Amanda's journey overcoming her faith crisis and returning to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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"I just felt an overwhelming rush, a feeling of love that I had never in my whole life felt. It was a lot, it was a lot of feelings and I just collapsed to the floor, I just felt all the weight of everything that had been going on had been lifted and I felt wrapped up in love. I knew that God was telling me that I was doing the right thing and that I needed to take President Nelson seriously and I needed to be listening to his teachings. It is one of those things I still cling to on my bad days because the only way to describe that experience was a complete feeling of God's love."

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	Okay. Okay, Amanda, so excited to have you on the podcast. I think it's just really cool that we have all these connections behind the scenes.
0:22.8	You know my little sister, Ali,
0:24.4	and she's actually played a big part in me
0:27.4	getting this podcast started
0:28.9	because she's just really know, technical stuff.
0:33.4	And then I know your mom, which is so cool.
0:37.3	And your mom and my dad are really good friends.
0:40.9	So my dad, he's always talked so highly of your mom so
0:44.9	it's great she is great she is great she is great she is amazing power woman so
0:50.7	yeah but yeah I am so excited to hear your story. I think one of the cool
0:56.3	connections is that you work with the uplift community of faith with Leo who was
1:02.2	recently on the podcast and his
1:03.8	episode was so powerful. So I'd love to hear a little bit about you, kind of what
1:08.8	your involvement is in uplift community of faith and then just a little bit of
1:12.4	background on you.
1:14.2	Okay, all right. So my name is Amanda Freibaran. I live in Mesa and I grew up in southern Utah.
1:23.0	I'm married, I've been married for about seven or eight years and I have three children.
1:29.0	Like you said, I work with Leo Weineger and a really great team in a Facebook faith crisis support group called
1:39.0	Uplift Community of Faith. So I do a lot of kind of the back end stuff admitting people into the group and
1:48.0	posting posts and that sort of thing but it's a group that as Leo talked about a couple weeks ago, really kind of tries to find a sweet spot between like being able to welcome people's questions and struggles and frustrations without allowing a lot of the distracting
2:06.5	like anger and noise so that as people work through those questions they can do that with the spirit have an environment like
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