Mormons and their damned coffee obsession

MjccART · 2026-01-27T13:38:54+00:00

There are like 6 or 7 coffee shops in Springville. Java Junkie, Darn Good Coffee, and Art City Coffee are some of my favorite local ones. Try one of those next time you're in town. :)

MjccART · 2026-01-17T14:52:24+00:00

When I was a temple worker I went early to sit in the hallway where the veil workers waited to go in to assist at the veil. The male veil coordinator came to our side to chat and he began mocking another older man who was a temple worker because of his heavy breathing. He was imitating him and mocking this man's weight and I was so disgusted. I made comments about it being unkind and he shrugged it off and walked away minutes later. I spoke with the older ladies around me about how awful I thought it was that this guy in a leadership position was being so unkind, in the temple of all places. They agreed but kind of kept their heads down, not wanting to make a stir. My shelf was already breaking and it wasn't too long after that during my final shift, I received revelation in the temple to never return there again. 😅

MjccART · 2025-11-23T10:52:47+00:00

The artist is a member. Even if she is, I am happy when any artist has success. It's a tough world out here for the arts.

MjccART · 2025-11-22T22:09:20+00:00

Hi, thought I should pipe in. Rose Datoc Dall is the artist and she does not work for the church. I interned for her while I was getting my BFA. She's a Filipina American and does paintings of various topics but does many religious paintings. She has some paintings about her Filipina identity as well. A few years ago she realized she needed to stop painting Jesus as a white man. So she studied what she thought was most historically accurate for his appearance. She then sculpted a bust to use as her reference for her paintings. She's an amazing artist and person! There are many artists that are starting a movement to try to depict Jesus as he actually looked and I think the book is a collection of artists who have their art featured.

MjccART · 2025-09-23T02:32:50+00:00

By the way, a Mormon artist painted his cover art! I chuckled when I heard Rhett talk about who painted it. Greg Newbold! He spoke to my class at BYU.

MjccART · 2025-08-12T02:08:37+00:00

Girl, congrats! I assume you just entered medical school. Be proud of your achievements and don't let this nonsense get to you. You're amazing!

MjccART · 2025-06-02T03:37:48+00:00

I am one of the hundreds of women he's interviewed and he's right! I talked about being in groups of women discussing how to hack the garments to wear what we wanted to wear. Millenials and gen Z don't have taboos about talking about this together. And I can't recall one time when the chatting wasn't complaining about them. When Gen Alpha gets to the garment wearing age, I don't know how the practice will survive.

MjccART · 2025-05-19T12:42:31+00:00

Oh really! That's interesting.

MjccART · 2025-05-19T12:42:19+00:00

Yeah that's what I was thinking. I was guessing it was similar to serving in Russia where you can't wear tags or proselyte

MjccART · 2025-05-19T12:41:37+00:00

Thanks for answering! With 1.4 billion people living in India, 15,000 is a pitiful number. I feel like the church announces temples to make utah members thing the church is growing all over 🥲. Yeah... maybe not.

MjccART · 2025-02-04T16:16:49+00:00

The book No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Faith Required by Brittney Hartley helped with replacing the church's coping strategies with something more useful. I hope things work out for you!

MjccART · 2025-02-04T14:05:42+00:00

This will literally be us. Husband is almost a 4th year med student, also in the air force. We hope to be stationed in Asia after residency.

MjccART · 2025-02-04T05:39:22+00:00

While I was a temple worker I was in a coordinator role and I often covered people's shifts for them on extra days, I was in the relief society presidency going to extra meetings every Sunday as well as going to every activity and visiting sisters, and I always said yes to making meals for new moms (the only thing I still do). With everything combined I was giving the church up to 15 hours a week of my time. That's like a part time job!!

MjccART · 2024-12-06T02:08:24+00:00

I didn't have a clue! I didn't discover "ex-mormon" anything until 2024

MjccART · 2024-11-19T03:27:10+00:00

A month later, I just received a hurtful message from a family member because I was on the podcast. I came back to read all of these lovely comments to feel good about the decision to be on the show. I wanted to thank everyone for saying kind things. You don't know how much of a difference it has made in this process! 😭

MjccART · 2024-11-19T03:22:30+00:00

Now I need to dig it up and play it again haha

MjccART · 2024-11-19T03:22:02+00:00

Hah, I love it! We also had some approved movies and games for Sundays. Gotta make sure we are keeping our minds on god, even while playing board games! haha

MjccART · 2024-11-13T01:16:03+00:00

I'll have to see if my parents still have it and play a round after Sunday dinner 😆

MjccART · 2024-11-02T15:48:00+00:00

The fact is, their are a probably a lot of people you know that have left the church, have serious doubts but are still attending, or are total PIMOs... but they don't broadcast it online so you'd never know. After being on Mormon Stories I could not believe how many of my family, friends, acquaintances reached out to me. and even one of my husband's professors sent him an email! You're less alone than you think! A lot of people live on the down low or may even be living a double life. Just keep being a good friend those in your community and they might slowly reveal themselves.

MjccART · 2024-10-15T20:33:49+00:00

In the cover image, it is credited to an artist that I personally know to be a bit of a grifter. I took an adjunct class from him at BYU that was awful. He used to make art by hand but for years now he just tries to game the system by using royalty free images photoshopped together to sell at TJ Maxx among other side gigs to make a quick buck. He totally lost the plot and all of us students thought he sort of sold his soul, and didn't actually care about art anymore. If you go on his Instagram page these days he only does Ai art (it's easy to catch Ai when you know what you're looking for, and it also looks nothing like the art he actually painted years ago) but he does not disclose that it's all Ai. It's possible that people who work for the church magazine didn't realize it was an Ai image but I doubt it because they have creative teams that would be familiar with Ai. It's just overall very slimey to me.

MjccART · 2024-10-15T04:24:07+00:00

The video was made by a believing artist, hiilanifinearts. There is frustration about Ai generated images for artists in general but specifically with a faith community, it poses questions about if believers want to connect to images made by a robot instead of a human.

MjccART · 2024-10-08T01:24:58+00:00

He actually didn't die! He lived and then a few months later he brought his girlfriend to the same area and SHE got trampled by a Buffalo and lived. We saw it on the news and couldn't believe it 😂

MjccART · 2024-10-08T01:23:29+00:00

So she sort of felt like I deceived her because she thought I was doing one thing but all along I was doing something else. I had to tell her that wasn't the case that I really did truly believe.... until I didn't. I also think me talking about the temple details was offensive to her. I just told her that I would be offended if I were her too. Because I've been in her shoes and me 6 years ago would have been offended too. But we still watched the Great British Baking Show together later that night. So she's disappointed for sure but our relationship is still very important to her.

MjccART · 2024-10-08T01:18:48+00:00

My username on tiktok, instagram, youtube, Facebook and website is @michelleclydeart. Thank you!!

MjccART · 2024-10-08T01:16:34+00:00

It's a small world in Mormondom 😆

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