Lauren Rose shares her experience of finding hope in returning to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

"When I came back to the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I was so humble and so broken.

I didn't go to the church just wanting it to be true.

I wanted to find the truth wherever it was, and I was willing to go anywhere to find it.

I didn't have an agenda. I wasn't searching for a church that fit with MY ideas - I had no ideas. I knew I was wrong.

I was genuinely searching for the truth and that is what made the difference for me.

I was like this sponge that was just soaking everything in.

I kept thinking about how different my family's lives would have been had we stayed in the church.

I was filled with regret.

I was also so freed, because I had so much hope.

Once I found out there was a God, everything changed and there was a light inside of me.

People could see it.

I was so genuinely happy." -Lauren

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	Okay! Okay, here we are. I'm so excited. So I'm here with Lauren Rose. Lauren and I go way back.
0:23.3	We have been, we've known each other since I was in sixth grade and you were in eighth grade?
0:29.1	Yes.
0:30.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:31.1	Um, Lauren's little sister, Haley, was one of my good friends growing up.
0:35.8	So we've known each other since then, but Lauren and I recently reconnected because we've both come back to the church. We, it's been cool to just have a friendship over you know but you just
0:49.3	happen to move in to my yeah it's like right behind them yeah and you started talking to them and then you
0:56.2	need the connection and since then like we just keep crossing paths yes and
1:00.8	now we're like neighbors after all that.
1:04.4	And I think that it's, I don't know, meant to be,
1:09.4	just because we, I think being without the gospel for an extended period of time it's like you
1:16.9	I mean this is my experience but I take it very seriously because I never want to
1:21.4	go back to the way that my life was before.
1:24.0	I was in such a dark place and I never want to risk going back there.
1:29.0	And so I take it very seriously if people know me, they're like,
1:32.0	oh my gosh Ashley is you know she
1:34.7	never wants to get in trouble she always wants to you know I just that's how I am
1:38.8	because I just never want to go back to I know yes I'm a Molly Mormon 100% and I'm Molly Mormon and
1:46.6	proud you know because I love it I am too I am too I can relate to all of that so yeah and I think that's kind of why we're just best friends right off the bat because just to value something like that and to go through what we've both been through.
2:04.3	It's like, I think we both understand like, you know, everybody has their experiences that bring
2:10.0	them closer to the gospel, but, you know, in our our case it's like we've been without it and so now we
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