Amber grew up in a troubled home, after finding joy reading The Book of Mormon she comes back to the church. She now volunteers with youth and loves being a foster parent.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

"I love watching Jesus Christ work in the hard things. I love watching Him heal others from these hard places. I can go to the temple and feel the spirit, I know I can and I should be there. In the heavy I know I can bring my 5 loaves and 2 fishes. I have so little things that I can offer. My husband and I are in no way perfect foster parents, but our heart is there. If we bring what we have to offer to God He is going to sanctify it and he's going to make it enough."

Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia

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0:00.0	This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.
0:07.0	Okay. Okay, Amber, so excited to have you on the podcast. So you sent me your story over
0:20.7	email and I loved it and I'd love to hear just a little bit about you like, you know, a little bit about your family and just you in general so everyone has kind of some context for who you are before we jump into your story. So yeah. Yeah, so I am a
0:36.7	mom of four boys. We have our older two, our biological and then our younger two we just adopted last Friday and
0:44.8	Oh my gosh congratulations thank you we are so happy and you know I'll get into more of that later but yeah we are just so blessed and so grateful and me my
0:56.4	husband has been married for 10 years and yeah it's been great.
1:00.1	Awesome cool well yeah let's go ahead and jump into your story then. My parents, my mom especially, she came from Pioneer Livestock. I mean, everybody, you can trace them all the way back. My dad he was not a member of the church. He
1:16.1	converted when he married my mom when he was like 18 or 19, but he was never
1:21.2	really super active and my parents, I will say they have you know their own stories to tell so I don't want to do that for them.
1:31.0	But they have very rough childhoods. There was substance use and a lot of things that's kind of a
1:36.8	package deal right there's a lot of things kind of come in with that and they didn't have a lot of opportunities and resources that many other
1:49.0	families might be able to have and so they started their family young and I was the oldest of five
1:55.2	children and there was substance use in our home. And so it made home kind of
2:01.2	chaotic, a little unpredictable, and, you know, could be a little scary sometimes.
2:07.0	And I will say, I love my parents so much.
2:09.0	There's been a lot of healing and a lot of forgiveness on both sides.
2:12.0	But yeah, it was kind of an understanding of. and a lot of forgiveness on both sides.
2:12.7	But yeah, it was kind of an unpredictable way
2:16.5	to grow up.
2:18.3	And I'm sure I'll get into this later as well,
2:20.6	but I am so grateful for it.
2:22.2	I would not take it back for anything. But because my mom did kind of grow up being exposed to the gospel, she was able to have moments of peace.
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