" I remember the last thing that he landed on was talking about Jesus Christ, and I just remember thinking like, oh my gosh, like, what am I doing? How am I doing this by myself? How am I thinking I can possibly get through this crazy time in my life... How am I doing this alone? So I said, you know what, I'm going to read the Book of Mormon, everything revolves around this book, right? Let's see what it's actually about."
"It's a little scary, you know, going to church with tattoos for the first time or having multicolored hair and going to church or dressing a certain way. But like at the end of the day, we are all children of God. He's just happy to see us there. And even if you don't feel like you belong, you belong because he accepts you. You belong because you belong with Christ. Not because you belong with the crowd, but because you belong with Christ."
"This is what those athletes are missing, they are missing peace. They're missing hope and they're missing security. I have never been more confident in my life. In sports, we put on this facade that we're the best and we have so much confidence and it is so shallow. You do one thing and boom, our confidence is tanked. And so my invitation to those athletes would be, if you want to be more confident than you've ever been, if you want to have peace, you wanna have hope, you wanna have true belonging, if you wanna be blessed both temporally and spiritually...follow God and let him be the author and finisher of your story. And I know that as I continue to trust in him, my life's gonna lead to places much, much better than what I could have done myself."
Convert from Catholicism, Emmanuel has his records removed and then finds his way back to the gospel.
"God has been miraculous. And the best thing that ever happened is I learned that I love Jesus Christ. I love what he does for us. I know he is real and I know that he loves me, which I never knew that before, I was just going through those experiences to have to tell the story here, and there's just so much more about being a gay man and navigating through the church."
Sharing stories of those that have come back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If you have a story to share please contact: ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com
Sharing stories of those that have come back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If you have a story to share please contact: ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com
Sharing stories of those that have come back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If you have a story to share please contact: ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com
"I studied and I prayed and I screamed at God and I sobbed in the shower....when you realize you don't know what you believe anymore and that potentially everything that you have believed and you've built your life on and you've built your eternity on...when that is suddenly gone?? You are like...I don't know who I am, I just felt like I was in absolute misery, I didn't know what was up, I didn't know what was down. I knew I was a good person, I knew I had values....but I needed direction."
Sharing stories of those that have come back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If you have a story to share please contact: ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com