Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John D'Lin. It is May 30th

2022 we are recording here in the Mormon Stories studios in somewhere near Salt Lake City, Utah in holiday and

I am super excited for today's interview. I'm here with Jen. Hey Jen

Hi everybody. Thanks for joining us Jen. Of course

Why are we working on Memorial Day? Right? Because I'm an abusive boss

No

Just worked out that it worked out this year. There was consent. Yeah

Anyway, thanks for coming in on Memorial Day. You're welcome. We're obviously pre-recording today

So today's interview E is someone who I've been kind of following for I don't know four or five years

I don't know how long it's been but today we're interviewing my friend Rachel Wonderly. Hey Rachel. Hey everyone. How's it going?

Super happy to have you. I think we were talking before the show that I think my friend Liz Layton

Yeah, who I interviewed on Mormon Stories previously. She's a she was a jazz dancer and

She's done a lot of work on suicide

Prevention that it's it was a it was a powerful interview for me. Anyway, I think Liz made me aware of you years ago

Yeah, we've run we've crossed paths to some degree for a while, but it's nice to finally be here. Yeah

Yeah, chat. This is exciting. Yeah, so I always like to give kind of a preview of what we're gonna be talking about

So this is how I think about it. It's gonna be a traditional long-form

Mormon Stories interview of Rachel's faith journey. She was definitely raised Mormon

But we're gonna be talking about her

Leaving Mormonism and converting to I don't know if you call it non-denominational Christianity or evangelical Christianity

Both both work. Yep, and that was here in Utah

So leaving Mormonism to join non-denominational Christianity in Utah and

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