Serving a Mission at Historic Mormon Sites - What I Wish I Would’ve Known - Camille Jones p.1 - 1477

Are Mormon missionaries who lead tours at historic church sites like those across upstate New York told to teach false information about the church’s founding? Mormon Stories producer and co-host Carah Burrell takes the reins for her second episode as lead interviewer of our guest Camille Jones as we talk with her about serving in Palmyra, New York at the LDS church’s visitor center.
In part one of our two-part interview with Camille, we discuss the narrative the church wants to be forwarded about the church’s founding versus what Camille wishes she would have known while volunteering as a full-time missionary. We cover topics from the golden plates, to the Hill Cumorah, and more. Camille also discusses the confusing and uncomfortable advances older Mormon men have made on her throughout her teen years.
This eye-opening experience highlighted the power imbalance between Mormon men and women, a theme that carries on into part 2 where Camille discusses being employed by the church.
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Part 2 of Camille's Mormon Story can be found here: • Executive Secretary to...
Show Notes:
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-WHAT PROGRESSIVE MORMONS WANT WITH JULIENNA VIEGAS-HAWS
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00:00 Introduction
02:54 Where does your Mormon story begin?
04:58 Good friends with adults, weird experience with a neighbor
10:05 Developing testimony
11:05 Any particular struggles?
12:50 Self-image
13:17 What was going on with the neighbor?
14:37 John telling about receiving over 100 responses about abuse
16:58 Camille elaborating on it
21:07 Another experience
23:56 What does it do to you to experience such a thing twice?
27:59 What's it like if your father is the bishop?
30:15 How to navigate bishop interviews?
31:52 Seminary and college
32:28 Atmosphere for dating
33:40 Past experience still having an effect?
35:19 Nerd credentials
38:40 Feelings seeing others dating
39:33 Another uncomfortable experience
42:20 View of women in the church
43:21 Culture of BYUI
47:30 Influence of BYUI on testimony
49:09 Mission to Rochester, New York
54:58 View on polygamy then
57:00 Drinking tea
59:09 Palmyra
1:02:27 Camille's role and work
1:08:30 Informed consent problem. Gatekeepers of the Restoration
1:11:56 Further locations
1:14:39 What did Camille know about the historical facts, e.g the seer stones?
1:18:35 Changes in what missionaries there tell these days?
1:20:50 Hill Cumorah
1:22:23 Effect on testimony
1:25:30 Call attractive women to the historical sites, eating disorders
1:29:30 Two Hill Cumorah theory?
1:32:17 Faith vs historical facts
1:36:56 Horses. Faith and intelligence
1:40:59 More hill Cumorah. First mission presidents
1:45:08 Grandin building
1:48:05 What has been changed in the BoM
1:51:53 How did people take these tours?
1:53:19 Peter Whitmer Farm
1:56:01 Moroni showing the plates to a woman
1:58:03 First internet missionary work online
2:01:39 Board game
2:02:40 Opportunity to use her brain and have responsibilities
2:04:28 Converts?
2:05:20 Leadership issues with women in the church
2:09:42 Consciousness of concept of feminism of patriarchy
2:11:03 Seeing breadcrumbs of problems
2:11:57 Carah's closing remarks