Mark shares what its like struggling with Type 1 Diabetes and his miraculous journey returning to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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"We went to visit a kid who wanted to serve a mission so his dad comes out and says "I haven't come to church because I'm too embarrassed to come to church. I drink, and I haven't had a job for a year." I got a burning in my bosom and that was the first time I had that, ever. So I knew I needed to speak up and I told him my story. We were standing outside in 26 degree weather teaching them lessons and I couldn't have felt warmer. That family started slowly coming back over the next few months and are now really strong in the gospel."

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	Mark. Mark, I am so excited to have you on the podcast. We'll just go ahead and jump right in if you're okay with that.
0:21.0	Yeah, that's fine. Okay, awesome.
0:24.0	So it was interesting because you shared your story with me and I shared it with Lauren who's my
0:30.9	producer and she responded to me because her sister has diabetes and it and she
0:39.1	has been really close with that her whole life and just a friend that her sister knows was really going
0:46.6	through a really hard time with it and so Lauren was like I can't believe this is
0:52.2	the story that you just sent me because this is something that's really been on my heart and on my mind and so it was just kind of a tender mercy for her and so it's just really cool that you reached out when you did.
1:04.4	And we're just so excited to have you on the podcast and to hear your story.
1:09.7	So, yeah, we'd love to just have you start kind of love to hear a little bit of
1:16.2	background about you, you know, what you're what you do for work or your family or
1:21.0	a little bit of an intro and then we can just go right into it.
1:24.1	I'm Mark Fueona.
1:29.1	I don't work right now.
1:30.6	Yeah, with the transplants and everything, I was on disability before that. So I've been on disability
1:36.6	for a little burn about 2016. I haven't worked since then so I'm struggling help wise for all those years since
1:48.8	then but now I'm in you know since I've been back in church, I've been in a better place, you know, mentally and physically, you know, I've got a good support system with my family.
2:06.0	I'm, I'm Simone so I come from a big family.
2:15.0	Seven kids. My dad, he was a Bishop, bishop of a ward they started over here. So, you know, we grew strong in the church, born in the church.
2:19.0	And we were, there was a family full of black sheep, you know, just one of my siblings stayed in church, got married in the temple.
2:25.6	The rest of us fell away, get her own thing. So, okay. So, when you were a kid, do you feel like you had a testimony of the church?
2:36.0	Do you feel like you felt like the church was true or do you,
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