This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.

We We are back with another episode of the comeback podcast.

Episode 2. I can't believe it. Made it here. I think maybe that I'm doing episode 2. That means I'm an actual

podcaster now. I don't know. I'm here with my husband Jesse Stone.

Hello, hello.

And Jesse, I'm excited to have him on as my second guest because Jesse has a if you listen to

episode one Jesse has a similar pass to mine and a similar experience with coming back to the church.

And I'm excited to have him share his story.

We align so much on so many different principles and just with

what we've been through I think it's really you know it's the core thing that anchors our marriage and our testimony and it's pretty

cool to be buried to somebody that has a similar experience and whose testimony is founded on similar experiences and so just

excited to have my cute husband joined today. I'm excited to be here. They're so blessed.

Jesse is actually the one that really cheered me on and getting this podcast going.

It was an idea of mine for a long time and I felt, I don't know, like I had so much going on, I work full time, I'm a mom, you know, and with everything else that I have going on, I just was like, oh, I don't know, but he really encouraged me to follow my prompting to do this podcast and I'm grateful that he did that. So I want to start out with

what was your testimony like growing up? What was what was it like for you as a kid? I know your parents, they're, you know, members of the church. They raised you really well, you know, in the gospel and did you have a strong testimony growing up?

Yeah, so growing up, I remember those awful early mornings and late nights when my mom and dad would bring us together as a family and have us do scripture study. It was painful as a young kid.

I don't really remember having a joy for some of the fundamentals of the gospel, reading the scriptures, going to church

was tough. It was always hard. I wanted to be out playing baseball or

skateboarding or riding my bike and and it was tough as a youth like I'm sure a lot of us a lot of you out there can relate.

However, the one thing that I remember going back,

about as far as I can remember. I have always

Always felt a closeness to Jesus Christ. Always. I don't remember a time in my life where I didn't feel, and I emphasize the word feel because I'm not the most intellectual person.

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