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Welcome to This Is the Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from real people

who are practicing and living their faith every day.

I'm your host, Corinne Lay.

In November of 2018, I was mindlessly scrolling through Facebook as one does.

When I saw posts from a friend of mine that made me stop in my tracks.

Cherelle was someone I had known in my young single adult ward when I lived in Salt Lake City the very first time.

And to be honest, I'd assumed she was from Utah like everyone else.

I had no idea that she was originally from California.

And now I was even more surprised to discover that she had grown up in the town of Paradise.

A town that the world had just watched burned to the ground in less than 72 hours.

Cherelle's post was simple.

She said, yesterday, my hometown of Paradise was devastated by a fire.

Everything is gone.

The house I grew up in, the schools, churches, hospital.

My heart is broken for that beautiful town.

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