Unexpected pain and loss led Susan to leave the church, after 15 years away she returned.
Come Back Podcast
Ashly Stone
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
"There were a lot of small steps along the way, and then one day I had a revelation. A voice came to my head, it was my first spiritual experience in 15 years and it said: "your family needs you, it's time for you to go back to the church." And I just said who are you? But I knew what I heard and I knew what had happened and it was a faith filled journey from there. I had to rethink things again. One thing I thought about was the story of Rip Van Winkle. It was like all the sudden I woke up and thought how did I get here? What am I doing on the side lines? Why am I not in the church anymore? I just felt upside down."
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2015/04/waiting-for-the-prodigal?lang=eng
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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Susan, I'm listening excited to have you on the podcast. I was first introduced to your story, which a lot of listeners may have already heard of your story and they don't know it yet. |
| 0:25.2 | But I was first introduced to your story several years ago when elder Brent H. Nelson gave the talk waiting for the prodigal. He mentioned his sister Susan and her story and I love that talk so much and I know that so many people did and it resonates so much with what we're doing on the comeback podcast and one of the things that I thought during that talk is that, you know, we sometimes think that, you know, general authorities, their families are immune to faith crisis because they're so, you know, we admire them so much and so |
| 1:05.2 | hearing your story and your experience and then coming back was just so powerful to me |
| 1:11.1 | and so powerful to so many other people I know. So I am so just honored, absolutely honored. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm honored to be here with you and thank you very much and you're right. |
| 1:21.5 | General authorities are not immune to any kind of issues |
| 1:24.8 | or faith crises or anything else. |
| 1:26.4 | They're families. |
| 1:27.2 | You know, it just happens to everybody. |
| 1:30.3 | Yep. |
| 1:31.2 | It's so wonderful to have you on. |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, why don't we go ahead and jump in? |
| 1:34.8 | I'd love to just hear a little bit about you |
| 1:36.5 | and then we can jump into your story. |
| 1:38.9 | Okay, well, I'm retired. |
| 1:41.3 | I've been retired. |
| 1:42.2 | I've been retired I within the corporate world I've been retired now since 2018 I |
| 1:46.0 | moved out here to Georgia I live North Atlanta one of my sons well I'm a son and a daughter my son lives here with his family. I have two darling |
| 1:55.0 | granddaughters and I just love being here around those guys. They are just |
| 1:59.4 | the best. We're in the same ward together. And so that's where I do. |
| 2:04.0 | I also write, so there's a number of things I do with my time. |
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