Hi, welcome to Not So Mollie Mormon podcast. This is Katie. Thank you for being here with me.

I have another email for you, as usual, but I also

just wanted to take a second to tell you guys how grateful I am for all of you, and I

know Sarah agrees. This past, let's see, I guess by the time this airs, it will have

been two weekends ago that general

conference happened and I don't know about for you guys but for me it's pretty triggering um

because I still have many friends and family members who are believers and they'll share things about it on social media and it's hard for me

to avoid it and um i just am very grateful for this group for you that listen and for you that

write to us and interact with us it really gives that sense of relief that I need,

that I feel like I'm not going crazy.

You know, so just a big shout out and a big thank you.

You all are so great.

So today's letter comes from Nate from Utah, and it's a really interesting, different

type of letter than any we've ever gotten.

So I'll just get into it.

I just thought I'd write in my story, I thought you might find it interesting.

I didn't grow up LDS, but living in Utah, I obviously knew about it.

All my friends extended family and neighbors have always been members. My parents were members when

they got married. They even got sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. They decided to stop going for reasons

I'm not aware of before I was old enough to remember anything.

I wasn't raised Mormon and I never really had an interest.

My parents never talked down about the church so I never had a harsh feeling towards it either.

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