Welcome to This Is the Gospel, an 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 Lay.

I really believe that there's a first time for everything and the strangest thing happened

when we were searching for stories for this episode.

Our producers separately contacted storytellers and booked the recordings only to discover

that the stories were extraordinarily similar in some ways.

Now normally if that happens, any good episode producer worth their salt will call someone

and cancel or postpone and reassign it to another theme.

We really try hard to find diverse stories around that theme to illustrate the many, many

ways that a principle of discipleship can actually play out for individuals.

But for some reason, it just didn't seem right to do that to either storytellers.

So we went back and forth and back and forth for at least a week before the recordings.

And in the end, we just knew that we needed both stories and that they needed to be in

the same episode.

And now that they're recorded and I've had some time to think about it, I actually, I have

a pretty good idea of why it happened.

But you're going to have to listen to the stories before I share my hypothesis.

And here's a quick note for sensitive listeners.

Although the stories are told very carefully, there are some traumatic events that are integral

to the story plot.

Our first story comes from Sarah who needed to do the right thing even though that right

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