Leo: Coming back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after extensively studying anti-Mormon propaganda.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Leo started to grapple with his faith when he started uncovering information about church history that he had never heard before. It sent him down a rabbit hole of information that caused him to question everything he had ever been taught. A series of miraculous events pushed Leo back to the church, he couldn't deny God's hand in his life. Leo is back as a fully active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He uses his experience to help others stay on the covenant path with his non-profit called Uplift Community of Faith. One of the most powerful moments of the podcast episode was when I asked Leo if he has any doubts or concerns that still bother him, to which he simply replied - no.

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	Leo. Leo I am so excited to have you on the podcast. Yeah, so why don't you go ahead and start and tell us a little bit about you and all the things.
0:26.6	Yeah, it's nice to be with you, Ashley. I guess I've got a long story. We'll try to keep it within I guess the time frame that we have.
0:37.1	But my story starts with just pretty much like every other member of the church that's raised in a traditional home.
0:44.6	I was raised in Utah, Salt Lake and also bountiful.
0:49.4	And grew up in a very strong ward with parents who loved me and loved the gospel.
0:56.0	And it was just a really nice way to grow up in the church with a lot of friends that were good kids and had a lot of good influences.
1:05.0	I was checking all the boxes, you know, as a young man, I did scouting and served my
1:12.0	colleagues and leadership before my mission.
1:15.0	And then my mission was awesome.
1:19.0	I had an opportunity to serve in Uruguay, South America and spoke Spanish and was very, the word I kept talking about my letters and to myself was intensity. I was an intense missionary. I worked my tail off. I testified with
1:37.5	you know very black and white. It's all or nothing language and I believed it with all my
1:42.4	heart and I believed it with all my heart and I knew it to be true.
1:46.0	That's kind of how I you could say that's the very traditional way of
1:50.4	describing of having a testimony is that I know.
1:54.0	And so I was set up for, you know, success in some ways, but in failure, for failure in other ways. The failure came was after I was at
2:08.0	BYU and married. My first child basically at that time was about 10 years ago now a little more than 10 years. I came
2:16.8	across some information on the internet on YouTube actually was a video that
2:22.4	popped up that was of the Mante pageant.
2:26.4	And it was some evangelical sisters who were all lined up with signs on their chest indicating that they were representing
2:34.7	different women who were married to Joseph Smith and they started talking
2:39.3	about their stories, their names and kind of like going through and explaining who they were.
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