1617: Growing Up in Polygamy - Sam & Melissa Zitting Wyson Part 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Summary
Join John and Jenn as they hear the unique Mormon Story of Sam and Melissa Zitting Wyson. Sam grew up in the FLDS church in Short Creek. After leaving the FLDS at age 18 he converted to the mainstream LDS church. He then met and fell in love with his beautiful wife, Melissa.
Listen in part two as Sam and Melissa begin to question doctrine of the LDS faith and their transition together out of the mainstream LDS church.
Listen in part two as Sam and Melissa begin to question doctrine of the LDS faith and their transition together out of the mainstream LDS church.
You can find them on their amazing YouTube channel Growing Up In Polygamy! https://www.youtube.com/c/GrowingUpinPolygamy
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am one of your two |
| 0:05.9 | co-hosts for today, John Delin. It is June 20th, 2022 and I'm here in studio with Jen Camp. Hey Jen. |
| 0:14.4 | Hi everybody. Thanks for joining us. Of course. Yeah, it's good to have you Jen. Thanks. |
| 0:19.3 | And we are here for what I think is going to be one of the most important interviews of the year |
| 0:26.0 | and maybe it'll go down as one of the most important interviews that I do. We are here today to |
| 0:33.6 | interview Melissa and Sam. This is Sam Zitting Weissen and Melissa Zitting Weissen who went by Melissa, |
| 0:45.5 | I guess, Cowell's before you married Sam. Is that right? Yes. And they are the co-hosts of a really |
| 0:53.2 | exciting and up-and-coming YouTube channel called Growing Up Polygamy which has at least 20,000 |
| 0:58.1 | subscribers. And my personal inbox has been inundated over the past month or two with requests to |
| 1:04.9 | interview them because they have such a devoted loyal following who wants to hear their full story |
| 1:10.9 | from start to finish. And with the not just the under the banner of heaven series that came out on Hulu, |
| 1:18.8 | but recently a new series has come out on Netflix called Keep Sweet Prey and Obey. I think it's |
| 1:26.4 | called, which is talking about the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Letters Saints or the |
| 1:31.8 | FLDS Church that is still, I guess, currently led by Warren Jeffs. It's an offshoot of the |
| 1:38.1 | most well-known LDS Church that up until recently was primarily located in Colorado City or |
| 1:45.2 | Short Creek, which is either in Southern Utah or Northern Arizona or somewhere in Colorado. I |
| 1:50.3 | forget exactly what the what the borders are of that of that group. And of course at some point |
| 1:56.4 | they moved to El Dorado and of course at some point Warren Jeffs was put in jail for I guess it |
| 2:02.3 | was an accomplice to rape of a minor. But we're going to get into all that. But this Netflix series, |
| 2:10.3 | both Harado, my my colleague got into it and and then Jen Camp also really got into it. Jen |
| 2:17.5 | cares a lot about this issue. It's personal to her as well. And both Harado and Jen are like, |
| 2:23.1 | John, we really need to cover fundamentalist polygamy more on Mormon stories. I'll I'll just say we |
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