Hello and welcome to not so Molly Mormon podcast. I'm Katie. I'm your host today. Thanks for being here. I have an email from a

listener that she asked some questions about the Mormon church. And I'm sorry, I believe it's a she.

I'm sorry, I don't want to assume anyone's gender, so my apologies if that's incorrect.

I believe your name is pronounced Jarevet. Also sorry if I got that wrong. But this listener,

their first language is not English. So there might have been a little bit of

translation issues because English is the only thing I speak. I'm not bilingual, wish I was.

But I think we have some good stuff here to discuss. So I'm going to just jump right into it.

It starts out with, since I was a kid, I've been fascinated with learning about religions and cults.

Saying this, Mormons are on my top list of rare beliefs.

Three heavens?

The hat with the stone to translate gold stuff?

Really?

But it is fascinating, and I've listened to a couple of your

podcast episodes, and now I find it even more interesting. I have some questions. So here's the

first question. The church's new president had a widow and remarried. If the marriage in the

temple is for all eternity, what will happen in heaven with the first wife and the second?

Is there polygamy in heaven?

So, yes.

Yes, there is polygamy in heaven.

Mormon doctrine teaches that polygamy will happen in the afterlife.

It's sometimes referred to as the new and everlasting covenant in Mormon scriptures and like the book of Mormon doctrine and covenants rather, probably more like that.

Until the early 1900s, prominent Mormon leaders and faithful Mormon men practiced polygamy because it was supposedly

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