Episode 737: Lily Prisbrey, Powerful Missionary Homecoming Talk

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

My friend Lily Prisbrey—who recently returned from both a proselyting mission (Philippines) and a service mission (Utah). She joins us to give her farewell talk. In this talk, Lily bravely talks about: Her journey with scrupulosity and faith-related guilt. Finding a loving, accepting, and NOT “ever-disappointed” God. Finding God in the Filipino people. Finding God through a Mission President who listened to doubts without judging and supported Lily’s decision to end her proselyting mission early. Finding God through failure. Inviting others to serve missions who don’t fit the mold. Lily concludes her talk with her powerful testimony of a loving God with 1 John 4: “God is love” and these words: “I am not a black and white, fit the mold, perfect kind of person. But I served as a missionary—and I hope that through what I’ve shared today—you all can see that if I can be a missionary, you can too”. We conclude with a discussion about her talk. Lily brings powerful insights into how to help everyone feel loved, accepted, and that there is room them. Lily is so brave and vulnerable—a sign of strength and discipleship that pattens how to help others feel welcome, safe, and needed. Thank you for being on the podcast Lily. I was so moved by your homecoming talk. Honored to provide a platform where more can hear your inspiring message. Links: Lily’s homecoming talk: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/to9a1bqw6btrihsj7dd67/Lily-Prisbrey-Homecoming-Talk-Feb-2024.pdf?rlkey=80xppy4jibj9np2kwjhyfob6e&dl=0

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:11.5	This year, 2024, I said I'd mostly do LGBTQ-focused podcast, but then sometimes I'm aware of a story that's not LGBTQ-focused, and I just feel like that story still needs to be on this platform.
0:24.8	And so that's one of these stories.
0:26.6	And the background for this story is my friend David Miller sent me the homecoming talk of his daughter, Sister Lily Prisbury.
0:38.1	And I read the talk, and I was just so deeply moved by her talk that I said to Brother Miller,
0:45.5	I said, do you think your granddaughter would give this talk on the podcast?
0:49.6	And he connected us together.
0:53.3	And Lily is now a return missionary and willing to give her
0:57.3	homecoming talk on the podcast and um lily's going to talk about serving in the philippines as a
1:03.5	proselyting missionary transitioning into a service missionary she's going to talk about
1:09.0	scrupulosity really important subject to this podcast
1:12.2	platform is addressed in the past. And she has this way of just saying how she found God's love
1:18.2	and all these experiences that was just so deeply moving to me. And so welcome to the podcast, Lily.
1:28.6	Thank you.
1:29.8	I'm so happy to be here.
1:31.6	This is like Homecoming Talk version too.
1:35.0	I know.
1:37.2	It's kind of terrifying, but exciting.
1:41.0	And so Lily lives in Fruit Heights.
1:43.8	She's preparing to go back to school in the fall. She's applying to a couple different Utah schools. She's the oldest of five. I've met your parents before. Jared and Rebecca, Prisbee, awesome human beings, awesome people that have raised a really remarkable daughter
2:03.7	and you.
2:05.1	And so I feel connected to kind of three generations of your family.
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