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June 30, 2024

Growing up Emily was a wild child, as she got older she noticed a pervasive darkness in her life. Learn what happens as she gets on her knees and turns her life back over to Christ.

“I just called out to Heavenly Father and said, help. I was very aware that there were angels all around me protecting me, I knew that Heavenly Father was rescuing me. He was hearing my prayer and that black feeling immediately was replaced with warmth, and love, and total mercy. It was like, I’ve been waiting for you, I got you. And I just was totally honest with Him and I told Him everything that I needed to say. I told him ‘I’m so insecure. I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know who to be. I don’t know how to commit to being a good girl. I don’t know what that looks like. I’m attracted to all of these things that I don’t know how to reconcile.’ I just didn’t know what to do next, but I knew that I couldn’t continue in that life that I was in. I was so honest and submissive and just like, I’m gonna give this all to you and you help me figure out what to do next. And it was beautiful, it was amazing, it was the most sacred thing that’s ever happened in my life. Then I felt like I should go see a bishop.”

 

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“I just called out to Heavenly Father and said, help. I was very aware that there were angels all around me protecting me, I knew that Heavenly Father was rescuing me. He was hearing my prayer and that black feeling immediately was replaced with warmth, and love, and total mercy. It was like, I’ve been waiting for you, I got you. And I just was totally honest with Him and I told Him everything that I needed to say. I told him ‘I’m so insecure. I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know who to be. I don’t know how to commit to being a good girl. I don’t know what that looks like. I’m attracted to all of these things that I don’t know how to reconcile.’ I just didn’t know what to do next, but I knew that I couldn’t continue in that life that I was in. I was so honest and submissive and just like, I’m gonna give this all to you and you help me figure out what to do next. And it was beautiful, it was amazing, it was the most sacred thing that’s ever happened in my life. Then I felt like I should go see a bishop.”
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