The Gifts God Gives
LDS Living Podcasts
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5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Stories in this episode: A missionary visits a recent convert in jail and leaves with a crazy new plan for her post-mission life; Erin gets a crash course in motherhood when she takes four small children to a restaurant for the first time by herself; Years of unrequited love in her dating life prepare Megan for a surprising twist when she becomes a mother.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that reviews on iTunes help new people find the podcasts that inspire you most? |
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| 0:09.4 | gospel, would you take a minute to rate our podcast and maybe even leave us a review on iTunes? |
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| 0:19.2 | little bit of storytelling magic in their week. We really appreciate it. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome to This is the gospel and LDS living podcasts where we feature real stories from real people |
| 0:35.1 | who are practicing and living their faith every day. I'm your host, Corinne Lay. |
| 0:42.0 | I never intended to come home from my mission in West Virginia with a foster child, |
| 0:46.8 | but that's exactly what happened and how that happened has everything to do with my mother. |
| 0:53.8 | My mission, like so many others, was full of emotional and spiritual ups and downs and to be honest, |
| 0:59.6 | very little of it felt the way that stories and histories of missions make it seem. |
| 1:05.4 | But when we started to teach Catherine the gospel, everything about it was exactly what you imagine |
| 1:10.9 | a mission would be like. She was ready for the gospel from the minute that she said her first prayer |
| 1:18.6 | to the day she was baptized. I just honestly had never met anyone who was so excited to learn |
| 1:23.9 | about prophets and to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 1:30.8 | After I was transferred out of the area, Catherine and I kept in touch through letters. This was |
| 1:35.9 | the early 2000s and email was still kind of a novelty. So we wrote letters back and forth. |
| 1:41.6 | And one day, as I was nearing the end of my mission, I got a letter from Catherine that was very |
| 1:46.3 | clearly from her because it had her handwriting and it had her name on it, but it also had a stamp |
| 1:52.2 | on the front from a correctional facility in a city that I didn't recognize. |
| 1:58.0 | Though the exact circumstances were a little bit fuzzy, the letter said that Catherine had been |
| 2:05.9 | incarcerated for something that happened a long time ago and she told me that she would be in jail |
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