Wendi's experience living in a marriage with her spouse in a faith crisis. Her advice on how to navigate the complexities while still respecting boundaries.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

"Statistically everything was against us at that point. I knew that I would never leave the church because of the spiritual experiences that I had. I had no doubt in my mind I could never give up Christ, the Church, and Heavenly Father and all my knowledge and testimony. I can't give it up, I can't give Joseph Smith up."

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	Your episode is one that people have been really asking for a ton and so I'm really I mean you have
0:21.4	story and then yeah it's like people really need to hear it so I was just like let's just let's just let's go for it so
0:30.8	I hope I can like help people in the best way.
0:34.6	That's what I've been praying for.
0:35.9	Like, you know, it takes a lot of guts I think
0:39.2	and hopefully a lot of respect for my husband's because he's not able to share his story.
0:45.0	Right. So it's taken a lot to like be okay with this so I'll do my best.
0:52.0	Let's let's go ahead and jump in. So let's start with tell me a little bit about you and your story. Give us some context there. Tell me a little bit about your faith journey. I know you kind of, you know, went through
1:07.2	your own stuff and I'd love to hear kind of some background about your story and then I'd love'd love to jump into you know this is a unique episode
1:15.1	because it's you know we're talking about you know your spouse and and you and kind of that dynamic and we've had a lot of questions from from
1:25.2	listeners okay so I just want to say that like everybody's story is different and anything that I might say here.
1:36.0	It's purely my opinion and my experience.
1:39.0	So I just, I never want to offend anyone or hurt anyone's feeling. if I say something you know I might that's not my intention I
1:47.0	Grew up in a large family. I had really great parents gosh. I'm already getting emotional like what the heck I had always had such a
1:56.2	faith and testimony of the gospel maybe not always you know as strong as saying now
2:06.3	But I remember like going to baptisms and like crying because I felt the spirit so strong I just was such a sensitive soul I guess and I always knew you know the gospel was true but
2:17.5	there came a time and I do think this is pertinent to to say in my story that when I was about 15 I had a Sunday
2:26.2	school teacher ask you know do you guys know that the church is true like you
2:29.8	guys should pray about it and so I prayed about it and that next week during
2:35.6	sacrament I had the most spiritual experience I've ever had in my entire life.
2:41.6	It was like so, so strong and so like I don't even have answers to everything that was there and I still have questions but no matter what I knew that the church was
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