It was a beautiful November morning in Southern Alberta. The radiant blue sky flirted with the winter wheat, magically framing the splendor of the Rocky Mountains on the drive from Lethbridge to the Mormon Temple in Cardston. In a few short hours I would marry my best friend— committing myself to him not just…
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Born To Breed A Nation
I was born into the Mormon faith, and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta—a city enmeshed in Canada’s polygamist history (more on this in an upcoming blog) with a sizable and politically powerful Mormon population. As a Mormon woman born in 1971, my life course was a pre-ordained path of marriage, motherhood and service—I was born…