This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.

Okay, so Becca, I am so excited to have you on the podcast and to hear your story. You obviously send it to me in an email and I got to read over it and it's

awesome and I'm excited to have you on because obviously you're younger and you have a fresh perspective on, you know, what it's like to be a younger person

and that's, you know, going through a faith crisis and coming back and I love it.

So yeah, why don't you start by telling us a little bit about yourself and just, you know,

how old you are, where you live, those kind of things,

and then we'll jump into your story.

Cool. Yeah so I am almost 18 years old I turn 18 in a few weeks.

Currently I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. I grew up in Germany, however, and when I was around 13, I moved to the U.S. So yeah.

Okay, so tell me about Germany. I mean, did you're, yeah, why were you guys living there? Like, tell me about more about that.

So my dad had started a translation company where he translates

IP addresses or something,

and he wanted to broaden his company to Europe.

And so when I was, I think, like five months old,

my whole family decided to move there.

Both my parents grew up in the US.

My dad grew up in Nebraska and my mom grew up in Provo, Utah. So we moved there when I was around five months old and we just fell in love with it and we didn't want to move back. So I kind of just grew up there.

I love Germany.

Growing up there was so amazing.

It kind of helped me gain a way more worldly perspective than like I think I would have had if I would have just

grown up in Utah especially with the church because I feel like that was also something that kind of

triggered my faith journey kind of like leaving the church was kind of one of the

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