Convert from Catholicism, Emmanuel has his records removed and then finds his way back to the gospel
“Things continue to happen as long as you keep seeking. You know, if you’re a seeker and you found the church, rev up to think about what you were doing when you were seeking. How much were you reading? How much were you praying? Who did you associate yourself with? Where did you spend your time? Okay. Get back into that mode, then come back to your current self. Game time! You’ll be able to feel the gospel alive again.” – Book recommendation: Standing For Something, by Gordon B. Hinckley – Website: https://www.comebackpodcast.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/come.back.podcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085100628137 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Come_Back_Pod Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@come.back.podcast Join our Book Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1129233501137568/ If you have a story to share please contact: ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com For business inquiries contact: info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Partying with Post Malone… Then Finding God
“I think that’s the big thing is I had been to the temple once, right when I got outta prison. But I didn’t feel like I was doing it for myself. I felt like I was doing it for the people around me and I didn’t get to really enjoy it. And of course, your first time in the temple, you’re looking everywhere. You’re like, what does this mean? What does this mean? But now that I came back to this church and I went back for the first time in February, it’s for me, it’s for no one else. It’s for me. When you do it for yourself, it feels so much better.” Come Back Team Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer: Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Cara Reed Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Episode sponsor: Serve Clothing https://serveclothing.com/?gad_source=1
“Be Thou Humble” Thomas B. Marsh’s Come Back Story told by Casey Griffiths from Scripture Central
“ And I see that in Thomas B. Marsh’s words, where he says ‘The Savior loved me, but he loved me enough to whoop me.’ Basically, to put me in circumstances where I realized that I needed to come back and that I was missing something from my life.” Come Back Team Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer: Trent Wardwell Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Cara Reed Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Episode sponsor: Serve Clothing https://serveclothing.com/?gad_source=1
Matthew grew up Protestant but couldn’t deny the truth of the Book of Mormon. After his own faith crisis he is working towards sealing his family in the temple.
“Something told me to read the New Testament again under these new eyes of coming back to faith. I was prompted to start in the book of Acts because that told me how the early church was laid out. You see that the apostles have authority. You see the apostles laying on their hands to receive the Holy Ghost. You see the apostles baptizing. You even see the apostles go to the temple. While looking around, no other church fit that criteria but The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I really started to want to come back to the church because I felt that it was the closest to the Bible.” 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 Episode sponsor: Serve Clothing https://serveclothing.com/?gad_source=1
Oliver Cowdery’s come back story told by historian and host Casey Griffiths from the Church History Matters Podcast
“Before Oliver passes away, he goes out of his way on several occasions to publicly and ardently bear testimony of the restoration of the Book of Mormon. One of the more well-known accounts is a guy named Jacob Gates. He’s on his way to his mission and he stops in Richmond to visit Oliver Cowdery. Jacob Gates asks Oliver, ‘Is it all true? Can you tell me if it’s true?’ Oliver Cowdery says, ‘Jacob, I want you to remember what I say to you. I am a dying man. What would it profit me to tell you a lie? I know that this Book of Mormon was translated by the gift and power of God. My eyes saw, my ears heard, and my understanding was touched. I know that whereof I testified is true. It was no dream, no vain imagination of the mind. It was real.’ I think this was recorded two or three months before Oliver passed away. And he says, he doesn’t have any reason to lie at this point. In fact, he wants to tell the truth because he knows he’s about to meet his Maker. And he still bears his testimony on the Book of Mormon.” 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 Episode sponsor: Serve Clothing https://serveclothing.com/?gad_source=1
Rob was raised in a polygamist group. As he got older he inquired of God what the right thing to do was, and he was led to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“I went on a three -day fast like I did when I needed to find answers and on the third morning of the fast I woke up. It was a Sunday morning, I just told the Lord ‘I’m not getting up off my knees until you give me an answer.’ I asked him because my uncle Owen, he was my dad’s brother, was put in charge of the group after my dad was killed. I asked Heavenly Father if he was the prophet here on the earth or if he wasn’t the prophet. I was shown a vision of a field, it was dark at night and my uncle Owen was wandering through the field. He had a dark suit on and his countenance was dark and then the voice of the Lord came into my mind and He said, ‘by their fruit ye shall know them.’ Then I started thinking about all the things that he had done throughout his life and things that were not always the greatest or the best. He had five or six wives and he was living polygamy. He had done some things that I didn’t think were very noble or right. I kind of pondered about that for a little bit. Then I prayed again and asked if President Gordon B. Hinckley, who was the LDS church president at the time in 1997, if he was the prophet here on the earth. I was shown the same field only it was noon day, it was bright and sunny and there was wheat blowing in the wind. President Hinckley walked out into the field and he had a white suit on and a white tie and shirt and his face was just glowing and I had the same voice come into my head, ‘by their fruits you shall know them.’ I was shown the things that President Hinckley had done and everything that I was shown was all good fruits. I just had this burning in my bosom and was on fire from the top of my head to my feet. This was right. He was the prophet here on the earth. And the Lord was giving me that answer. I’d never felt anything so wonderful in my life.” 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
A mother/daughter duo – Laura and Chelsea share their journey as Laura returns to the church after watching her daughter, Chelsea, convert.
“I just had the desire. I thought in order to be baptized, that I had to know everything about the religion. Just like I told her “You gotta know, you better know.” So I wasn’t planning on getting baptized so quickly until I read Alma 32:27. It says you just have to have a desire and God will do the rest. And I was like, I have a desire, I really do. I have felt so good about this. I’ve been going from summertime until April. I decided to start reading the Book of Mormon in January so by April I was devouring it. I was mind blown by all of the truths. I couldn’t believe it. I love the Book of Mormon. It’s amazing! It’s so relatable, you know, to your life. You can just see yourself.” 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
David Alexander grew up Christian but found most faiths to be unfulfilling. After searching for 47 years he found the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and was baptized.
“From then on, I’d listen to Conference talks. I’d been studying the Bible and just trying to sort everything out. All these bombs would be going off in my heart — where everything that I’d learned for 47 years just melted seamlessly into the Restoration. It’s just the most amazing thing, beyond human understanding as far as I’m concerned. It’s like a class triple A miracle! I haven’t even scratched the surface of the vastness of the Restoration! As soon as I really humbled myself it just began to open up to me. It still took me another two months after that before faith completely came to me and I heard powerfully and definitively in my heart that the Book of Mormon is the Word of God and that Joseph Smith truly was a prophet of God.” – https://www.youtube.com/@davidmalvinalexander – 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
Matt shares his struggles of overcoming rejection when he converted to the church as a young adult, as well as overcoming challenging things he since learned within church history.
“I may be crazy, but I’m not crazy because I joined the church. It is one of the few good decisions that I have made in my life. I have investigated everything I can find about the church. I’ve read every negative publication that is noteworthy, I’ve listened to people share their exit stories. The only reason that I am here is because it is true. The reason I know it is true is because of the experiences that I have had. I hope if someone is thinking about coming back, just do it. Your life will be better, your posterity will thank you for making it through the hard times. I believe all the church’s truth claims. I am happy to be here and that I am still a member going to church.” 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
Mandy’s powerful conversion and how she found The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through the help of so many around her.
“I ran track so I would go on long runs out in the country by myself. On one run I had stopped to walk for a little bit and I could feel God’s presence. I just knew God was trying to say something to me. I felt that He knew me and that He loved me, and that He had a plan for me. There were going to be some scary things that He was going to ask me to do, but I just had to face my fears and if I did I would find out that He was bigger than anything I was afraid of.” – Recommended book: The Uses of Adversity, by Carlfred Broderick – 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