Hunter Croxall is caring, upbeat, humorous, and wise beyond his years. But, what most people don’t see from the outside is that he lives with a rare degenerative muscle disease called Beckers Muscular Dystrophy. I have been blessed to know Hunter as a fellow student at BYU and learn much about how he stays optimistic and hopeful despite the daily challenges that accompany his condition.

Elder Giatras is a missionary that has recently served within my home ward here in the Ohio Columbus Mission. He has helped me become the hybrid missionary I am today as I have had (and still do have) many opportunities to go proselyting with him and his companion. He has an enthusiasm for life and for missionary work despite a heart wrenching tragedy that he and his family have had to endure.

In this episode of Mortality Works, we talk about how to hold onto our faith amid such tragedies and how an eternal perspective and knowledge of the plan of salvation can comfort us when we lose loved ones.

In this episode, I sit down with a good friend of mine and fellow Ohio service missionary, Elder Berryman. Join us as we discuss our experiences with depression, anxiety, and the testimonies we hold that have been born in such mentally wrenching times.

From the Serving Up Discipleship podcast, Elder Brazier and Sister Knapp interview service missionary, Elder Gleason, who shares his powerful story of coming home early from his original mission assignment in Fiji and learning to combat scrupulosity through faith.

Elder Brazier discusses with his mother, Sarah, his experiences coming home early from a proselyting mission, then having to return home from BYU for medical reasons, and eventually receiving a call as a service missionary nearly two years after his initial mission assignment. They talk about the blessings of service missionary life and its accompanying unique opportunities, as well the challenges that come with serving in a relatively newer calling in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.