Hello everyone and welcome to the Girls Camp podcast Patreon, Girls Camp After Dark.

Tisai, your host, Haley Rawl, and I have been looking forward to recording this episode all day.

What I did is I went back into the Girls Camp archives, and I gathered some of the best of the best of unread submissions from the whole two years

of girls camp so far. The amount of stories I am sitting on that really showcase the worst

of Mormon culture, Mormon doctrine, people within Mormonism is kind of crazy. Church headquarters should be

sore afraid of the girls camp Google Drive. I will tell you that much. And I want to utilize these

more, which is why I thought of this archive idea. And we are covering some really good topics,

patriarchal blessings, dating stories,

EFY stories, sacrament meeting stories, and bishop stories. This was the week that I announced

the podcast shift of Girls Camp, Maine, and, you know, I'm now no longer focusing as much on Mormonism on the main feed

and that shift has actually given me so much more excitement and vigor to do Mormon content

here on the patreon i just think that patreon is the place to do it because it's community-based, because

it's a safer space to share these types of things without fear of being gaslit by the whole

internet. I just feel so much more clear about what this Patreon is about. And for now at least,

it's about our shared niche interest in Mormonism, whether it's because

we came from that and we left it or if you're a never Mormon here just because you find it

fascinating. It's just getting to really lean into the Mormon stuff. Okay, we have so much to cover,

so many stories. So let's do it. The first submission reads,

my college roommates' patriarchal blessing literally said that she would be poor her whole life and

quote, always be wanting. I would just love to get inside the psychology of a Mormon patriarch.

I feel like most of them take this approach of

what is the most generic thing I could say to someone? The things that kind of like a horoscope,

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