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Hi everyone, it's Heidi again.

Today we are finally reacting to the South Park episode all about Mormons.

A lot of you have recommended this to me.

Hey baby, just went down for a nap.

I'm hopeful that we have enough time.

I just bought it for $2.99 on YouTube.

Even though I know you can go to a different website, but I don't remember what it is and I just feel better about this one.

I've watched a little bit of South Park.

And honestly, I'm really impressed with how many different topics this show is about.

I also came across just recently the cast of South Park.

I was impressed that under cast and actors, it was two dudes.

Wild.

Just so cool.

But anyway, if you like the video, make sure to like and subscribe.

Become a member if you want me to prioritize your comments or just support the channel.

Ow!

And let's do this.

I remember seeing this little disclaimer the last time I watched, I was going to say Lincoln Park, South Park.

And I just think it's so funny.

Of course, language and due to its content should not be viewed by anyone.

That's great.

I love these kind of shows.

Anyway, thank you.

He's already looking super nice and clean cut.

Stop, Scott.

Mormons are so nice.

Hey, my name's Gary.

All right, I'm gonna go kick his ass.

Yeah, go Stan, go Stan.

I love it.

There definitely is a thing about Mormons are so happy.

They're always smiling.

I love that they're like, ew, he's smiling.

Why is he so happy?

Get rid of that smile.

I just, that's so funny to me.

There's a song.

I actually have been thinking about this song in the last week

or so that you learn in little primaries at church

when you're a little kid and it's uh

if you chance to meet a frown do not let it stay quickly turn it upside down

and smile at that frown away no one likes a frowny face change it for a smile

and then it goes make the world a better place

and by smiling all the while anyway

that we sang a lot obviously we sang it a lot

because i still have the whole thing memorized and on one hand i think it's it's cool like yeah

try and be happy

but at the same time i think it's also important to feel your feelings

and be sad when when appropriate otherwise you're just holding things in

and i actually had some i think i've mentioned this in another video especially

when i was on my mission i had an issue where i would feel guilty

if i didn't feel happy or grateful to be there

because i was representing jesus christ and the church and everything

and so i felt like i was putting the church down or

misrepresenting if I wasn't just happy all the time in front of people at least

and that's not healthy it's really not healthy anyway kind of

interesting it's really tough being in a totally new place

but I think all you guys are really cool so I understand if there's initiation rights

dude stop it stop it stop being so nice

dude stop it do what you gotta do you can't hate him you know going over to his house for dinner Yes.

Yes.

What kind of family has a kid like that?

Okay, my turn.

Ooh, five.

One, two, three, four, five.

Living.

So many kids.

Well, it's great you could join us for family home evening, Stan.

What's that?

That's when we don't allow any TV and just entertain each other with music and stories.

They all play instruments.

Of course they do.

a family is the best

if you ever have to face a challenge baby sorry this is

so funny because it is so true mormon families are very very nice like

when you meet those very very their family has been in the church for generations

and that's all they've known their whole lives

and yes you get this exactly they all play instruments i

don't know why in the church i mean you have a

of opportunity to at least play the piano every song is

accompanied by a piano i don't know for some reason kids

are just into musical instruments the parents are very into that

and why why is that maybe it's just the culture that's

so spot on i mean being able to play a musical instrument is really cool it's very beautiful

so nothing against that but i just this is

so funny man alive

and my family we used to play life fairly often we would play um sorry a lot

that was a good time board games was the thing

and then family home evening every monday evening it's encouraged to

have a family home evening where you spend time with your family you do an activity have a treat or something

and then you do like a little lesson like teach your kids something about the gospel i'm trying to remember

but i'm sure

that leaders encourage people to invite outsiders people from outside the church to attend your family home evening

so that they could feel the spirit in your home

and with your family and stuff like that so that is just

so funny so very true i'm getting a kick out of this

if you couldn't tell now how about we do some scripture

readings from the book of mormon joseph smith lived in a

little american town in the early 1800s i'm gonna try

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and not get triggered suddenly god

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and jesus appeared before me you see you believe it now i mean that's what we learned Why would he make that?

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Many people believe Joseph dum dum dum dum dum A Native American?

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But your skin is white!

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Yes, long ago all Native Americans were white.

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We all came to America from Jerusalem.

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I actually don't know if the belief was that all Native Americans were white, but that is kind of funny.

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Also buried with the book are two seer stones, the Urm and Thummim, which will allow you to translate the writings.

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It's very educational.

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Find it and fulfill your destiny.

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That's all true.

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Is that true?

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Kris Krispies!

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Krispies!

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Krispies!

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Krispies!

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Krispies!

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Krispies!

