVU student, is my friend
0:16.3	Eliza Riggs. Welcome to the podcast, Eliza.
0:19.9	Thank you.
0:22.2	Such an honor to be here.
0:24.0	It's great to have you here.
0:28.1	Let me introduce Eliza to you a little bit, and then she'll share her story. She, as I mentioned, is a UVU student.
0:31.3	That's Utah Valley University and Utah County, Utah.
0:35.3	She's a psychology and family science focused student.
0:41.8	She'd love to get a master's in social work.
0:45.2	That may lead to becoming a therapist
0:47.0	or other bigger kind of social work macro issues
0:51.6	that she'd love to sink her teeth in and make the world a better place.
0:55.2	She grew up near Columbus, Ohio. She served a mission in Orham, Utah. She's been home a year
1:01.7	and living in Orham, Utah. That could be a whole other podcast to be going to school in your
1:08.0	mission boundaries. Totally. She reached out to me on Instagram a while ago, and I'm really good about checking my Instagram
1:16.4	message.
1:17.1	Hers was in my spam folder, and I checked my spam folder.
1:19.8	And at first, I didn't think it was a real message.
1:21.9	Then I gratefully looked at it a little closer and realized this is a real person with a
1:27.0	real message. And I'm so glad I just went a little slow and realized this is a real person with a real message.
1:28.0	And I'm so glad I just went a little slow and didn't delete your message.
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