Why We Infiltrated & TOOK DOWN FLDS Polygamous Cult Leader (My Story) [6:46-11:52]

forged these sacred documents and everything. Well, when he couldn't get me, he changed his story and said that was just a test. You're the first woman whose faith I could not break. I could not turn you into an atheist. That's how I knew you were the one that God sent for me. Wow. Yeah, because I had that dream reinforcing it all. It contributed to me turning off my critical thinking. So I thought that's it. This explains it. He was not this atheist. I knew he wasn't. He really was this man called to be a prophet just like Joseph Smith. Now it all made sense. And he was said that God sent me to him because I was to be his help me, you know, his wife that helped him like the new Emma Smith, which is the wife of the Mormon church founder was Emma Smith and she helped Joseph Smith with his translation of the sacred records. So that was supposed to be me. So yeah, that's how I got involved in it. Wow. Using your knowledge of the church against you. And I also find it interesting that because you were a convert that probably also played a big role in all of the history was very fresh on your mind. And as a convert, I feel like, and I want your opinion, you dive a little bit more deep into the the belief system or even the history of it because you're taking it all in and then you choose to believe it versus someone who was born and raised in it. Maybe doesn't know all the ins and outs, but just goes along with it because that's what they were raised with. Do you feel like you were extremely devout because you were a convert and that set you up to further take in more information from this man? Oh, you're absolutely right because I was the only LDS teenager in my high school or in my county. There were no Mormons around where I lived at that time. And maybe there's still aren't. I don't know. But so when I believed in the Book of Mormon the first time, it was weird. But it resulted in so much happiness for me, for years, and so many things that happened that I thought were miracles like going on a mission. You did. Yes, I did. Where did you go? I went to the San Bernardino California mission and I had so many incredible experiences. It was a very rewarding and happy time for me. And I had like, I would pray about which neighborhood we should go door to door in, right? And then my companion and I would you know, go to different neighborhoods and I would try to feel in my spiritual radar. Like, is this right neighborhood? Is that the right neighborhood? And when I felt like it was the right neighborhood, we would go knocking on doors and we would always find somebody who was just praying to find the truth. You know, so many coincidences or spiritual experiences like that contributed to me just having this incredibly solid belief and the Mormon spiritual system. Yeah. When I met this other person who I'll just call him Adam. So when I met Adam, the fact that he wanted me to read the scriptures that he was presenting, then he told me to read the gospels and the New Testament and go back and forth between his false scriptures and the biblical scriptures that I had loved my whole life back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And I did that. And the positive feelings that I associated with Matthew, Mark, Lupin, John, and Acts, all those spiritual feelings got infused into this scripture thing that he had written which sounded very similar in wording to the Book of Mormon that brought me so much happiness. So when I combined all that with some other things and the dream, I ended up believing in him. I think it's also really interesting how he actually laid out all of his cards in the beginning. And then when he realized that wasn't going to work, he did a full 180. How do you look back on that experience now when he was like, oh, I fraudulently did these things and I'm not actually Mormon, I'm X Mormon. How do you view that part of your experience now? I wish I was a better critical feature. Back then. I was like, duh, I should have believed him when he told me he was lying. But since then, he's gone on and he's still actively deceiving people today. But since then, he's gone on and on and on with changes in his story, changes in the origin story, all kinds of rewriting of history about how things went down with me. I don't want to give too many specifics because I'd rather not give him any line light which he's