"I personally believe that one of the ways in which the spirit speaks to someone such as myself is through logical sense. Which I think is interesting because usually those two things are pitted against each other. I never received the voice in my head saying, this is true when I'm reading the Book of Mormon as some people would. As something clicked in my head I would be at peace about it. And then obviously the heart and mind have to be unified in order to be spiritually in tune. So I am always like, well, if you're experiencing an absence of the spirit because you have all these logical problems, that's probably why. It's because your heart and mind need to be in tune. And that's obviously why I never received a purely spiritual witness, because my mind was just not in it, and my mind needs to be in it. And so I always like to view those two things as working together, not really working against each other."

00:00 Facing a Crisis of Faith

08:06 Seeking Answers and Facing Doubts

11:54 Turning to Family and Church Leaders

20:23 Finding Hope in Apologetic Literature

23:54 Discovering Influential Books

29:36 Advice for Navigating Anti-Religious Content

32:39 Reconciling Faith and Logic

39:20 What Makes The Church Different

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" Lean into the God that you know, I will give you comfort, I will give you peace. So that's truly what I've learned through all my experiences. You know, in my deepest valleys where I was extremely fearful and guilt ridden, that I was so far gone, so far broken. Nobody would ever relate to me or understand me. I was completely cutting myself off from the one who understands this perfectly. Our Savior has felt everything that we've felt. Yeah, I will agree with people that, well, you don't understand how I'm feeling. I don't, I've never been through what you've been through, but your Savior does."

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"I find so much incredible joy in serving the temple. And in this position, it has been mind blowing to me just the amount of testimony I've gained. And seeing people in their hard situations and now understanding that everybody's situation's hard. We don't see it 'cause they all hide it. Right? And we just need to let God in. We need to let Him approach us. And we all need to be that for somebody else. We need to be the means of letting them see God's love, and acting on it."

00:00 The Devil Wants Me

08:31 Struggles with Pornography and Early Challenges

13:08 School Controversy and Social Isolation

17:12 Rebellious Teenage Years

26:17 Turning Point: Seeking Repentance

32:31 Life-Changing Spiritual Experiences

36:12 Overcoming Temptations and Challenges

40:35 Final Reflections and Gratitude

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"I just really started building my testimony to the point where I was able to start receiving personal revelation from my prayers again and getting answers and being close to God again. And then that's when everything changed. Like once I was able to have God in my life again, just I felt so much closer to Him and to the gospel and just being able to get answers. And then it's like I started to realize and looking back that He had been there all along."

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"When we are willing to submit to our Heavenly Father, he can do more with our life than we could ever want and hope to do. Sarah and I have a beautiful one-year-old tomorrow. It's been so fun and so hard, but it's so much more than what I ever could have made of with my life. And it's because of the atonement and it's because of Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father and their infinite love for all of us."

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Hank Smith's remarks at our recent Come Back to Christ Event. Hank shares a message of the incredible redemptive power of our Savior, the secret to staying unshaken by the world, and the goodness of the fruit of the tree of life.

“A person with an experience is never at the mercy of a person with an opinion” ~ Hank Smith

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 "I'm no longer scared to go to the temple after reading the Book of Mormon and knowing what it means... It is just been so many tender mercies since coming back, I'll never go back to that place I was before. I'll never let my family go back to that place before. And I know a hundred percent Heavenly Father put the Browns in Chloe's life knowing that that was how he was gonna get to me. And I know that prayer and priesthood is the biggest part of all that, and I'm so thankful."

00:00 A Troubling Temple Experience

09:23 Disconnect from the Church

14:47 Reconnecting with My Father

18:58 Chloe's Baptism and Its Impact

28:53 Breaking Down and Seeking Help

31:58 A Life-Changing Blessing

41:20 Temple Work and Family Connections

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"Doubts don't begin as a rejection of God or his gospel, they generally emerge as a rejection of ways in which God is being characterized... So what are the expectations we bring to the table? My personal take on this is, does my faith make God present to me? Does my faith give me access to the God of truth and love? Everything else is ancillary to that question or should be, and in my case, what I find is that yes, this church does."

00:00 Choosing Faith is Courageous

05:38 Letter to a Doubter

07:31 The Role of Doubt in Faith

10:30 The True and Living Church

16:25 The Importance of Community in Faith

23:30 Addressing Culture

24:44 The Genuine Question

35:01 Rebuilding Faith from the Ground Up

42:05 The Restoration of God's Love

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"I got some relief from the incredible fear and pain and darkness that was surrounding me when I made the decision to get honest. That was a profound experience. There's a great scripture that I actually experienced in that event, it was Alma 34:31-Yea, I would that ye would come forth and harden not your hearts any longer; for behold, now is the time and the day of your salvation; and therefore, if ye will repent and harden not your hearts, immediately will the great plan of redemption be brought about unto you. That scripture I found later in my repentance process spoke to me because I had experienced what happened when I had a change of heart. From fear of coming forward and being honest, to I will get honest. I will do whatever is required. I could lose my marriage, lose my church membership, lose my family, lose my job. All of those things were possibilities. But yet I realized that I didn't have any alternative except to get honest. And when I chose to do that, that was a changing experience for my life."

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Betrayal trauma book written by Rhyll Anne Croshaw: "What Can I Do About Me?"

00:00 Life-Changing Event

03:46 Mission in New Zealand

04:28 Addressing Sexual Addiction

09:10 Personal Recovery Journey

14:57 Rhyll's Perspective

17:00 Second and Third Disclosures

34:27 Understanding Betrayal and Addiction

44:05 The Importance of Parental Involvement

48:29 Steven's Excommunication and Re-baptism

01:02:01 The Power of True Doctrine

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Recorded at our Fall Come Back to Christ Event in Provo, UT.

"I'm grateful for all that Jesus does with our brokenness. He doesn't believe in creation ex nihilo, creation out of nothing. We don't believe in it. Jesus doesn't do it that way. He takes stuff and if you have stuff then you have something to offer. If you have brokenness, if you have doubt, if you have concern, if you have questions, if you have sin, if you have struggle, if you have sorrow, if you have broken hearts and contrite spirits or even broken covenants, whatever you've got, it's stuff. It's matter. And if you will consecrate to God your crisis, he can create something beautiful."

00:00 Mama Bear Moment

01:53 The Prodigal Party

03:25 Personal Prodigal Stories

13:12 The Role of a Judge

18:58 Gospel Tangents and Celestial Slingshots

32:05 The Fortunate Fall

35:45 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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