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Hey gang, let's wrap some more of them up in plastic wrap

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and hand them out to the poor service is also a really really big thing in the church

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which is very cool

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um it's definitely very very service oriented so wrapping up treats

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and you know giving them to the poor or to the neighbors

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or something it's very very very common i guess not common

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but like it's not far off man just the research

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that they put into this like who did they talk to about this

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or did they know mormons i'm just i'm so curious it's so funny mr harrison is a white guy right yeah

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he's gonna end up liking them i 100 guarantee it

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but um i do think that there's a big difference between telling people what you believe

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and then being like you need to follow the plan

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or you know you should go to church too

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or whatever sure tell me about your religious beliefs you know let me know what your thing is about

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but don't try and push that on me

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or make me feel pressured to join you if that makes sense

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but that is definitely something

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that leaders of the mormon church encourage all members to do

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is you know every member of missionary was one of the slogans i guess

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that they used when i was still a member

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that there are always opportunities to share the gospel with others with your neighbors

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and stuff like that

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and oh first of all it makes mormons feel very very

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awkward about it at least that's how i felt um it's not natural to do

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that people have to really push themselves to share the gospel

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with your next door neighbor outside of like a church setting

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or invite them like to church activities or to church

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or things like that where you never would have invited them before

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and some people are like no i'm happy to invite people i'm happy to share the gospel

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but it's just it's not normal it's not natural and

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if you you can feel it i feel a little bit

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bad i think it makes people's relationships with others a little bit strange sometimes

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when it could have just been chill

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but anyway um we're gonna continue now you can call me

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randy randy the last thing we want people to think we're

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pushing our religion we know there are a lot of beliefs out there

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and ours just works for us to each his own right yeah some mormons are like

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that some of them are all about you know sharing the gospel with others

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and then some of them are just like no i don't know

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but you're supposed to share the gospel with others

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so i don't know it's a tough thing some mormons are very very chill though it's hard to know

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which ones are which it's hard to know

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which mormons want to be your friend just

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because they want to be your friend and

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which mormons want to be your friend in hopes

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that you will come back to church a little bit tricky

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there i found them found what another new testament of jesus christ i do think

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that they tried to keep it pretty secret i think

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that he just shared it with people close to him

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but then the word got out i don't think he like shouted in the streets i found gold plates

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or whatever what ended up happening is

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that like the whole town found out about it even though

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nobody else ever saw them dum dum dum dum dum oh that's

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so funny oh the song that's awesome it is interesting

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because i was talking to a family member the other day like maybe a week ago actually

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and they were saying that there are records

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or whatever of joseph smith's wife emma the plates were always under a cloth

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or something like that and she writes down that she felt them

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and it felt like gold plates you know and so

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that is one of the things that like strengthened their testimony

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that the plates actually did exist and

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that they were real along with like Emma saying oh Joseph

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Smith wasn't smart enough to translate the plates he could barely read

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which I'm just like who knows but it is interesting

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that Mormons base their beliefs and their testimony on these kind of

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records

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and people just saying things it's very very common instead of

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finding their own proof well i mean then there is oh gosh then there is like praying about it

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and feeling it in your heart and that's supposed to be your proof

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and your evidence i don't really buy into that anymore

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because i feel like human beings can make themselves feel almost anything

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if they try hard enough but very very very interesting to talk to them about

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that he comes home with a That's funny.

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I'm a lion.

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I'm an alien.

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Hey, just what the heck am I supposed to be?

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My God.

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You gonna come with us to the fire station, Stan?

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Uh, no, I've got a lot to do.

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Well, Gary, you wanna just hang out with your friend, Stan?

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My God.

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That got me, oh my gosh.

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That is so funny.

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I do think it's cool when family prioritizes each other, if that makes sense.

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I think that's really, really neat.

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Sometimes it can be a lot.

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I just had to breathe for a second.

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My god, that was so good.

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The timing on that.

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Anyway, okay.

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And then he translated what was written on the plates into the Book of Mormon.

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Yeah, but how?

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I wonder if they're going to have the hat.

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I'm just curious.

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Also, I noticed, I just noticed that...

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What's the Mormon kid's name?

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Sam?

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Oh, god.

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sorry he's blonde there is definitely a big thing about like mormons from utah being blonde

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and it's funny because

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so i uh lived the first nine years of my life right in california

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and then my family moved to utah

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and it was crazy seeing how many people were blonde and

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if people were not blonde they had blonde highlights

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or they dyed their hair blonde it was so different from where we came from It was like a culture shock.

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So I just think that's funny though, like clean cut blonde people coming from Utah is pretty accurate too.

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In America, really?

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That sounds kind of dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

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It's true.

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And I'm going to translate the plates and publish it into a book for the whole world to read.

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Now, I know you have a lot of money, Sears, and I'm just gonna need a little bit to pay for the publishing costs.

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I don't know...

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How do you expect to translate it?

