Mary's experiences coming home early from her mission, getting divorced, and searching for answers.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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"As I was going through these years of inactivity and darkness, I was making this list in my phone in my notes app of all these questions and concerns and doubts that I had. It got longer and longer -- it was a long list of things that I was upset about. The first day I went back to church and went to a class, the top question on my list was about patriarchal blessings. I had this question and for hours I had thought about it and tried to come up with an answer and I just didn't. It didn't make sense to me, and it was upsetting to me. In that first class this girl spoke about patriarchal blessings, within 10 minutes she had bore her testimony and explained it in a way that I'd never thought of. It was just this clear, simple answer for me. So I crossed that question off, and it continued that way. Every week I went to church there was another question crossed off. To me, that was just this huge testament that God knew me and He knew my concerns. He was waiting for my effort. It was like, you give me effort, I'll give you answers. I'll give you clarity, and it has continued that way."

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.
0:07.0	Surf clothing is one of our favorite brands. They have been supporting us since the very beginning. We love them so much. I think one of the things that I like about surf so much is that my husband is
0:25.0	is that my husband is literally obsessed and I brought him in here to share his
0:29.7	experience with serve clothing. So Jesse tell us. I love serve clothing. This is the best shirt that I've ever owned for church and professional purposes. It's got four-way stretch which makes it really nice because not all the time I'm at my desk
0:44.0	oftentimes I'm moving and out and about so it's really nice to have a flexible shirt
0:47.9	that moves with me I know that it's got a mesh collar that I love I think the purpose of
0:52.3	that is really to prevent stains, but it's also super comfortable. It's way more comfortable around my neck. You know, if I'm at church or in business meetings with a tie or whether I don't have a tie, it's really comfortable.
1:03.0	It's got arm vents, which I love because I'm kind of a bigger fella.
1:06.4	It helps me so that I can be a bit breathable, and I love it.
1:08.9	And also, you can get 15% off a shirt from Serb using the code come back. Well Mary I am so excited to have you on the
1:16.7	podcast fellow St George girl here. Yeah yeah I'm so excited to be here thank you. So tell me a little bit about you like are you
1:25.7	married half kids or are you working are you in school like tell us about you and then let's jump in your
1:30.9	story. Yeah so I'm 24.
1:34.0	I am from Oregon.
1:35.8	I currently live in Salem.
1:38.4	And I love it here.
1:39.4	I love the rain and the trees and being by my family I am just going to college right now I'm
1:46.2	studying social work so it's kind of what I'm up to. That's so cool so you're going to
1:52.3	Utah Tech. No, so I'm actually in Oregon now. I was in St. Jordan.
1:57.6	Moved back. But okay, so you're in or I was like, yeah, there's not a ton of brain here but I I love it when it rains too.
2:04.8	I get it. I get it okay. St George was a little too too hot for me. Yes. Well, I mean it is hot here. I love it, but I moved to St. George. I was only there for like three years when I was during the time I was married. Okay and then ended up
2:25.4	back in Oregon. So like I said I'm 24 I was raised in the church. I've always had a very active
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