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Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Warmest Stories Podcast.

I'm your host John Dilland, it's January 14th, 2020.

We're really excited to be back in the new calendar year broadcasting on Warmest Stories

Podcast.

This will be my third interview of the year.

For those of you who have been tuning in, we loved our interview with the Woodback family

earlier this week.

For those of you who started off the year at this, you'll know that we interviewed

thoughtful, sensitive, intelligent, some would say courageous man named Joe Tipitz, who

we did several hours covering Joe's sort of upbringing in the church and his going on

a mission and marrying in the temple.

But then we talked about Joe's faith crisis and him leaving the Mormon church and being

out of the church for between five and seven years to pay me depending on how you account.

And then how he felt like he was called by God to come back to church.

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