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He did borrow a lot of money.

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That's true. With... With... With...

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Oh, I'm seeing the light!

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Oh, okay, write this down.

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and that's how the book of mormon was written dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum

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oh my god okay there was

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so much to unpack there oh my god i love the

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way they depicted him just looking into the hat it just looked

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so ridiculous um it is interesting

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because general teachings in the church don't talk about the hat at least they used to not i don't know

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if it's mentioned more often now

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but i actually didn't learn about the hat until i was in college i went to a mormon college

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and so i was in some kind of class

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and they were talking about it and i just i had no idea

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because all of the pictures everything

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that they talk about is just kind of them sitting across a table

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and he's just reading them straight up um probably

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because this would look a little bit dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb the way

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that they're using the song with that is

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so funny oh my gosh okay so

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that wasn't the witness thing um i do believe

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that there was some point

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and maybe they'll talk about it where he had people actually look at the gold plates

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and like write their signature saying that they have seen the gold plates um

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so that was something else

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but yes he would have somebody write down what he was reading

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and that's how it was written down for for the book of mormon oh my gosh

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that is so funny ah this is very interesting it's funny

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but at the same time it's like a little bit triggering

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it's like bringing back all these memories you know i think

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that everybody who leaves the church uh deals with that something

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that i was thinking about because i wonder

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if i'll get any of those comments that say uh they leave the church but they can't leave the church alone.

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That is a very, very common saying for members of the church to say about ex-Mormons who talk about their experience

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and talk about the church and challenge the church, right?

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And the way I see it is that we've been very affected by the church emotionally, like mentally, self-esteem wise.

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It's taken a lot of our time.

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And so it's, I think, fair to talk about it and especially

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if we feel like somebody else might get hurt

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or wronged i guess at least in our opinion it's worth it to talk about it makes sense

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that people who are very invested in religion want to talk

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about it they want to see it help other people same

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with people who are outside of religion they want to talk about it in hopes

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that it will help somebody i guess

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but i just think it's kind of interesting i just like

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sharing my story i'm not trying to attack the church or anything like that.

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It's just interesting seeing, um, sorry, Hail Baby just sat up with a blanket over her head.

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She's back down now.

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What was I saying?

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I'm not trying to attack the church.

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I just like talking about my experience.

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I think it's very interesting.

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And so here we are.

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Continuing.

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They bring Jell-O.

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They bring Jell-O.

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It's so nice to meet you.

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Sorry, I don't know what else she was holding, but jello is a very very mormon thing apparently i didn't know for a long time

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but especially green jello and then you put things in the jello it depends on the family

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but yeah that is that's so funny very at least utah mormon i don't know

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if it's if it's outside of it but the little details

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that they're putting in here is cracking me up how do you know he isn't just making stuff up

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and pretending he's translating off golden plates

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smart sports sports why would he make it up oh gosh and that's how it happened yeah right

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sorry the whole family's like what

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and then this guy yeah oh no oh my gosh

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that is so funny okay

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so the dumb dumb dumb versus smarts not smart thing it's actually reminding me of something

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that another family member told me about i won't be specific

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again this is a different family member by the way they said

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that one of my aunts left the church at one point

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this was probably before i was even born my family member was talking to a church leader

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and the church leader said she's smart she'll she'll come back to the church that's really stuck with me because now

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that i am no longer a member i think oh that's

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what certain members of the church are saying about people who

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have left the church i just feel like i would be infuriated if i heard that somebody was saying that about me.

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Oh, you know, Heidi's smart.

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She'll come back to the church.

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So on one hand, I'm like, oh, this is really harsh.

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Like, people in the church aren't dumb.

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But at the same time, it's like, if they're going to be saying the same thing about other people, I don't know.

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But yeah, I think about that pretty often now.

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Strange, you know?

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Yeah, it's great you have your own beliefs.

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Yeah, right.

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Oh, stop it.

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That's another thing.

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Why do you have to be so freaking nice all the time?

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It isn't normal.

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You just weasel people into your way of thinking by acting like the happiest family in the world

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and being so nice to everyone

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that you just blindside dumb people like my dad yeah yeah they don't mean to

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but that that is very very interesting

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that whole thing okay dumb people that's you know you could say

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that i don't i don't know about that but one of the things

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that the church and people in the church especially like missionaries

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and things like that really target and i think

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that i've talked about this in one of my other videos

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but i'm not sure

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which one are people who are grieving people who have had

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a hard life people who are going through something really difficult

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people who are depressed people who feel like they're missing something in their lives

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and the church comes along and fills that hole or that gap with a lot of hope and a lot of,

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oh, you'll be with your family forever and you can have peace through Christ and all of this stuff.

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And so people who feel the community, who feel like somebody cares about them, whether it's God or the people in the church,

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it can feel heaven sent.

