Hello and welcome to not Somali Mormon podcast minisodes.

This is Katie. Thanks for being here. So today's email comes from Avery.

Hi Avery.

Avery gave permission to use their name.

And I like what Avery said.

Because it's spelled A-V-E-R-I.

And then, right, they wrote, pronounced like Avery with a Y.

But I was born in Utah in the 90s, so, and then like an eye roll emoji.

Same.

I mean, I was born a couple years before the 90s, but lived there.

I saw all the different kinds of spellings.

My name is spelled differently.

F.L.

All right.

Here we go.

Hi there. I just recently discovered your podcast and listening to the episode about racism at BYU, I wanted to share a couple of experiences that were

disturbing to me during my time there. The first was in a singles ward Sunday school class

being taught by a fellow student in the basement of the

BYU Humanities building. We were studying the book of Mormon, and that lesson was on the symbolism

within a dream from one of the books of Nephi, I believe. And then in parentheses they write,

I've flushed most of my knowledge of the book of Mormon at this point and threw away my

scriptures, so I don't want to bother trying to find the scripture reference. No worries. The teacher was

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