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

I am so excited to have you on the podcast. I'm so excited to have you on the

podcast. I'm so excited to hear your story. Obviously, you know, I I read your

email and it just it touched my heart so much and I'm so excited to have you share your story with everybody so Emily welcome to the podcast.

Thank you. Thank you. It's good to be able to be where I'm at today so I can share.

Yes. Well, let's go ahead and jump in and let's just kind of start with your story and start from the beginning.

I live in Dallas, Texas with my husband, Brian,

and our three daughters.

We have teenage daughters.

We have a 16-year-old, a 14-and-13-year- old. We've been here for about five years and we love it. We moved here because of my husband's job. He works for Southwest Airlines. It's been so great. So going back to the beginning, I grew up in a small Mormon town in Utah, Payson, Utah, and my husband grew up in Lehi. We met I think it was 2004 and then we were

married in 2005 and I never really gone through anything hard.

Like I had a pretty good childhood, like

never really seen anything hard, you know, I had heard about like trials, but I didn't really know what that meant, you know, other than like the small day-to-day things that we do with. Let's see, my first real trial was when I had a miscarriage in between my oldest daughter and my next daughter.

So when she was about nine months old, I found the dose pregnant and I was on birth control like we were not trying to get pregnant so it was a shock but we were excited and then ended up going through that miscarriage and feeling like real despair and real sadness and so I thought you know like this is my in life, like this is the hardest thing I've ever done at that point.

So then I went on to have two more children, two more babies.

So I had all my babies within three years, including that miscarriage. So I was pregnant for

pregnancies in three years. You know, I think a lot of it was postpartum that maybe I didn't acknowledge or or know about even at the time, but after I had had my third baby, I found a lump like on my throat and I found out that it was thyroid cancer which I don't want to like

minimize because I know that people will listen to this. The success rate for thyroid cancer is like 99 percent. So it's really it's treatable. You know, it's something that like puts like a little bump in your flow, but something that you can get through. And so, but for me at that time, it was really, really hard because life was hard. You know, my husband, he was working, he was gone, he's a pilot, so he was gone all the time and I just had these three little babies.

So it spun me into a depression and I had stopped going to church.

Like I would try to go to church as much as I could with my three little kids up until that point and I was just so like angry with God. Like I couldn't imagine like why he would give me these three babies and then like punish me with cancer like you know like if God loves us why would he give this like these trials it was like a whole year of this it was just a really dark time. I was sitting in another doctor's office and I was told that I needed to have a hysterectomy. They had found like another tumor inside my uterus that was like the size of a softball.

It was causing a lot of pain and it was something that was necessary and so the doctor

left the room for a minute and I started to pray and I said probably my first prayer that I had ever

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