1618: Growing Up in Polygamy - Sam and Melissa Zitting Wyson Part 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 223 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 back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | I am your host John D'Lin. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm here with Jen Camp, hey Jen. |
| 0:08.5 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:10.2 | It's June 20th, 2022 and we're here for part two of what I think is a super interesting |
| 0:18.0 | epic interview with Sam Zitting Weissen and Melissa Zitting Weissen but also Melissa Cowell's |
| 0:26.5 | which is what's her main name growing up. |
| 0:28.8 | They are the co-hosts of a really cool YouTube channel called Growing Up in Plegamy. |
| 0:35.5 | Did I get that right? |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.5 | Thanks for having us. |
| 0:38.5 | And we just spent three hours speaking with Sam and Melissa about Sam's upbringing in |
| 0:44.2 | the fundamentalist church of Jesus Christ of the Letteries Saints or the FLDS church in |
| 0:48.6 | Colorado City, Slash, Hilldale, Short Creek. |
| 0:52.0 | He can call lots of things down in Southern Utah, Northern Arizona, like I don't even |
| 0:56.7 | know. |
| 0:57.7 | Yes, a Northern Arizona Southern Utah right on the border actually. |
| 1:01.3 | And fascinating first three hours, if you haven't watched that, pause it, go back and |
| 1:06.9 | listen, you'll get a lot of history about the LDS church, the FLDS church, and about Colorado |
| 1:12.9 | City and Hilldale. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm going to get all these names wrong. |
| 1:17.2 | Short Creek. |
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