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Welcome to This is the Gospel and LDS Living Podcast where we feature real stories from real people

who are practicing and living their faith every day. I'm your host, Corinne Lee.

When I was living in South Korea, the branch I attended was part of the US military district

and in my second year of teaching, I got a calling to be the young single adult representative

for the whole district, which meant that I was often required to travel from my little corner of

soul to all the other branches. And a lot of those were located on American military bases.

This was just as much a culture shock to me as my new life in an Asian country. I mean,

I didn't grow up in a military family and my dad had served in the Air Force, but it was long

before I was born. And by the time I was even old enough to know what the Air Force was, his

crewcut was replaced by a respectable 80s rock star mullet and a Tom Selleck mustache.

So to say that I knew very little about military life was a total understatement.

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