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.

When we really dig into it, the word faith can feel pretty complicated.

It can mean totally different things to different people, and it can even mean totally different

things to us at different times in our lives.

In fact, our understanding of faith is something that will absolutely shift and deepen as

we draw closer to the Savior and have new experiences.

The stories in today's episode are all about those moments when our personal understanding

of what it means to have faith and to live faithfully evolves and grows in our practice of discipleship.

Our first story today comes from Tim Ballard.

You probably know Tim from his work with Operation Underground Railroad, a group that rescues

kids around the world from human trafficking.

It's pretty amazing.

And Tim's experience in training with the CIA prepared him for extreme situations in the

field.

But it was actually his faith and preparation in the gospel that saved his life on one particular

operation.

Here's Tim.

So I have a really crazy job.

I've worked as an undercover operator for the last 15 years, and that puts me in some

crazy, crazy experiences, planning operations, going undercover against wicked people who are

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