New Year, New Me

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🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Todd was far from religious or even spiritual when he started meeting weekly with a Latter-day Saint bishop in search of a new life beyond his addictions. What happened over the next four years, including an inspired trip to a roadside lemonade stand, changed the course of his life in real and lasting ways.

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is The Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from
0:07.4	real people who are practicing and living their faith every day.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Corinne Lay.
0:15.7	I've seen people posting new year, new me everywhere recently, and while it's mostly a
0:21.3	hilarious joke about cheeseburgers and fries, I think that phrase actually reveals the hope
0:26.8	most of us carry into the beginning of anything new.
0:30.6	Whether you set new year's goals or not, I think we can all agree that our belief in
0:34.5	the power of change and transformation through the gospel of Jesus Christ is one of the best
0:39.5	things about being a disciple.
0:42.0	This week, our story comes from Todd, who found himself in the midst of an addiction fueled
0:46.4	by a desire to be someone else and discovered something surprising about the path to healing
0:51.7	along the way.
0:54.1	I'm sure Todd.
1:00.0	Unfortunately, when I was a young kid, God involved with drugs in alcohol.
1:05.2	It started really simple.
1:06.5	When I was age 11, I took a sip out of some liquor that my dad had in our house.
1:13.7	And I didn't get drunk or anything, but I just tried it and it was kind of a rush and
1:17.9	no big deal.
1:19.3	My dad wasn't religious at all.
1:21.0	My mom was a LDS, but wasn't active.
1:26.4	We didn't go to church.
1:27.4	We didn't talk about God.
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