Anchored

Roseanne Dawes and Stephanie Francom
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Anchored is an LDS podcast where hosts Roseanne Dawes and Stephanie Francom explore real journeys of faith and how to nurture a personal relationship with God through life’s challenges. Each week, a new guest shares their story of trusting God, keeping covenants, and finding hope amid heartache and uncertainty. Our hope is to uplift and encourage listeners as they navigate life’s rough waters—anchored in Christ. Interested in being a guest? You can request to join us at anchoredpodcast.net.

  1. 5h ago

    How He Knew the Book of Mormon was True

    LDS faith, Book of Mormon testimony, answers to prayer, personal revelation, temple covenants, Holy Ghost promptings, Jesus Christ, faith crisis, children leaving the Church, blessings of the covenant Farley believed the Book of Mormon was true. But as a teenager, believing was no longer enough. He needed to know. When he finally knelt to ask God, the answer changed him—but it was only the beginning. Across the decades that followed, Farley would discover that the Lord’s voice can arrive in unexpected ways, ask difficult things, and lead us into stories we never could have planned for ourselves. Now seventy, Farley can look back and recognize the hand of God woven through every chapter—even the ones that remain unfinished. Through remarkable answers to prayer, sacred experiences, and deeply personal wrestles, he has learned that our hardest seasons may become the very places where God’s promises matter most. What happens when the answers don’t come as expected, the people we love choose a different path, and the ending we have prayed for remains out of sight? Farley’s story offers a powerful reminder: God is still working, covenants still hold, and what appears to be the end may only be the middle of the story. CHAPTERS: 00:00 A Family's Unexpected Missionary Calling 00:45 Meet Farley Anderson: A Life Filled with Miracles 02:43 Finding His Own Testimony of the Gospel 06:14 How Prayer Led Him to His Eternal Companion 08:19 Answering a Branch's Prayers in South Carolina 12:22 Recognizing the Holy Ghost in Everyday Miracles 15:07 Finding Blessings Through Trials and Weaknesses 16:25 The Book of Mormon's Message of Freedom and Liberty 21:41 A Sacred Experience in the Garden of Gethsemane 25:28 Trusting God's Promises for Our Families 27:36 Temple Covenants, Happy Endings, and Eternal Hope 35:25 Finding Faith After the Loss of a Child 38:13 Learning to Trust and Follow God's Direction 46:45 Seeing God's Hand in Our Lives and Our Nation 52:46 Why I Choose to Stay in the Church of Jesus Christ SHOW NOTES:  americasbook.org http://www.youtube.com/@liberty.preparedness

    How He Knew the Book of Mormon was True

  2. Oct 25

    Choosing God Through Grief

    Latter-day Saint mother, stillbirth, losing a child, grief and faith, unanswered prayers, family loss, Jesus Christ, trusting God after tragedy, hope when heaven feels silent, choosing to stay.  Kelsie knew what it was to find her way back to God. She had served a mission, married, and built a family around the faith she loved. She could never quite understand why someone would leave the Church. Then she faced the loss she feared most. The prayers continued, but the life Kelsie had pictured did not return. And as more hard things came, the questions she once had about other people began to change. She was still going to church. She still loved the Lord. But what did faith look like when she could no longer make sense of what had happened? Kelsie’s story follows a mother through grief, unexpected connection, and the difficult, tender work of staying with God. #LatterDaySaintFaith #FaithAfterLoss #StillbirthAwareness #GriefAndFaith #JesusChrist  CHAPTERS: 00:43 – Meet Kelsey Beeston and Her Journey of Faith 02:27 – Experiencing Loss and Discovering a Personal Testimony 05:24 – Following the Spirit and Answering the Call to Serve 07:14 – Trusting God's Plan When Life Takes an Unexpected Turn 08:33 – Developing a “But If Not” Kind of Faith 10:38 – The Heartbreak of Losing a Child 13:13 – Finding Compassion and Connection Through Grief 15:09 – Discovering That the Savior Will Never Forget Us 18:55 – Receiving God's Comfort So We Can Comfort Others 21:03 – Facing Serious Illness and Learning Not to Judge Others 24:18 – Miracles, Priesthood Blessings, and Trusting the Lord 30:54 – Recognizing How God Prepares Us Before Our Trials 34:17 – Losing a Beloved Sister and Finding Healing Through Christ 39:35 – Holding Fast to the Iron Rod When Life Knocks Us Down 45:02 – The Savior's Grace Reaches Every One of Us 47:09 – Finding Strength and Peace Through Our Covenants 53:36 – Why I Stay: Choosing Jesus Christ and His Restored Gospel SHOW NOTES: Kelsie Beeston-Facebook  Kelsiebeeston-instagram

