Michelle Kaufusi: Mother of 2 NFL Sons Shares Play-by-Play Recap of Her Faith

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On an early morning run, with her heart praying the way it always did, Michelle Kaufusi heard a voice tell her she would be the mayor of Provo and that she would not do it alone. No woman had held that seat in the city's 166-year history. She had been raised by a single mother as what felt like the only divorced family in the whole county, working as a young girl to help put money on the table. The faith that carried her into that office was not handed to her. She built it herself, one hard question at a time, on the rock of her Redeemer.

In this episode of Why We Believe, host Nathan Gwilliam sits down with Michelle to trace the faith behind a lifetime of unlikely callings. She remembers the young women's leaders who kept showing up for a free-spirited twelve-year-old until the Spirit could do its work. She describes the year she spent wearing out a young bishop with hard questions before she felt ready to enter the temple. She explains why she still closes even her public speeches with a testimony, why she told an agent her sons would not leave BYU without a degree, and how the steady faith of her husband holds her when the criticism comes. Through all of it, Michelle keeps pointing back to the same source: a personal relationship with Jesus Christ that nothing can move.

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