EP 585 – The African Vincenzo

Huge show this week, folks - 90 minutes of hot, steamy news, all for you. (And we might regret referring to anything as "hot" or "steamy" given the subject matter near the end of the episode.) Jared Gillins is here from super urbanized Idaho Falls!

Latter-day Saint News

* Guam's new temple has some tricks up its sleeve

* The patience and faith of the "Lost" saints of Malemba-Nkulu

* Elder Bednar speaks at the National Press Club

* Elder Uchtdorf shills for Eurowings at SLC Airport, uses "M" word

* Nephi has a Superman problem

* Latter-day Saints need to be portrayed in more than just true crime shows

* The Church is losing member share in the United States

* Elder Gong walked into a ward council

* Mormon swingers?!

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Transcript

00:00.00

Geoff Openshaw

Everybody what's going on welcome to This Week in Mormons the premiere latter day saint podcast focused on news events other stuff I guess that really covers it I'm Jeff openshaw nice to have you Jared happy a memorial day or belated memorial day to our United States listeners we hope it was nice for you.

00:08.63

Jared

And I'm Jared gillins.

00:39.86

Geoff Openshaw

Um, how was your holiday Jared do anything like wild.

00:33.91

Jared

Nothing wild. Just ah, we got our dishwasher repaired I was really grateful to the repairmen to come out on a holiday but we'd been waiting three weeks we moved and we we have a we moved into ah a new house I mean a new old house. Um, and the dishwasher has.

00:53.20

Geoff Openshaw

Hello Hello hello.

01:11.79

Jared

And it's brand new and it hasn't worked since we arrived and so anyway that was very exciting to now be able to wash dishes by machine instead of by hand like the pioneers did in their running water basins you know, um that was tongue in cheek. It's too early for jokes. Sorry it's a.

01:25.14

Geoff Openshaw

Huh for.

01:57.40

Geoff Openshaw

Ah, did you not did you not have a dishwasher in your previous house.

01:49.49

Jared

We're recording Tuesday morning because of the holiday we did. We did that dishwasher I kind of miss it because it played like you know sometimes you have an appliance and and I think generally they're like East asian companies like L...