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And so that's how I've seen it.

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People in the church who are so happy show people, oh, if you're in the church, you can be happy like me because you are feeling miserable.

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You need this.

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And I think that's very, very common.

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I know that that was when I felt like my testimony grew

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or I got closer to the church and my beliefs got stronger was

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when I was feeling awful about myself as a teenager

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or I was going through something hard with a friend or somebody like my grandpa died or something like that.

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I would feel that the church would help me and it would make me feel like it was more and more true.

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Very interesting.

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And that is also one of the reasons why I would feel

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so guilty when I wasn't feeling happy because I knew

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that people wouldn't be drawn to me and to the church as much if I was sad or not, or I didn't have a smile on my face at all times.

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That is one way that you're taught to help people convert to the church was your own example and your own happiness.

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Instead of acknowledging if you are actually happy or not, you're told to be happy for others.

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Okay, continuing.

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I don't care if Joseph Smith made it all up.

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Because what the church teaches now is loving your family, being nice and helping people.

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All I ever did was try to be your friend, Stan.

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But you're so high and mighty you couldn't look past my religion and just be my friend back.

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You got a lot of growing up to do, buddy.

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suck my balls damn that kid is oh yeah that's really funny

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that was a funny ending i don't know i have mixed feelings about it

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because i've heard people say oh i don't believe

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that any mormons actually believe that joseph smith was a prophet

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and that the church is actually real i think that they say

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that they do or i'm trying to remember what they said but i remember being like, no, I definitely believed it.

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I mean, I sacrificed a lot of my life for it.

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And I was not friends with certain people because of it, which is ironic because at the end of this, it was like, oh, you couldn't even see past my religion.

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And it is funny because in the, and I don't know if this has changed by now, but when I was a young woman, when I was a teenager,

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there was this little pamphlet called for the strength of youth.

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And it said something like only hang out with people of your same standards.

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Hi everyone.

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So I'm editing right now, but I decided to actually look it up

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and it was about dating actually it wasn't about just friends in general it says

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or it used to at least i don't think it does

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anymore it used to say only date people of your same standards i'm not exactly sure where i got

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that more broad interpretation as you'll see in just a minute

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or so i did get maybe a tiny bit of

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that from my mom but i might have just taken

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that a little too far i'm not exactly sure but i don't want to spread misinformation thank you Let's continue.

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And I should really look that up to see if it still says something like that, because I remember feeling weird and a little bit guilty or maybe not guilty,

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but just nervous because I was worried that they would lead me astray, you know, and drag me away from the church or something.

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My mom would actually teach us to, instead of you being the only one in a group of non-believers or bad influence kids,

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I don't, I don't remember the wording that she would use, but she would say be in a group of people with your same standards

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and bring one person in at a time without your standards

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because you can influence them a lot easier than you trying

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to influence an entire group like you're more likely the one to be influenced

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and that stuck with me too i thought that was very interesting

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and i mean in a way she's right like

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if you're going to hang out with a bunch of criminals

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or something like that then most likely you'll become a criminal I mean, I don't know.

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I've never tried it.

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And I do think that she was mostly worried about me getting into drugs or drinking or stuff like that.

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It wasn't so much connected to, oh, are they Mormon or not?

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So maybe a lot of parents teach their kids in a similar way.

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But anyway, you're taught to be a good example, to be kind and nice and respectful to everybody.

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But as far as being an actual friend to somebody, I think that there is a little more caution with that.

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Rather than, oh, do you want to be friends with this person?

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Do you think that they are a good influence?

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The church, to me, it felt like the church was telling me who to be friends with, I guess.

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I don't know.

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That could have just been my experience.

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If anybody has a similar story to mine, you know, let me know what your experience is.

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I do think that family values and being kind

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and serving others are some really valuable things that the church still teaches

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but it also comes with a level of judgment

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or feeling validated in judging others and feeling like you're the right one

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and they're the wrong one or they don't know and you know

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that is a little bit i still have a hard time with

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that i like having the opinion

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that i i don't really know um what's out there there might be a god there most likely isn't

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but i'm not going to say oh of course there's not

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one you're dumb for thinking there is i don't know i could be the wrong one

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but i just have learned

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that living my life like there is absolutely one is not worth it to me

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because i i just don't know so i'm living my life the way

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that i think is best not how someone else tells me to live

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so anyway wow that was a good time

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that was interesting it was funny

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and also thought-provoking for me at least let me know what your guys's experience is especially

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if you're also an ex-mormon or

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if you are a mormon like i'd love to hear your thoughts too

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but thank you so much for this recommendation i'm

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so glad we were finally able to do this

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and hail baby's still asleep hell yeah let me know what else i should be watching on this channel

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and i will see you in the next video bye guys

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