Darkness, addiction & a priesthood blessing – how God pulled Steven back to the light
“ When you change your focus and you have a purpose and you have Him cheering you on and you can hear it- I mean, it makes a world of difference.” 00:00 Numb and Lost 05:22 High School Rebellion 07:22 Rock Bottom and Drugs 09:19 Blessing and Turning Point 17:25 Cravings And Support 22:11 Advice For Worried Parents 27:41 Joy After Sobriety 29:35 Made New In Christ Memor Jewelry code COMEBACK for 10% off https://memorjewelry.com/ Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing.com/ If you have a story to share please fill out the form: https://form.jotform.com/233109071625046 For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Raised in a Catholic and LDS home – Why Lindsey chose The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for herself
“I feel like if we could just look around to the people in our communities and the people that that need us, it takes away like the I factor and it becomes we. And as soon as you do that, no matter where you’re at in your life, whether you’re a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whether you’re Catholic, whether you’re agnostic, as soon as you look out to others and find a way to help people, you can’t help but feel the Spirit.” 00:00 Too Much Pressure 05:00 Two Faiths At Home 06:13 Mom’s Faithful Example 12:03 Catholic Confirmation Interview 16:05 Truth In Other Religions 20:05 Parents And Mixed Faith Marriage 23:45 Foster Care And Service Mindset Shift 31:35 Final Testimony And Farewell Memor Jewelry code COMEBACK for 10% off https://memorjewelry.com/ Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing.com/ If you have a story to share please fill out the form: https://form.jotform.com/233109071625046 For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
From prison to redemption: How the prayers of Alan’s faithful mother led him back to Jesus Christ
“ The moment I stepped out of that Bishop’s office, those cravings were gone. I went through three rehabs in my lifetime. I would go to AA meetings. When I got clean, I hated going to the meetings because they just made me feel guilty. Like you have this disease you’re gonna carry with you the rest of your life. Well I don’t. The Savior took that from me. He took it from me, and I don’t have to worry.” 00:00 Struggling with Guilt 04:11 Teenage Rebellion and First Experiences with Drugs 10:05 Post-Mission Struggles and First Marriage 11:40 Descent into Addiction and Legal Troubles 27:43 Reuniting with Family After Prison 31:27 Starting the Repentance Process 35:50 Finding Love and Building a Family 39:16 Reflecting on Transformation Memor Jewelry code COMEBACK for 10% off https://memorjewelry.com/ Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing.com/ If you have a story to share please fill out the form: https://form.jotform.com/233109071625046 For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Brittany never felt the Spirit and left the LDS church, but God never forgot her and brought her back
“I’m no longer scared to go to the temple after reading the Book of Mormon and knowing what it means… It has just been so many tender mercies since coming back. I’ll never go back to that place I was before. I’ll never let my family go back to that place before. And I know a hundred percent Heavenly Father put the Browns in Chloe’s life knowing that that was how he was gonna get to me. And I know that prayer and priesthood is the biggest part of all that, and I’m so thankful.” 00:00 A Troubling Temple Experience 09:23 Disconnect from the Church 14:47 Reconnecting with My Father 18:58 Chloe’s Baptism and Its Impact 28:53 Breaking Down and Seeking Help 31:58 A Life-Changing Blessing 41:20 Temple Work and Family Connections Cozy Earth code COMEBACK for 40% off https://cozyearth.com/ Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing.com/ Memor Jewelry code COMEBACK for 10% off https://memorjewelry.com/ If you have a story to share please contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
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: info.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 Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
LIVE EPISODE WITH BAILEY
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains sensitive content that may be triggering or offensive to some audiences. Parental discretion is advised. “ Reading the Book of Mormon that week, I really sat down and actually studied the words of the Book of Mormon, and it was powerful. It was so powerful. It was undeniable. And I had been reading about how this genius farmer, right, we always were like, ‘He’s such a genius. That’s how you get away with it,’ wrote this book out of nowhere. And as I’m reading it, I’m just like, there is no way. There is no way. I remember so many scriptures, I couldn’t get enough because there were so many things, and it just felt like God was just waiting for me to open the door and He would just feed me, you know. Like I was starving and He would just feed me.” Come Back Team Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Cara Reed Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Episode sponsor: Brick House Recovery
Raised by hippies and shaken by anti-Mormon views, Amber shares the miracles that strengthened her.
“So here I am just one after another. I was smart enough to recognize Satan should have been a little more subtle because this was way too obvious. It was clear that I was under attack and especially that my husband had just been called to be bishop. I’m like, okay. So I had enough wisdom to step back and recognize that. It still didn’t take away from the fact that I cried myself to sleep every night. I didn’t know the answers to all this information that I had been overwhelmed with. And my husband could answer some of it, but not all of it. He was a new bishop and I just didn’t know what to do. For the first time, my faith was really shaken.” – Amber’s Hope Smiling Brightly podcast: – Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Cara Reed Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Episode Sponsor: Brick House Recovery https://brickhouserecovery.com/
Nia was single and pregnant in the Church. How her struggles brought her closer to Jesus Christ.
“Don’t put blame on anyone else. If you’ve done things that are wrong, fix them. If things have been done to you that are wrong, forgive them. Which is so hard to do, depending on the situation. I’ve had to do that with people in my past. it’s the most liberating thing that you can do to let go of that hate and let go of blaming them. Because you can blame them all you want, but it’s not going to allow you to progress. And so be honest with yourself. Be honest with what you need to change and take back your power. You have all the power in the world. God has given you this free agency. You can do whatever you want with it. Why not do something amazing that brings you so much joy and happiness? And it’s so liberating to let go of what everyone thinks about you. It’s so liberating. I literally do whatever the heck I want, which happens to be living the gospel. And living the gospel and living the standards of the gospel has made me the most free person I’ve ever been in my life.” https://mikesautoshack.com/ Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Cara Reed Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Episode sponsor: Serve Clothing https://serveclothing.com/?gad_source=1
Jason’s testimony of how the Power of Christ’s Atonement changed him from a homeless addict to running successful rehabs.
“I had an experience laying in my bed where I asked God to help me to know His will for me. I then had a powerful experience where I felt water rush off my body as I was coming up out of these waters. Then I see one of my very best friends’ faces pulling me up and he’s in white. It was that experience where I understood that God would like me to consider being rebaptized. I had a long road until that point. I hadn’t even been excommunicated yet. So when I was asked in the disciplinary council, ‘what do you think, Jason?’ I said, I wanted a fresh start where I could finally forgive myself for all the things that I have experienced and done. Through the ordinance of baptism — I feel like if I can go through that experience I would be able to forgive myself. Where maybe just a disciplinary counsel and a probation, being less extreme, I would have missed going through that and burying that old guy and to symbolically start fresh. And I had some beautiful, beautiful, powerful experiences.” – Jason’s Business: https://brickhouserecovery.com/ Jason’s book “Unhooked” https://a.co/d/cSqfNCI – Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Art Director: Jeremy Garcia
Mary’s experiences coming home early from her mission, getting divorced, and searching for answers.
“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 Art Director: Jeremy Garcia