"Idyllic" Mormons Choose Wonder - Mike And Michele Seamons Pt. 3 | Ep. 2195
Mormon Stories Podcast

"Idyllic" Mormons Choose Wonder - Mike And Michele Seamons Pt. 3 | Ep. 2195

B1IntermediateSeptember 14, 20261 hr 59 min
  • Interview
  • Religion

In Part Three of Mike and Michele’s story, the couple begins confronting serious concerns about Mormonism as their children struggle with missions, faith, and their place in the church. Mike becomes increasingly concerned about the challenges young Mormons are facing, and struggles to work with church leadership to keep them engaged in their faith. As they discover that the church is not working for their family in the same way anymore, they begin stepping further outside the Mormon community. They explore other Christian traditions and begin to consume media not run by the LD...

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Morma Stories Podcast. I'm your host, John Delin. It is September 10th, 2026. And today we're in part three of our three-part series

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with, I'm kind of code labeling it, the perfect Mormon family. No one's perfect. But we are here in part three of our epic interview

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with Mike and Michelle Siemens. In part one, we talked about their idyllic Mormon upbringings, Michelle in Salt Lake County, And Michael in the LA area,

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