Portia Louder's incredible journey of Coming Back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Portia shares her experience of growing up in a non traditional home and coming back to the church after going through teen pregnancy, drugs, adoption, getting sober, and then eventually going to prison.

Portia is an incredible person who puts her heart into sharing her story to influence for good. She helps run the "Worldwide United" page on Facebook that has over 500k members. She shares her story with missionaries at the MTC, works with recovering addicts, and many others who are trying to find their way.

Her story is one you don't want to miss.

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. Portia I am so pumped to have you on my podcast. I can't wait to hear your story. You're obviously a big deal. You're pretty yeah, I mean you are you know you run the worldwide
0:28.8	United Facebook page which is you know a page that gives so much light to people and it's just an amazing page.
0:35.0	And so yeah, I'm just, I'm excited to hear your story of coming back to the church and
0:42.0	yeah, I just want to kind of open it up to you to share wherever you feel like you'd like to start.
0:48.0	Yeah, thank you so much Ashley. I appreciate you having me.
0:51.0	And I found you because you had an amazing story.
0:56.6	Your story was posted on the Church of Jesus Christ
0:59.4	of Latter-day Saints Inspiration page.
1:01.6	And then it came through also on Worldwide Unified and I'm an
1:05.2	admin I'm one of a bunch of admin but and I'm also a content writer so I'm not
1:09.2	like I'm really not that big deal at all I'm like a more in the criminal unit. You're a big deal.
1:16.0	No, but anyway, I was super grateful to be here. So, um, so yeah, I was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
1:25.3	I'm the oldest of seven children and I actually grew up in Richfield so like small town
1:30.8	Southern Utah.
1:40.3	And even though I was baptized when I was eight in our home, we didn't have a lot of structure or discipline. My mom and dad were like hippies before it was a thing like way back.
1:48.0	Which was cool like we were really creative. We would make plays and dig huts, and you know, things that are now
1:56.4	seem like amazing, but that's what we did for fun. The challenge was structure, like no structure.
2:02.7	So by the time I was 12 or 13,
2:08.2	I really started getting into relationships.
2:10.6	Like that was my first thing. I remember just feeling like I didn't fit in
2:16.4	the church and it wasn't it wasn't the church it was just the structure of it or
2:21.0	it was an organization and we were kind of anti establishment and it was just the
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