Julie's journey, her inspiring testimony of covenants, and coming back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

"I had to put all of my doubts and all of my fears and all of my anxiety and frustrations on a sacrificial table, and say these stay here and I want the blessings more. So that's what I did, and I met with the bishop and the stake president. That Thursday I went to the temple and the following week the temples were shut down. It was so significant to me how many steps had to be completed and in place in order for my heart to be ready to do that. It was a huge step and something that I never thought I would do...When things were dark and it was hard, to have those extra covenants and blessings were really important to me. There was no accident that it happened the way that it did."

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.
0:07.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to the comeback podcast. My name is Lauren Rose. I'm your
0:18.7	host today. Ashley is under the weather. So we are interviewing Julie today
0:26.1	and she has a really incredible story
0:28.0	and we're really excited to share it with you.
0:29.6	So Julie, why don't you go ahead and kind of tell us
0:32.0	about your early years in the church and then just kind of take us on your journey with you?
0:36.7	Great. So I grew up in the church in Utah and I loved going to church. I loved everything they taught and I just I love the songs I love primary I loved everything about it and it just really spoke to my heart.
0:55.0	And so I never really question myself or question what I believed. it was just, it always just felt true.
1:06.2	And so then in about 2016, I was 39,
1:21.6	I was turning 40 and I wasn't sleeping well I just really felt like there was something
1:24.2	I was supposed to do. I had four kids at home and I was trying to be the best mom I could,
1:29.0	but I just really felt like there was something else for me. And so I went into therapy just for me just to get some peace and get some answers. And so the first thing that he said,
1:43.7	because I gave him a laundry list of all the things
1:45.9	that was going wrong in my life,
1:47.8	and he said, well, what do you dream about?
1:51.4	And I said, what does that have to do with anything? And he said, what do you dream about? And I said, what does that have to do with anything? And he said, what do you dream about? And I was like, I don't know. I don't even know what I like. I don't even know who I am. And so I kind of just started exploring
2:07.9	what I what did I like. I went to a restaurant and by myself, which I would never do before.
2:14.7	Or I, and I did, I started beginning to dream.
2:19.8	And some of these dreams were really powerful. And one of these dreams were really powerful.
2:23.3	And one of them was about going to school.
2:27.6	One of them was about teaching, teaching music,
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