Merging Mexican Tradition with the Restored Gospel

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this month’s episode of OUT and About, Iese Wilson sits down with Liv Mendoza Haynes, a queer, Mexican Latter-Day Saint. Liv shares how her unique intersection of identities shapes her spiritual journey. Liv reflects on joining the Church and serving a full-time mission in Mexico—and the complex emotions of teaching people from her own cultural background. Blessed to be in a mixed-orientation marriage full of mutual love and respect, she reminds our listeners: each and every one of you de...

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Out in the Open. We are so glad you're here. We have a special episode. It's one of our
0:04.0	out and about series with Yese Wilson, where he takes us on a tour of the LGBTQ Plus experience
0:10.8	globally through the church. And this week, he interviewed Liv Mendoza Haynes. Her name is actually
0:15.7	Leverier Mendoza. No, Jessica Leverr Mendoza de la Vega-Haines. It's like Esteban, Hurno, Ricardo.
0:23.0	Exactly.
0:23.5	So we're going to Mexico.
0:24.7	And this is a really special episode because Liv talks about how she was raised Catholic,
0:28.9	joins the church, and then the word I would say describes this episode is merge.
0:33.2	And how she merged her past with her present, like merges her faith and like her identity as a Mexican
0:39.4	and also a Mexican who lives in the States and married to an American man.
0:43.4	It's a beautiful episode and I think you'll earn time.
0:45.7	That is the word merge.
0:46.9	I love that.
0:47.6	And we hope you like merging with her story.
0:50.7	Did you see how I did that?
0:51.5	I did.
0:53.7	I did.
1:09.3	Welcome everybody to Out and About. I'm your host, Yassie Wilson. And as you can tell,
1:12.5	I'm in really bright moods. I've just been laughing and just having some of the deepest conversations already with our guests before we even
1:16.9	gotten on air. Today, we are traveling to Mexico once again, but this time to hear a perspective
1:25.7	of a queer woman.
1:29.2	It's one of those perspectives that, like, I feel we don't hear enough of queer women in the first place,
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