We received this original email before recording this episode:

I am mostly reaching out to you today because of a story I had to share. and in talking with others, I’ve come to the conclusion its to good to just keep to myself.  

Let me start this by saying I am in the process of recovering from an alcohol addiction, and rediscovering my own testimony.  I am a 24 year old divorced male.  when i was 19 i got married in the LDS temple and after my divorce i started drinking and fell away from the church.  I had a rough couple of years really rebelling against the church and just doing anything and everything i wanted because i was so mad at the church.   during this few years i was reached out to by the church to do a promotional video for the church for the   addiction recovery program. ironic right?  Basically i saw it as a little extra money for myself.  The project was filmed on my birthday, about 2 years ago.  being the person i was and it being my birthday, I was actually drinking in between shooting locations for this project, and after it was done i went home and proceeded to get drunk by myself for my birthday.  really terrrible, im not proud of it but it is what it is.  that video project is ac
tually the main video today on mormonchannnel.org here is a link! 

http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=3446112587001

any way after that was filmed i kept doing what i was doing.  I met a wonderful girl that im actually engaged to now and we started dating (she is amazing and she saved me), during this time i got a dui.  and i remember praying to god that i wanted to die, i didn’t care, i was drunk in jail and friendless.  all my friends were to drunk to come get me. i prayed that i was done with life because no one loved me, and that all i wanted was love. I recieved a feeling of peace and the next morning the girl i had started dating was there bailing me out of jail, and the look in her eye….. i just new heavenly father had sent her to me… I’m tearing up just typin this haha… any way fast forward to now and i am 1 year sober, I’m going to church and ARP meetings and i am going back to church. i have a long way still to go. but i now have the testimony i never did. and the irony of being in a video about addiction really just goes to show how much god knows about me.  

There are a lot more details, but like i say if you wanted a guest with a interesting, sad and great story i might be a decent option!  Thanks for all you do and making my work days better. keep up the great show!!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS