And so I just think I believe what I want to believe. If somebody wants to believe

every single thing that comes from the pulpit and every single thing in the

book of Mormon and every faith promoting story back on that's great's great. I'm so grateful that you can do that and that's your life and I'll support

you in that. Just you know this is my way and let's just crack along together.

Hi I'm Cynthia Wynward and And I'm Susan Hinckley.

And this is at last she said it.

We are women of faith discussing complicated things.

And the title of today's episode is

Embracing Your Journey, A conversation with Debbie Squires Coleman.

Welcome Debbie, we're so glad to have you. Hi Debbie. It's lovely to be here.

We are happy to have you. We you are our third guest under that title of

Embracing your journey this season and I know I can speak for Susan and say that these have been some of our most favorite

episodes we've recorded to date.

Just hearing the personal journey of other women, other Latter-day Saint women has been really healing and

fascinating. It's been wonderful. So we're so glad that you can be here and you can also tell us a little bit about your faith journey.

But before we jump into your faith journey, why don't you go ahead and just give us a little snapshot

of who you are, where you live, and then we'll jump in.

Okay, great. Well, I was born in West London, had a quite strict upbringing, but it was, I felt, always felt loved by my parents then we moved to East

London and then the government started building tower blocks and so we moved into one of those because the bomb clearance was going on and the

old Victorian houses were being knocked down and that's where I joined the church or started looking into it with my family in 75.

Met my husband in 1979 on a blind date and he converted so we I've got five children and 12 grandchildren

Wow yeah all lovely and did a mission in Greece in 2012 with my husband.

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