Sisters Convert, Then Leave Mormonism After Missions | Ep. 1953
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 179 minutes
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Summary
Join Gerardo and Hayley Rawle (from the Girl's Camp podcast) as they dive into the journey of sisters Lexi and Sydney, who both joined the Mormon church in their pre-teens in Ohio. Sydney, an LGBTQ+ ally, shares her mission experience in Bolivia and her challenges with dating in the Young Single Adult Ward. After questioning her faith during the pandemic, she found herself grappling with her advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights. Meanwhile, Lexi discusses her mission in California, where she faced mental health struggles, including undiagnosed bipolar disorder and a companion with alarming ideations. Discover how a priesthood blessing empowered her to step away from the church. Don’t miss this insightful discussion on faith, identity, and personal growth!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:05.0 | Haley Rawl. I am guest hosting today on Mormon Stories and I am happy and |
| 0:09.9 | honored to be here as always. I am joined by the wonderful Harardo who will be |
| 0:14.7 | co-hosting today. Hey everybody. And we have two wonderful guests, Lexi and |
| 0:19.7 | Sydney. Hello. A set of sisters that we're interviewing today. |
| 0:24.0 | How are you both doing? |
| 0:26.0 | Feeling excited? |
| 0:27.0 | I'm pretty excited, yeah. |
| 0:29.0 | Nervous? |
| 0:30.0 | Any nerves? |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, a little nervous. |
| 0:32.0 | It's a big deal, right? It's a big deal, right? |
| 0:34.0 | It's a big story to tell, but I'm so excited to get into your journeys with Mormonism. |
| 0:40.0 | We're going to kind of be talking about obviously both of your stories and kind of where they intertwine and how you two kind of informed each other's stories and I can't wait to get into it all. |
| 0:51.0 | Before we get started, I want to ask what your intention is in coming |
| 0:56.3 | on Mormon stories. Why are you hoping to share your Mormon story today? |
| 1:01.0 | Whoever wants to start? I feel like, so, and my deconstructing journey and like leaving the church, I used Mormon stories as like a tool to help me to make sense of like what I believe and what I believe and what I had experienced |
| 1:22.0 | and then I also like live outside of like Mormon concentrated areas so like I live in Ohio and when I share my background of like |
| 1:39.2 | having left a high-demand religion although most of the people I talked to have never been Mormon and aren't |
| 1:45.5 | super familiar with our faith, a lot of people have like discomfort around their religious experiences |
| 1:57.7 | regardless of like how deeply they were raised religiously or whatever. I feel like just kind of in the United States especially like a lot of people have kind of discomfort around that so |
| 2:11.3 | Yeah, so sharing my story is hopefully going to be helpful to other people to kind of |
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