Young Women
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Sep 22, 2026
Evann HowlettGUEST
I'm not going along with that, so I'm gonna call out the BS when I see it.
Evann HowlettGUEST
And I mean, I continued to do that, especially in T young women's, where everything was focused on marriage and children.
Evann HowlettGUEST
And I would say-
Cynthia WinwardHOST
Mm-hmm
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Cynthia WinwardHOST
Yeah.
Evann HowlettGUEST
"And I'm not, I'm not falling for it.
Evann HowlettGUEST
I'm not going along with that, so I'm gonna call out the BS when I see it." And I mean, I continued to do that, especially into Young Women's, where everything was focused on marriage and children.
Evann HowlettGUEST
And I would say, you know, I would make that correction when someone was saying, "When you get married," "When you have kids," and I would say, "If, if, if." And I would say it-
Susan PorterGUEST
And then, so of course I accepted the call.
Susan PorterGUEST
And then he told me that the second counselor would be Amy Wright, who I did know because she had been serving on Bonnie Corden's General Advisory Council for Young Women.
Barbara Morgan GardnerHOST
Wow.
Barbara Morgan GardnerHOST
So
Susan PorterGUEST
And many people don't know that the nine general officers meet together frequently.
Susan PorterGUEST
That's great.
Susan PorterGUEST
young women, primary and Relief Society, we meet together to talk about areas of common concern, what we're each working on.
Susan PorterGUEST
Of course, as we travel, we want to be, you know, representative and sensitive to each other.
Margie DehlinGUEST
I feel like for my mother, it gave her an outlet, an outlet for her energy, an outlet for her, um, rallying people and leading people.
Margie DehlinGUEST
She was always, you know, stake young women's president or ward young women's president or...
Margie DehlinGUEST
And always, um, highly social and in those early years, I think even lonely with young children.
Margie DehlinGUEST
And so it gave her, um, a community, and it gave her an outlet that was important.
Margie DehlinGUEST
When I was there, it was top 10 in the country every year.
Margie DehlinGUEST
So we did better some years, um, than others.
Margie DehlinGUEST
And then, um, married in the temple, four children, and, uh, served in various callings, mostly Young Women's.
John DehlinHOST
How long were you active in the church?
Jana RiessGUEST
Right.
Susan HinckleyHOST
Uh, because-- but, I mean, in part, um, that just happens because you're older, so you're not gonna be the primary president or probably serving in the Young Women's.
Susan HinckleyHOST
I mean, I think the chances go down-
Jana RiessGUEST
Mm-hmm
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Cynthia WinwardHOST
Oh, yeah
Jana RiessGUEST
... dress, about modesty, about bodies, about purity, about sex.
Jana RiessGUEST
And one of the s- most striking findings to me was that during this little period in the early 21st century, the modesty rhetoric for-- directed toward young women just went haywire and was, for one part of these young women's formative years, they were hearing those messages six times as often as boys their age.
Jana RiessGUEST
So that's the fallout of purity culture.
John DehlinHOST
Where he's about to get called into the stake presidency in the Redmond Stake.
John DehlinHOST
She's been serving Young Women's president, you know, stake callings, all the callings.
John DehlinHOST
It's, it's looking like they're about to be called-
Michelle SeamonsGUEST
Mm-hmm
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Michelle SeamonsGUEST
But I had my next speaker on eight hours a day, and I was taking in for the first time different content, and it wasn't, it wasn't general conference.
John DehlinHOST
What was it?
Michelle SeamonsGUEST
And I was the young women's president at the time, and it was podcasts.
Michelle SeamonsGUEST
Um-
John DehlinHOST
Well, they've already kinda met, but- Mm-hmm ... um, you know, what, what's it like when they get married? They end up having six kids, serving in all the callings.
John DehlinHOST
Bishoprics, stake presidencies, young women's, Relief Society presidencies, and in it to win it.
John DehlinHOST
So, like, we'll hear more about their idyllic Mormon story, and then what happens? What, uh, where the twists and turns develop, and what would cause them to start with such an idyllic, almost perfect Mormon upbringing, what would cause them to start questioning, and to have, uh, what might even be framed as a crisis of faith? And where does that lead them? So those are the cliffhangers that we will, uh, we'll jump right to.
John DehlinHOST
So if you're watching this, we're gonna release these right in sequence.
DeeGUEST
That he loved each of us, that he knows each of us.
DeeGUEST
As I got older and the traumas that I had suffered started to kind of seep through, every Sunday I'd be standing in Young Women's and I'm saying these values that I know have no connection to me because In my mind, I'm telling myself you're used up.
DeeGUEST
Your innocence was taken.
DeeGUEST
You're a liar.
Hank SmithHOST
We have recently undergone a major change in having Sunday school come follow me every week.
Hank SmithHOST
Aaronic Priesthood and Young Women's and Relief Society and Priesthood every week.
Hank SmithHOST
I like that you said that, Ross, because I think we can know that was a unanimous decision.
Hank SmithHOST
There aren't [laughs] three or four of them going, "Yeah, this is gonna work, and I'm gonna let them know," and it do- Yeah, this was all of them.
Jasmin RappleyeHOST
We are changing our church schedule.
Jasmin RappleyeHOST
We have now readjusted to a two-hour block, but did you know that in the sacrament we used to have musical performances during the administration of that ordinance? And did you know that the term beehive for young women is partly inspired by Boy Scouts? Our church has changed a lot in the last couple hundred years of our history.
Neal RappleyeHOST
[laughs]
Jasmin RappleyeHOST
Welcome to Informed Saints.
Neal RappleyeHOST
I'm not gonna lie.
Jasmin RappleyeHOST
Well, one of the things that I think is interesting is, like, when I think of church, I have a very cemented idea of what that is.
Jasmin RappleyeHOST
You've got, like, these components: sacrament meeting, Sunday school, primary, and then, like, Young Men's, Young Women's, priesthood, Relief Society.
Jasmin RappleyeHOST
And, like, that's the recipe of what church is, but that is a relatively recent conception.
Anne MaxsonHOST
You'd also talked a little bit about teenagers in general.
Anne MaxsonHOST
I know you've had an opportunity to serve in the Young Women Organization.
Anne MaxsonHOST
Can you share a little bit about that and what that looked like as a single woman?
Rachel KenningtonGUEST
That was another one of those really joyful times of my life where I leaned into trying to be a mentor and a support to these girls.
Rachel KenningtonGUEST
And I know the benefit that my own mission had in my life that I've already talked about and the things that I'm going to see it do for them.
Rachel KenningtonGUEST
One young woman in particular who's serving a mission now, She was 12 years old.
Rachel KenningtonGUEST
So that's kind of when they start in young women's and they go until they're 18.
Rachel KenningtonGUEST
And she's currently serving a mission in Cambodia.
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