    Choosing God Through Grief

  3. Oct 18

    Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

    LDS faith, Jesus Christ, testimony, Christian coach, mentoring young men, raising faithful sons, future fathers and husbands, missionary influence, faith through tragedy, trusting God, daily discipleship McKay never forgot the people who saw something in him before he could see it in himself—a faithful mother, a high school coach, a mission president, and the young woman whose testimony made him look more closely at his own. Now, standing before a team of young men, McKay understands that football is only part of what he is teaching. Behind every helmet is someone’s future husband, someone’s future father—and perhaps a boy who needs one steady person to show him what faith, integrity, and commitment look like when they are lived. But the lessons McKay teaches have been tested far beyond the football field. In some of the hardest moments of his life, when fear pressed close and easy answers disappeared, he found himself confronting the questions beneath everything else: Do I truly believe this? Where is my faith right now? And will I remain true when trusting God costs more than I ever imagined? This is the story of the people who helped shape one young man’s faith—and the life he has spent shaping because of them. CHAPTERS 0:39 – Meet McKay Young: Teacher, Coach, Bishop, Husband and Father 2:14 – A Mother’s Steady Testimony and the Generational Impact of Faith 7:16 – Falling in Love and Choosing to Live What You Believe 9:00 – Missionary Service and Becoming a Disciple of Jesus Christ 12:38 – “Follow Jesus”: Love People, Keep the Commandments and Walk the Walk 14:00 – Be Honest, Work Hard and Be Kind 17:50 – Building a Daily Relationship with the Savior Through Prayer and Scripture 21:49 – Stop Hiding Behind Fig Leaves and Come Unto Christ 24:59 – Living the Gospel Is More Than Sitting on a Church Bench 27:14 – When Faith Gets Real: Facing the Possibility of Losing His Wife 31:00 – Losing His Mother and Learning That “If It’s Not Okay, It’s Not the End” 36:03 – Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? 43:35 – Do It the Lord’s Way: Trusting God’s Playbook 49:45 – Why I Stay: “Because I Believe”

    Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

  4. Oct 11

    Recognizing Personal Revelation

    Latter-day Saint faith, personal revelation, temple marriage, missionary service, motherhood, priesthood blessings, miracles, grief, and learning to recognize the hand of Jesus Christ. Alesha believed Heavenly Father had a plan for her life. But when she found herself caught between two beautiful futures, the answer she desperately wanted refused to come clearly. One decision would change everything—and choosing it would require her to trust what she could not yet see. Years later, a quiet prompting seemed almost too small to matter. Alesha followed it anyway. She couldn’t have known what it was preparing her for. As joy and heartbreak became unexpectedly intertwined, Alesha began to recognize a pattern she had missed before: heaven had been speaking all along. But would she be able to see God’s hand in the part of the story she never would have chosen? #LatterDaySaintFaith #PersonalRevelation #HearHim #TrustGodsPlan #FaithInJesusChrist CHAPTERS:  0:41 – Meet Alicia Lopez: Seeing God’s Hand in Her Life   3:22 – Line Upon Line: Recognizing God’s Divine Design   5:59 – A Patriarchal Blessing and Knowing Heavenly Father Is Aware of Me   7:42 – When God’s Plan Looks Different Than My Plan   11:44 – A Boyfriend and a Mission Call on the Same Day   13:15 – Choosing the Temple and Trusting the Lord’s Direction   18:30 – Learning to Recognize and Act on the Holy Ghost   22:50 – Following a Prompting to Create and Discovering God’s Goodness   26:00 – Godly Sorrow, Repentance, and the Power of the Atonement   27:47 – Trusting God’s Plan for Our Family   30:29 – Losing Our Baby and Hearing “It Was Not Your Fault”   32:16 – Feeling Surrounded by Earthly and Heavenly Angels   36:32 – Putting the Savior First Every Day   38:51 – Cling to What You Know When Life Hurts   42:18 – Why I Stay: Too Many Witnesses to Deny SHOW NOTES:  https://a.co/d/0gUYH3p2

