Cheryl Hill shares her inspirational story of overcoming adversity and coming back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains sensitive content that may be triggering or offensive to some audiences. Parental discretion is advised.

"Let me tell you something Ashly, one of the most painful, soul ripping things that happened to me, was the day I took off my garments. I can’t even begin to tell you… did I have a testimony? Apparently I did. Because, when I took those garments off, and I still have the picture in my head of those garments laying in a heap on the floor. When I took them off I knew I wasn’t going to put them back on."

After being sexually abused as a child, Cheryl dealt with many trials in her younger years. Eventually she left the church, and grew to hate it.

Cheryl experienced many small miracles that pushed her back to the church.

This is her story of coming back.

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	I am so excited to have you on my podcast. I listened to your
0:19.4	podcast with Papa Osler many months ago and it was so powerful to me. I think it was actually the first
0:27.3	podcast that I listened to from Papa Osler and it was so inspiring to me. Like I sent it to my husband and I just, it was so amazing and I feel like I'm meeting a celebrity
0:40.3	interviewing you because you're just, you're so just awesome and so funny. I do have bands in other other states. We bought another one here from you Shoss. So tell me a little bit about your you know
0:53.4	childhood days with your your first kind of experiences with the church
0:58.6	did you have a testimony at an early age did you not what that looked like and, you know, early church experience.
1:06.2	Okay, so let's start.
1:10.0	So I was adopted when I was seven.
1:11.8	My original parents were drug addicts.
1:14.7	And so the heels adopted me.
1:17.1	And that was, I think I was in foster care for a year.
1:20.2	And then my dad is like Utah Mormon like pioneer one of the first pioneers to come across the valley with Brigham Young and like he's he's on the statue the heritage place whatever it's called.
1:32.0	Wow.
1:33.4	So anyway, so we're like so Mormon, so
1:36.8	LDS or whatever you want to use these days.
1:39.2	So of course I started going to church immediately.
1:42.2	I wasn't excited about it. It just seemed like another thing I had to do that had
1:49.4	nothing to do with getting back to my mother. Because my mother was present back and forth.
1:56.6	And then when they put me in foster care
1:58.5	at this year again after that.
2:00.1	And so it was kind of angry already.
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