Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by me, Richard Osler.

My guest on today's podcast is a returning guest.

He was on episode 833 that was roughly released five to six months before this episode, my friend Isaac's Durfee,

welcome to the podcast, Isaac.

Hello.

How's it going?

We're glad to have you here.

Isaac in his earlier episode, and we'll link to it in the show notes.

It's episode 833, and I'll just read from that episode because a lot of that is who Isaac is

today, obviously. He lives in Utah County. He's age 34, maybe 35 by now. He's adopted. He's an active

Latter-day Saint. He's gay. He's black. And in that podcast, he shared really brave and vulnerable stuff like being bullied, being suicidal, working through pornography, convicted of being a sex offender and spending four and a half years in prison, leaving prison, what he learned, why he isn't going back and finding hope, accepting he's gay, but that doesn't define him.

Talented musician, really great supportive parents, role of friends to help him feel loved

and needed, great YSA awards, and his hope for his future.

So he may touch on some of those same subjects in this episode listeners, but that was just a

terrific episode of Isaac being so brave and vulnerable, just being honest with his life experience,

who he is and the journeys he's been on in his role to stay in the church and have hope

and believe in Christ and move forward in his life.

So Isaac, we'll all have

a prayer in our heart that you'll share things in your heart that will help our listeners and

we'll turn it over to you. Oh, well, thank you. Gosh, it can't believe it's, it can't believe

it's been that long. Well, to give everybody an update, um last time, I don't know if I mentioned that my parents

were going on a mission to Sydney, Australia.

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