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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 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 Jack and is titled, My Advice.

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. All right, ready, set.

All right, go ahead.

Music is my hobby and my passion.

Although I've never done it professionally,

music has always been a huge part of my personality.

I've played in numerous bands, performed in concerts, and written my own music since I was about 12 years old.

As a member of the church, I've had different struggles with faith

throughout my life and even though I've had questions that I couldn't answer I

chose to continue to believe. However in my mid-20, I came to a turning point. I started studying as much as I could about the church and about the gospel, and came to the realization that I didn't actually believe what was being taught.

Unfortunately, I was also at a point in my life where I had met the girl I was going to marry,

and leaving the church was pretty much out of the question.

The struggle of pretending to believe in something that I didn't actually believe and

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