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Listener Esser.

Listener Essie. Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. I'm Glenn Ostland and this is our November 2018

listener essay contest where you the listeners get to say what

you want to say how you want to say it where you want to say it and it is more than

a privilege that that way wear gets to be here.

That we get to host these on infants on thrones where so many of us are all infants sitting on different kinds of thrones, right?

Today's essay comes from Chris and is

title Believe Yourself. And after you listen, please go to our website and vote for

it and provide the author some personal feedback.

Winners will be announced in early December.

First place gets $200, second place $100 and third place 50 dollars.

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I suppose it's commonplace to give Mormon credentials so I'll start there.

Mine are weak at best, terrestrial to be exact. I'm only a 45 on Bob's Mormon Cred scale. Although I was born in the

covenant to Pioneer Stock and had an active family that would drag me to church weekly,

I'm not sure that I ever fully believed. I ran through most of the motions that

were expected of me. I attended mutual, did scouting, prayed from time to time, but had too many

questions without sufficient answers.

I eventually went inactive at some point during high school and didn't serve a mission,

opting for playing music instead.

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