Welcome to This Is The Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from

real people who are practicing and living their faith every day.

I'm your host, Corinne Le.

Today's story is really nothing short of miraculous.

Last year, when Al Omoly used 140 characters at a time to tweet the unexpected blessing

of how his family came to be, he and his wife Ashlai,

had no idea that that Twitter thread would be picked up by several media outlets, including

the Today Show and LDS Living.

The subsequent video of their experience and testimony has now reached over 2 million

people across continents.

Today, we get to share the rest of the story, from the perspectives of Al O and Ashlai,

as well as their adopted daughter, Brittany.

As you hear the surprising ways that their lives were intertwined, you'll see that it was

surely all part of a loving father in heaven's plan.

The story starts with Brittany.

So I lived with my biological parents for the first 16 years of my life.

I was the caregiver for pretty much all of the five siblings.

From the time I was 12 when my little brother, G.T. was born, I was always the one that they

came to to give them food to change his diaper to be his mom, I guess, when I was 12.

And then I remember when I was 15, my other little brother, TIE, was born and that's when

it kind of like got kicked up a notch, but I was 15.

I mean, I was in high school.

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