It's not wrong to have doubts. It's not weird to have doubts. It's very normal. I think it's very healthy for your faith.

I would encourage you that there is something happening beneath the doubt. It's not it's not

static and I think you'll see it kind of once you're out of this place however long

that takes.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast.

Today we speak with Andrea Locato, a writer from Austin, Texas.

Andrea describes what it was like to come from a family with a strong heritage of Christian

faith only to find it tested when she ventured out on her own.

My name is Andrea Lucato, and I am a writer based in Austin, Texas. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas. I was a

pastor's daughter. My ex-Locato is my dad and he was the pastor and is the pastor at Oak Hills Church in St Antonio, Texas.

My parents were actually missionaries in Brazil and so I was born on the mission field and I was there for only 18 months so I don't

remember it my older sister does have some memories from it.

But I feel like I really grew up in church. I remember the church building as well as I remember my childhood home.

They were kind of interchangeable to me and I loved parts of being a pastor's kid and didn't love other parts but church was

definitely a big part of my life and kind of the people that I knew at church were

sort of an extension of my own family too, which was really a beautiful thing.

I did a study abroad program as an undergrad, which I always knew I wanted to do.

I think because my parents spent five years living in Brazil that kind of opened

their eyes to travel and the importance of kind of seeing the world so we would

usually take a trip as a family every few years to somewhere to a

different country or at least somewhere else in the US maybe like the Northeast and

that kind of put the travel bug in me so I studied abroad for a semester and while I was there I heard

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