This is Ashley Stone and you reached out to me with

your story and gave me kind of a synopsis over email and I was just so moved by your story.

It's like I said it's a story that people really need to hear and I think that it's just so powerful.

So I'm going to just kind of let you go for it and just tell your story from you know from the beginning and

towards the end I'll ask you a couple questions and we'll go from there

Okay, sounds good

So Okay, sounds good. Um, so I, I guess I'll start at the very beginning. I am a convert to the church. When I grew up, my family was not religious. We didn't go to church. It was not a thing at all.

When I was in my freshman year of high school,

I had a friend who,

I don't remember exactly how it came up

because she talked about being Mormon, and I like what is that I have never heard of this I don't know anything about it

I think somebody had actually made fun of her and like picked on her about it and I was like I don't understand why these people are doing this like what is what's the deal with this and she her name is Tiffany she

invited me to church and I don't know why I was just so like yes I want to see

what this is all about and the first time I went to see what this is all about.

And the first time I went to church

actually wasn't like a sacrament meeting.

I went to seminary, early morning seminary.

She was like, oh, we go every morning at 5.30 in the morning.

And then you can come on Sunday if you want.

And I remember I had a couple of friends

that I had like dragged with me. Because was like I don't know what this is about and it's

really early in the morning and I don't want to go alone and I remember my friends were so mad at

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