Alyssa Grenfell

About halfway through the school year, broke to my husband, hey, I think I might not believe in this anymore. After a lot of conversations, we both decided that we wanted to leave together after reading a lot of church history for him, after lots of conversations, like I said. So it was really helpful.

One of my favorite pictures of our whole marriage is us holding our coffee cups for the first time. For most people, such a simple, straightforward thing is like drinking your morning cup of coffee. This is our first ever cup of coffee. I think I was about 24 at that point. didn't grow horns, didn't fall beneath the floor. Everything proceeded as normal. It was very underwhelming.

One of my favorite pictures of our whole marriage is us holding our coffee cups for the first time. For most people, such a simple, straightforward thing is like drinking your morning cup of coffee. This is our first ever cup of coffee. I think I was about 24 at that point. didn't grow horns, didn't fall beneath the floor. Everything proceeded as normal. It was very underwhelming.

One of my favorite pictures of our whole marriage is us holding our coffee cups for the first time. For most people, such a simple, straightforward thing is like drinking your morning cup of coffee. This is our first ever cup of coffee. I think I was about 24 at that point. didn't grow horns, didn't fall beneath the floor. Everything proceeded as normal. It was very underwhelming.

Most sins after you leave the church, most sins as an ex-Mormon, you're like, this is pretty underwhelming. I also, one of my favorite memories is the first time I went to after

Most sins after you leave the church, most sins as an ex-Mormon, you're like, this is pretty underwhelming. I also, one of my favorite memories is the first time I went to after

Most sins after you leave the church, most sins as an ex-Mormon, you're like, this is pretty underwhelming. I also, one of my favorite memories is the first time I went to after

after work drinks with my co-workers they're kind of everybody's getting to know each other and they're like why did you come to New York and I start talking about Utah and Mormonism and leaving the church and garments the religious underwear the temple endowment the prayer circle the ceremony the oaths and the handshakes and I just remember it was a probably a group of 15 people but as I'm just talking more and more people stop their conversations and just lean in to be like wait are you talking about leaving the cult right now

after work drinks with my co-workers they're kind of everybody's getting to know each other and they're like why did you come to New York and I start talking about Utah and Mormonism and leaving the church and garments the religious underwear the temple endowment the prayer circle the ceremony the oaths and the handshakes and I just remember it was a probably a group of 15 people but as I'm just talking more and more people stop their conversations and just lean in to be like wait are you talking about leaving the cult right now

after work drinks with my co-workers they're kind of everybody's getting to know each other and they're like why did you come to New York and I start talking about Utah and Mormonism and leaving the church and garments the religious underwear the temple endowment the prayer circle the ceremony the oaths and the handshakes and I just remember it was a probably a group of 15 people but as I'm just talking more and more people stop their conversations and just lean in to be like wait are you talking about leaving the cult right now

And just like I could it was kind of affirming to me to have. And I, you know, I always have those experiences talking to people. They don't know much about Mormons because you can tell from the look on their face that you're not the crazy one for thinking you were really like raised in a very crazy religion.

And just like I could it was kind of affirming to me to have. And I, you know, I always have those experiences talking to people. They don't know much about Mormons because you can tell from the look on their face that you're not the crazy one for thinking you were really like raised in a very crazy religion.

And just like I could it was kind of affirming to me to have. And I, you know, I always have those experiences talking to people. They don't know much about Mormons because you can tell from the look on their face that you're not the crazy one for thinking you were really like raised in a very crazy religion.

Whereas, you know, if you if you're kind of talking to people in Utah, maybe they'll kind of act like, oh, this is all very normal. You know, of course. Mormons wear garments, but to someone who's never interfaced with the religion, it is probably 10 to 20 times stranger and odder than people who are familiar with it.

Whereas, you know, if you if you're kind of talking to people in Utah, maybe they'll kind of act like, oh, this is all very normal. You know, of course. Mormons wear garments, but to someone who's never interfaced with the religion, it is probably 10 to 20 times stranger and odder than people who are familiar with it.

Whereas, you know, if you if you're kind of talking to people in Utah, maybe they'll kind of act like, oh, this is all very normal. You know, of course. Mormons wear garments, but to someone who's never interfaced with the religion, it is probably 10 to 20 times stranger and odder than people who are familiar with it.

So that kind of surprise on people's faces has been healing for me in some ways because it helps me feel like I'm not the sinner. I'm not the crazy one. It was what I was raised in. And that normalcy is not what... I experienced as a kid learning to iron shirts as an eight-year-old and writing letters to my husband about how I was saving myself for him. So yeah.

So that kind of surprise on people's faces has been healing for me in some ways because it helps me feel like I'm not the sinner. I'm not the crazy one. It was what I was raised in. And that normalcy is not what... I experienced as a kid learning to iron shirts as an eight-year-old and writing letters to my husband about how I was saving myself for him. So yeah.

So that kind of surprise on people's faces has been healing for me in some ways because it helps me feel like I'm not the sinner. I'm not the crazy one. It was what I was raised in. And that normalcy is not what... I experienced as a kid learning to iron shirts as an eight-year-old and writing letters to my husband about how I was saving myself for him. So yeah.

I think that one of my first Mormon memories is that there's a YouTuber who would go around and film the temple ceremonies. I remember probably when I was like late middle school, early high school, coming across the thumbnail of, you know, secrets inside a Mormon temple. Oh, okay. I remember thinking to myself, I didn't click on it.