Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.

Before I introduce my guests, as I have been talking in the past, I invite you to,

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write a review. I encourage you to check

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My guest on today's podcast is my friend T.J. Thomas. Welcome to the podcast, T.J. Thank you very much. Happy to be here.

Before my guests come, I kind of introduced the podcast to them and I say this, TJ, this is like you and me going out to lunch

and you just telling me your story and me just listening. So that's kind of what we're inviting

you to do is just join us for lunch and it'll be a chance for TJ to share his story. We offered

a prayer. And my prayer before I, our prayer is that the things that TJ shares about his journey as an

LGBTQ Latter-day Saint will be helpful for you if you're an ally if you're a parent or

if you're LGBTQ as TJ is walking this road and sharing his the personal revelation he's

receiving and what he's learning about himself will be helpful for you.

And I'm grateful for TJ's courage to share his story.

I became aware of TJ in a larger way with a Facebook post he made on, well, I printed it out today. When was the day? Do you remember the day

of this Facebook post? February 21st. February 21st, 2021. 21st, 2021. If it's a public post, we'll link to

this in the podcast description so that you can read it for yourself, but it starts with I am bisexual

and just talks about his journey

as a bisexual Latter-day Saint. By way of background, T.J. is 29. He grew up in Vegas. He served a mission

in Benin West Africa. Not many people know of that mission. We had a young man in Aria that

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