Jr. Taimi - From Gangs & Prison, to Baptism & Temple Covenants

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jr. Taimi's life was drugs and gangs when he was just a kid. He was incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit, lost his mom while he was in prison, and experienced many other heartbreaking tragedies.

After coming home from prison, he was at the dinner table with his family and his daughter said a prayer that would change the course of his life. He knew that wherever she learned to pray like that was somewhere he wanted to be.

Jr. met with the missionaries and debated the church's teachings with them. When he learned about eternal families, and gained the knowledge that he could see his mom again, he knew he wanted to be baptized and 3 years later, he and his wife Asia were sealed in the temple.

They now run a group home in St. George, UT, & give back to kids who struggle. They say the difference in their program, is that they treat everyone who enters like children of God.

Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia

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0:00.0	This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast. We are here with the timies and we've got Asia and we've got Junior and I don't
0:20.4	really know a whole lot about your story I know high level just you know the
0:24.2	legendary pieces of that I've heard through the legendary pieces it's been a while you
0:30.8	might not have to be played. You know about those legendary pieces.
0:34.0	Yes, yes.
0:36.0	I want to start from the beginning.
0:38.0	Like, where were you raised?
0:40.0	What was your childhood like?
0:42.0	What, you know, teenage teenage years what was that like well I was raised in
0:46.5	Long Beach California and I was born in 19 I was born in 81, so growing up, we lived on the east side of Longby, so anybody who knows
0:57.0	the east of Longby to around the 80s, you know, it was very gang infested, you know,
1:01.2	but to work as an oil refinery. Yeah, and he met my mom there, you know, and he met my mom in Long Beach and they had kids and that's how we were becoming born and raised in Long Beach, California.
1:13.2	And so growing up there, it was very rough, you know.
1:16.6	It was all they could afford.
1:18.6	We, you know, we weren't rich, so we came from a drug-infested gang-infested area where you know it wasn't a place
1:27.6	for kids to grow up you know it was very very sad you know you you see everything on the streets like literally out in front of you
1:34.8	nowadays they clean up the streets people think that it's worse to hear you know now but then
1:39.0	it was in your face you go outside and we grew up with my mom and my pops and what was your release your
1:45.0	face with my mom and my pops and uh... What was your relationship with your parents like?
1:46.0	Do you feel like they tried to, you know?
1:49.0	They did their best but you know like I feel like you know looking back now it was a barrier you know like a
1:56.0	language barrier a culture barrier you know they came from the Polynesian islands where in the
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