Episode 430: Lincoln Bagley, RM, Home for Worthiness, Faith Crisis, Back Out, Finished Strong

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

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4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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My friend Lincoln Bagley bravely shares his unique mission (Peru, home for a year, Utah, Peru and Colorado) which covered three years from his call to returning home in May 2021. Lincoln talks about being sent home from his mission because of prior worthiness and a difficult experience his Mission President, feeling his was going to leave the church because “could not measure up”, being home for a year where he grieved and then healed, serving again about being assigned to Utah where he got treatment for scrupulosity, going to Peru and then reassigned to Colorado when Peru closed with Covid. Lincoln talks about healing from a difficult leader experience, deconstructing and then reconstructing his testimony, why he stays a member of the Church, the unique way he served the people of Colorado and his outreach to marginalized members of the Church. You can read more of Lincoln’s story here: https://www.facebook.com/100044382798931/posts/215979476558144/ https://www.facebook.com/100044382798931/posts/277993347023423/ I’m grateful for Lincoln for the courage to share his story and all the good he did on his mission. It is people like Lincoln that give me hope for the future our Church and world. Thank you Lincoln for being on the podcast and for being you!

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.1	My friend joining me from Jackson Hole, Wyoming via Zoom is Lincoln Bagley.
0:15.4	Welcome to the podcast, Lincoln.
0:17.7	Thank you. I appreciate it.
0:19.7	I'll give you a little introduction like I do with my guest. Lincoln is a new
0:24.4	return missionary with a very unique mission experience. He returned in May of 2021, but three years ago.
0:34.0	He opened his call in May of 2018 to Peru.
0:45.1	And he served in Peru for four months, and then he came home for a year to work through repentance.
0:53.4	And then he served for four months in Utah, went back to three to four months in Peru, and then COVID hit.
0:56.6	And in April of 2020, he took one of those charter flights out of Peru.
0:58.7	He was home for 30 days and then he spent his last roughly year of his mission in Denver,
1:04.6	Colorado North Mission, I believe.
1:07.2	Yes, sir.
1:07.7	And so I assume if we had Lincoln on the podcast the night he'd opened up his mission
1:13.7	call, and then what happened over the three years is just unexplainable in some ways. And so
1:21.0	as I've read some of Lincoln's Facebook posts and some of his story, and as we've visited
1:26.2	beforehand, Lincoln is a really unique and wonderful man.
1:30.3	And he's going to talk to those of you that come home early from your mission for any reason because he has great empathy and great understanding.
1:39.3	And if you feel no one's ever had the experience that you're having or you want better tools to minister to someone who's come home
1:47.4	for a belated confession, probably, that happened before he left,
1:52.3	you know, Lincoln, without getting in a lot of the details,
1:54.7	probably has some insights for you.
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