Join John & Margi as they interview young and spunky Brinley Jensen, a Gen Z returned missionary, as she shares her experiences growing up in the Church and the consequences she’s faced at various times as she’s spoken up for herself and grown into the person she is.
Brinley’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brinleymaej/
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro & disclaimers
00:05:00 Brinlely’s Mormon heritage & early years
00:10:30 Mother has health scare with serious miscarriage
00:12:20 Struggles with Mormon perfectionism, purity culture & constant guilt
00:36:00 Interests and testimony in High School
00:38:30 Patriarchal blessing
00:47:00 First exposure to “anti-Mormon stuff” through high school in 2019 & reaction to polygamy
00:50:00 LDS beliefs prior to mission
00:57:00 Brinley’s fears around giving birth & belief Jesus is coming soon, “last days”
01:03:00 Mission call in January 2020, to Orlando Florida, COVID MTC & depression
01:09:30 Brinley’s mission experiences with sexism & racism on her mission.
01:59:00 Unethical mental health treatment from Mission therapist.
02:04:00 Brinley realizes she doesn’t believe anymore but decides to double-down on “repentance”
02:11:00 Things get worse and Brinley becomes suicidal. Her Mission President ignores her emails until things come to a head.
02:33:00 Returning home early from mission
02:35:00 Mormon missions breed anxiety, depression, and suicidality. Systemic crisis.
02:44:00 Brinley feels her mental health struggles were used to “put on a show” instead of being empathetic during her Homecoming talk..
02:48:00 Brinley faces even more pressure to be faithful after having come home early from the Church. It’s never enough
02:55:00 Brinley’s advice or perspective for current or future Mormon missionaries.
Episode Show Notes: https://mormonstories.org/podcast/brinley-jensen/
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The upper inner circle is supposed to be Illuminati and as much as the church used to tell us they don't agree with the Catholic while that's all changed in fact I believe they are working for the Pope they use Hegelian dialect on the masses pretend that there's somewhat enemies or rivals but in reality they are not
There is something big going on not only with the Pope and many churches out there The Israel rabbis are also working with the Pope
And with the United Nations and many many many many organizations out there there is too many organizations to count
It's what I found from doing research for about 8 years on many churches and following everything the government is doing and what they are writing in their documents
I hope all missionaries watch this video
I have been seeing a full-blown attack on the New testament by many churches out there on John the revelator and the New testament
Yes and all this young woman's efforts to reach out for help how many times did she do at quite often and it is so so sad how The situation was handled
I had written my letter of resignation I want to take it into the Bishop though
I've been inactive for probably around 10 years maybe maybe a little bit less
No they are not looking out for the members best interest they're looking out for the gold pot and the honey
Before missionaries decide to go on a mission they all should watch Mormon Temple of Doom spine chilling Yes the Bible is used in that video so is the book of Mormon and many other scriptures are laid out in that video
That video can help missionaries decide if they want to go on a mission or not
The video also lays out the Mormon church history and they do go through many scriptures it may be an eye opening video for the members of the Mormon church
Peace
Women from atheism give birth. I think she needs to find a therapist about that. Everyone is afraid of a few things. When they interfere with life it should be seen to.
That app is a bit 1984.
to be a mormon is to be of a bee hive mind….I'm not saying that's bad…because I like what the mormons are trying to do…
and to be individualistic is not what they are looking for in their followers…
so to have a foot in both worlds is not going to go good if you want to be a mormon..
Individualism to the Mormons is very secular and not what they are looking for….
I think this young lady was highly influenced by outside secular influences either thru tv, secular social media on her phone, the popular secular music she listened to, secular Disney movies or the demonic mainstream media….
Also this young woman was taking highly secular prescription psychotropic drugs to treat depression…these drugs open up the receptors in the brain to all kinds of secular outside influences. I think these drugs had a huge influence on why she flipped.
Also her parents could have done a better job of teaching her how to deal with adversity as a young innocent soul being thrown out into the wicked wild world….religious, spiritual and real life adversity…
Margi is amazingly helpful and insightful.
The two missionary elders that came to visit me in college to convert me, seemed much more interested in just hanging out. We'd go golfing often, they showed me how to make donuts from store-bought pizza dough, all kinds of things. Really nice guys, but the religion was just beyond belief. Come to think of it, I think that way about any that consider a deity to rule over them. After almost 50 years, I can say they really made an impression on me, but I always wondered if they continued in their faith. I'm pretty sure I still have their business cards around here somewhere. I should try to look them up to see if I can find a clue.
Thanks so much. Suffered similar experience in an other faith's training programme. Clearly, like Brinley, I survived. Despite dragging myself through to the end of the course I failed my final paper. No surprises there. At 40 I was finally in a position to complete another programme and have the satisfaction of graduating. Thanks so much again this has given me so much perspective.
What happened to this woman is one of many reasons I left the church!! I’m a 76 year old who has left the church after being a high priest group leader and a trainer in the temple. Owning and reading all the Joseph Smith books I left the church. It’s really bad, the lies and disgraceful and dishonesty of church leaders
They hold 0 responsability over this young kids out there. I am sooo glad that I did not choose to go in a mission and instead, study, do exchanges all over the world. That was a great choice for me. Thank you Jon for doing this podcasts. Hugs from Brazil.