This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast. Hey, yeah. Well, I'm Chandler, Chandler Barrett, obviously. I am from Baltimore originally. That's my city. I love it there. I live in Maryland right now. I am a legal assistant. I work at my local courthouse and right now I am, well, I am hopefully getting married soon here.

We're, me and my lovely girlfriend, Elena, and just kind of I just got my own place.

And so right now I'm just, you know, working and living life, you know, so. Awesome.

So how did you meet Elena?

So it's interesting.

I always kind of like to think,

I kind of missed, I kind of missed I kind of got put her in my path so many times and I just

missed her so finally I went up I had to go up to her where so she we met my YSA branch and I had just approached her and

like hey like I'm Chandler and we really hit it off and then I asked her out. I actually I've gotten a job as a legal assistant a few months ago back in July and I had texted there and was like hey like we should like celebrate and yeah the rest is history so so let's hear let's hear the story I want to hear from the

beginning you know what your background in the church and then you know what kind of led to you're leaving and then

the whole thing, let's hear it all.

Absolutely, yeah.

So let me think, where to start.

So I kind of, I guess it sort of starts before I was born with my parents.

So my parents are both converts. They, so my mom and my dad are like probably two of the strongest members that I know.

He has, you know, again, like didn't grow up religious. my mom did and then they met when they were in college and

dated for two years I think and then they'd broken up. In that time period, my mom joined the church, right?

She joined the church in Florida

and was married to a member who, you know,

she ended up splitting from and getting divorced

and then moving up to

Philadelphia so her and my dad got back together and my my dad you know absolutely he loved my mom, but like my mom is I, you know, if you're gonna, if you're gonna get back with me, if we're gonna be together, I would like you to join the church church and at least speak with these missionaries.

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