This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast. So I was born into the church, born into the covenant, and actually I've chat about this on a few other podcast, but my life starts out with somewhat of like a miracle.

So I was, I was supposed to be like my due date was somewhere around Halloween, give or take a few days.

But my doctor, my mom's doctor had an impression to deliver me like three, four weeks early and just a spiritual impression and so he followed he followed through and

my parents trusted him and followed through on that and when when I was delivered I had the

court around my neck and there's a knot in it.

So it was both.

Yeah, right when I so I was near I was dying as I came out

and I'm really lucky to be alive.

So because of that, I think for me, like God has always just been an option, right?

He's never been off the table or too much of a logical leap to believe in God. So I've always just

grown up in my life believing in God and believing that for some reason that he decided to keep me here.

And so, yeah, I grew up in the church.

I wasn't, I was never the most active member of the church.

I would go just because my parents told me to I'd fight going to church and whatnot. But I remember once I got to once I got to ninth grade I saw a video on Facebook and this was right when the age change happened for the missionaries and so the local high school the seminary released a video of like a bunch of missionaries opening up their mission calls and it was like a montage video of

missionaries who were in the high school as well as just who graduated that last year.

And just like him behind it type thing.

And I was on the tennis team and my sister was also

at like a junior in high school,

so I knew a lot of those people in the videos.

And I just remember watching that video

and like seeing some of the people I knew

and people I looked up to.

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