Why do you stay in the Church?

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Charlie and Ben talk about why they decide to move forward in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Ben Shalati. And I'm Charlie Bird.
0:10.0	Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked as LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
0:15.0	We're not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.
0:18.6	Today's question is, why do you stay in the church?
0:21.2	Ben and I are not terribly diverse and we share many
0:23.4	opinions and life experiences. For example we have both been in Elders Quorn
0:27.2	Presidencies. However there are some pretty big differences for example I've been
0:30.8	in five Elders corn Presidencies since Charlie's only been in one.
0:33.6	Have you ever been the president?
0:35.0	Yes.
0:35.4	EQP.
0:36.2	I wasn't EQP.
0:37.2	Wow.
0:38.2	And my, the singles ward in Everett, where I'm from, when I was like 24.
0:41.6	Nice. I'm always like... I actually get this. I became elders core president was like 24 nice I'm always like I'm always like I
0:43.3	gave eligible president like a month later I left to Europe for a month that was
0:47.7	terrible oh I don't think anyone cares they probably rejoiced I bet you were a real
0:52.1	self-righteous elderserskorn President.
0:53.8	Oh at 24? Definitely. Yeah. I was always like F-H-H-E dad. Oh really?
0:58.9	That's like my nightmare calling. Oh really? I just, one time we made butter.
1:03.0	I just like bought some heavy whipping cream and I made people shake in a jar in that I had butter for the week.
1:08.6	Well the problem is the FHD dad is you have to come with something fun for a diverse group of people every week and that just seems daunting.
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