Welcome, my friends, to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love.

I'm your host, Richard Osler.

I felt impressed to do a solo podcast focused on chapter five of my book called Improving Latter-day Saint Culture.

It's under the Listen, Learn, and Love brand.

It's a book that it's available as Amazon as well as Desireate book.

But chapter five of hope-filled repentance, and I just felt impressed to kind of read this chapter and add some additional thoughts for you, our listeners.

The goal of this podcast is to reach those of you that want to repent and just need more hope in that process. It's also written to local leaders, especially

bishops that are wanting other tools and additional insight to help people through the

repentance process.

This is probably geared a little bit more to single Latter-day Saints,

although the principles obviously apply to married Latter-day Saints going through the repentance

process.

I want, if you skip a little bit of the podcast, please listen to probably at about the halfway point where I talk about the prodigal son.

That's the most tender scripture for me, parable for me, and I hope you take a moment to listen to that.

In the show notes, I'll link to this book in case you want to buy the whole book and get the footnotes to this chapter that I'm referencing.

I'll also link to an Ensign article I wrote that's the foundation for this chapter.

And that Ensign article is how the Savior's Healing Power applies to repenting from sexual sins, and that's in the August 2020 Young Adults Digital Section.

So I'll just begin.

Pull up a seat or wherever you are, and I just pray that the spirit will touch you as we talk about hope-filled

repentance.

One of my greatest honors during my WISA service as a bishop was to facilitate the repentance

and forgiveness processes.

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