Nate's spiritual experiences helped turn his life around to something beautiful and fulfilling.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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"I go and meet with my branch president. Just the nicest, goofiest, happiest person. I just felt so comfortable. I knew this guy loved me. He's not going to judge me. I went in and I confessed everything. I told him I messed up, but I wanted to go to the temple. I remember he said, 'Nate, you've confessed and you've forsaken. You are forgiven. But what's most important now is you need to forgive yourself.' That was the hardest part. I remember thinking 'God, if you could forgive me, maybe I can forgive myself' because I just felt so bad. I had missed so many opportunities to do good things. I messed up - I messed up really bad. And I didn't love myself. I remember after that meeting just thinking, 'I did it! I let it go, I let it go! I was able to do it with president Donnelly's help!' I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and if He was willing to pay the price to die for me, then I can have the courage to let it go. I can let my ego go and it's all on Him. So when I walked out of that office I remember just feeling like, yes! I felt so free, just so clean and happy and light."

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 Come Back Podcast. Nate, so excited to have you on the podcast. Lauren actually was like, hey, we got to get
0:19.3	Nate on. We have like this huge library of story submissions and Lauren was like okay we got to get
0:27.0	naid on his his story is awesome so I'm super excited to have you on and hear your story. Thank you. Tell me a little bit about you like where you live what you do for work maybe or you know any background information that you have just. Okay. My name is Nate Tuft. I'm right now I live in Billings,
0:46.1	Montana. Oh my gosh that's awesome. My husband would probably love living there. He's a fly
0:51.0	fisherman and oh yeah, bow hunting, fishing, all that. That's right up
0:56.4	my alley too. So I grew up mostly in Wyoming though. I moved to Billings in 2016. I started a moving business and operated a moving business for about
1:08.0	eight years and then I made it good enough money to get okay enough to decide I wanted to do something else and so now I'm in I'm going to
1:15.9	MSUB getting a bachelor's in biology. I wanted to be a physician but I'm a little too old to start that
1:21.8	journey in my opinion and with my kids age so I decided to go the PA route and
1:27.0	Yeah, that's that's where I'm at I've got got three kids, three, five, and seven, and they're all in soccer right now, so life is crazy as a soccer dad.
1:40.0	I love that so much. So are you still doing your moving business?
1:44.0	No, I basically sold everything off and the moving business is tough.
1:49.0	It's a tough industry.
1:51.0	Definitely back-breaking.
1:52.0	Friends let do it.
1:54.0	And so, yeah, I saw that side of it.
1:56.0	I'm a counselor in the elders court presidency, so I'm pretty much still, still in the business, you know?
2:02.0	You're a pro now. still in the business, you know?
2:06.0	You're a pro now, they know who to call. Yeah, they do.
2:08.0	I love that so much.
2:10.0	It's so great to have you on the podcast.
2:12.0	Let's go ahead and just jump into your story.
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