Welcome to This is the Gospel and 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 Leigh.

I'm not a dad.

I know that seems like an obvious statement, but it's important to say it out loud because

our episode today is all about fathers and fatherhood.

And despite the fact that my voice can hit some really low notes in the morning before

I'm fully awake, I don't know much about the highs and lows of that particular role.

But I do know the impact that good men have in our lives and the way their presence in

our day-to-day growth is an important part of gospel living.

I think it's a little funny that we don't often use the word fathering in the same way that

we use mothering in our culture to encapsulate all the hard work of caring for and nurturing

one another, whether we share DNA or not.

I actually wish we could use it that way today because our story is a celebration of all

the men who step up and step in to act as fathers to us when our own father can't.

Our storytellers are Casey and Brian, two brothers who lost the opportunity to grow up with

a dad in their home, but found a wardful of men who are willing to help them and share

their goodness.

One thing to note, Casey and Brian have really similar voices, so you might actually have

a hard time telling them apart in the audio.

If you want to see a picture of them and their third brother Jeff who couldn't join them

for the recording but is an integral part of their story, we'll have those in the show

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