At a young age Colton felt his testimony couldn't get any stronger. But after years of not feeding it he found himself in a dark place. How he came back to the light he loved and needed.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

"I kept running into all of these things that for my whole life I had read and experienced something so powerfully. I felt so bad because I had forgotten everything that was in the book. It just made me really sad. I remember thinking back to when I first read the Book of Mormon -- the first time I ever cried while reading it was when Nihor slew Gideon in Alma chapter one. It seems like a silly, stupid thing, but that was a special experience on my bed early in the morning before school. Just learning these stories and the faith of all the people in it is so inspiring. There are verses that you read that are especially for you. When you read them, you just can't deny them. That's what my experience was when I reread it. The Holy Spirit is testified to me on every single page of the truthfulness of the teachings, the prophecies, and the testimony that is in there. There is no way that Joseph Smith could have just written this up."

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. Me and my wife absolutely love what you guys are doing so yeah
0:18.5	There's dozens of episodes that we've listened to that and several that we've had to or I've
0:25.3	re-listened to because they're just so good. Well thank you so much I I do the same thing I re-listen to the episodes after I record him sometimes because I'm just like,
0:37.0	oh my gosh, that was amazing and it's, it's, I feel like the people that are meant to tell their stories, it's like they just kind of get like led to us and I don't know, it's, it's really special. So I appreciate that. Let's get started. Colton so excited to have you on the
0:56.0	podcast. I think the first time that I was introduced to you was when I saw a reel that you made about
1:06.1	and like I sent it to everybody that I know because I thought it was so awesome.
1:08.0	The three different pictures.
1:11.4	The first one was just me with my name tag on and it said
1:14.3	something like I thought I was doing this for God's kingdom and then the next one was me
1:20.6	holding the copy of the Book of Mormon I think next to a cornfield because I served in Nebraska.
1:26.0	The line was like, I told people that this blue book was the word of God and it was just me like flash forward whatever 10 years and I just said
1:36.1	nothing's changed baby I loved that so much that was so good. I feel like there's so much stuff out there that's
1:47.2	antagonistic to the church and I love people that are just unapologetic about their testimony. It's the best,
1:56.2	especially on the internet where you're susceptible to so many people just attacking you and
2:12.0	but it's like, oh oh I actually don't care what you you call me or what you say if you're going to be little my testimony like I don't care like I'm just doing me. I kind of made that video because I had seen some content that was just like it just on the
2:21.0	other end obviously yeah so liberating to leave the church and all these
2:26.1	different things and I was like I don't agree with that but I thought it was a good little kind of hook or a tease.
2:34.6	Oh yeah, it was great.
2:36.2	I loved it.
2:37.4	So good.
2:38.4	I literally said it to like 10 people so loved it.
2:41.4	Well, awesome. Let's just go ahead and jump in. I kind of like to hear a little bit of
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