Andrew left the church after feelings of rejection by fellow members. Through the Spirit of Christ he was drawn back.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

"Actively go out of your way to show your LGBTQ children that you love them, be patient with them whether they have told you about their life 10 years ago or 5 minutes ago, it is because they want you on their path. You're better off loving them and listening to them."

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.
0:07.0	I grew up in in Southern Missouri and I was raised Baptist. I was raised outside of the church and when I was around 15 years old the missionaries found me and met with me and they gave me this book the Book of Mormon.
0:32.0	That night they asked me if I would read and
0:35.8	pray about the Book of Mormon and the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints,
0:40.4	I ended up doing that and growing up I never really had spiritual experiences
0:49.6	and I didn't really have vivid dreams or anything like that.
0:55.4	I never remembered my dreams, but that night I ended up having a dream
1:00.0	that I still remember quite vividly to this day in which my best friend at the time in high school came to me and told me that I would join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and that I would serve a
1:16.8	mission for the Lord. That kind of laid the path. I ended up waking up and I believe I had like an iPod touch at the time and
1:28.0	recorded a little voice memo that I still have this day through my my headphones and and that laid the path for for a
1:38.7	journey into the church and coming to know the Savior, I ended up getting very deep into the church very quickly
1:49.6	when I was 16, 17, 18, with kind of a wish or an agreement with my Heavenly Father that if I went deeper into the church I thought that
2:08.9	I would be blessed with being straight.
2:13.0	I had felt attractions to the same gender as early as I could remember,
2:20.0	and that was kind of at the pinnacle and at the center of my
2:29.4	conversion into the church as well as my commitment to Christ was that I would have what I view
2:39.5	to be a curse my entire life that very much tormented me that it would be removed if I if I got
2:48.3	baptized it didn't go away but I continued to meet with church leaders and kind of was not directly told but it was alluded
3:00.6	throughout my time in the church that just go a little bit deeper just go a little bit
3:05.6	further commit yourself further and and more to Christ and and this curse will be
3:12.0	taken away from you that that led to me getting working to get the
3:17.3	priesthood and going on temple trips and I went to Brigham Young University right after I graduated high school, eventually got my
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