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Speaker 1: Two Mormon missionaries knocked on my mum's door.

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Speaker 2: My parents lit them in.

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Speaker 3: Heaven's Helpline is an investigation into the Church of Jesus

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Speaker 3: Christ of Latter day Saints the Mormons. Over six episodes.

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Speaker 3: Will hear from ex missionaries.

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Speaker 1: I was just a full on soldier for the church

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Speaker 1: ex bishops.

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Speaker 4: I was trying to help them find ways of pressing

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Speaker 4: who they were attracted to.

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Speaker 3: And members of the church past and present.

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Speaker 2: He said, that was the holy guist telling you that

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Speaker 2: you are commanded to marry.

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Speaker 3: Me about keeping families together for eternity at any cost.

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Speaker 2: They kept insisting that I needed to forgive him.

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Speaker 5: There is nothing that you would warrant breaking up.

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Speaker 3: A family, and the ways that the church keeps cases

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Speaker 3: of abuse hushed up.

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Speaker 1: They did what I was supposed to do.

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Speaker 5: I told my bishop a church wouldn't deliberately put a

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Speaker 5: child in harm's way another warning sign.

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Speaker 1: I just tell the.

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Speaker 4: Help plane and they can make it all go away.

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Speaker 3: Is this the LDS Church abuse Helpline?

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Speaker 2: While speaking to

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Speaker 3: I'm Murray Jones, investigative reporter for The New Zealand Herald

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Speaker 3: and host of Heaven's Helpline out soon on iHeartRadio or

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Speaker 3: wherever you get your podcasts.