    Recognizing Personal Revelation

  5. Sep 27

    The Missionaries Took His Truck: An LDS Conversion Story

    LDS conversion story, joining the Church of Jesus Christ, Mormon missionaries, baptism, kindness, service, faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, temple, gospel truths, relationship with God Bobby wasn’t searching for God. Raised in a California farm town by a single mother, he grew up with two rules—don’t lie and don’t steal—and almost no understanding of church, scripture, or the kind of people who built their lives around either one. By his early twenties, Bobby had found a very different way to live. Yet wherever he went, Latter-day Saints seemed to appear. They helped strangers. They quietly served. They lived by convictions Bobby didn’t understand—and their goodness made him wonder what they wanted. Then two missionaries knocked on his door. Their message was simple enough. Some of it even made sense. But Bobby had spent too much of his life relying on himself to be easily persuaded by a few lessons about God. And then, on a day when everything was falling apart, those missionaries came back. What they did next left Bobby facing a possibility he had never seriously considered: What if these people were not merely talking about Jesus Christ? What if they actually knew Him? Following that question would require Bobby to reconsider nearly everything he believed about goodness, repentance, and the kind of God who might still want a man like him. He thought the missionaries had come to teach him a religion. He had no idea they were about to show him an entirely different way to live. CHAPTERS: 00:46 – Meet Bobby Tracy and hear where his story began 03:49 – Early encounters with Latter-day Saints and examples that stayed with him 07:38 – Meeting the missionaries and seeing the gospel differently 09:27 – Missionaries in Barstow open the door to conversion 12:03 – An unforgettable act of service that changed Bobby’s life 12:41 – Baptism, repentance, and discovering that the gospel is a process 15:08 – Learning to receive service and let go of pride 18:08 – Seeing everyone as brothers and sisters 21:19 – Moving beyond checking boxes to a real relationship with Heavenly Father 23:13 – Divorce, heartbreak, and a powerful experience with God 27:15 – Meeting Nicole and recognizing the Lord’s hand in their relationship 37:00 – Holding onto spiritual experiences and choosing faith 42:00 – Finding the Father he never had in Heavenly Father 48:05 – Following God to Nauvoo and living a life of service 56:06 – Why Bobby chooses to stay in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    The Missionaries Took His Truck: An LDS Conversion Story

  6. Sep 20

    Finding Emotional Healing Through Jesus Christ

    LDS faith, Jesus Christ, emotional healing, temple worship, family struggles, generational trauma, grace, spiritual growth, personal revelation, finding hope, healing through Christ Elaine had done everything she thought faith required. She had grown up with scripture stories around the dinner table and gospel music drifting through the house. She had felt the Spirit when she was young, married in the temple, and built a life centered on the gospel. But beneath the music and memories, something remained unhealed. Elaine could see patterns in her family she desperately wanted to change. She believed that if she tried hard enough to be good, somehow everything would turn out right. But when she reached toward heaven for the healing she longed for, heaven seemed silent. Then, during a long day at the temple, two strangers unknowingly gave her the beginning of an answer. What if the Savior’s promise was not that every struggle would be taken away? What if some burdens remained because they had something to teach her? This is Elaine’s story of wounds passed quietly from one generation to the next, the difference between knowing the gospel and allowing it to change you—and the relationship with Jesus Christ that made survival possible. LDS faith, Jesus Christ, emotional healing, temple worship, family struggles, generational trauma, grace, spiritual growth, personal revelation, finding hope, healing through Christ Elaine had done everything she thought faith required. She had grown up with scripture stories around the dinner table and gospel music drifting through the house. She had felt the Spirit when she was young, married in the temple, and built a life centered on the gospel. But beneath the music and memories, something remained unhealed. Elaine could see patterns in her family she desperately wanted to change. She believed that if she tried hard enough to be good, somehow everything would turn out right. But when she reached toward heaven for the healing she longed for, heaven seemed silent. Then, during a long day at the temple, two strangers unknowingly gave her the beginning of an answer. What if the Savior’s promise was not that every struggle would be taken away? What if some burdens remained because they had something to teach her? This is Elaine’s story of wounds passed quietly from one generation to the next, the difference between knowing the gospel and allowing it to change you—and the relationship with Jesus Christ that made survival possible. CHAPTERS: 0:00 When Living the Gospel Doesn’t Mean Life Will Be Easy 2:04 Building a Testimony from Childhood 3:42 How Family History Strengthened Elaine’s Faith 4:48 Finding Strength and Healing Through Music 6:00 Recognizing and Breaking Generational Emotional Patterns 8:14 Why Trials Are Part of Living the Gospel 12:29 Becoming Doers of the Word and Choosing Love Over Contention 15:15 Becoming Who Heavenly Father Wants Us to Become 21:07 Helping Others See the Savior Through Us 23:21 Learning to Hear and Trust Personal Revelation 25:28 Taking Our Struggles to the Temple 27:45 “I Want You to Learn to Be Nice When You’re Tired” 29:40 “I Cannot Do This Alone” — Jesus Christ Is the Way 32:32 How Following a Prompting to Minister Brought Healing and Peace 36:00 Balancing Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Help 38:41 Why Others Can’t Fix Us — Learning to Rely on the Savior 43:07 Grace, Works, and Learning to Simply Be 44:19 How to Love Someone Who Is Struggling Emotionally 47:17 Why Elaine Chooses to Stay in the Church of Jesus Christ Show Notes:  https://pepence.com/    https://www.youtube.com/@becoming58/videos  The Gift of GraceBy President Dieter F. Uchtdorf https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2015/04/the-gift-of-grace?lang=eng The Challenge to BecomeBy Elder Dallin H. Oaks https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/2002/08/the-challenge-to-become?lang=eng

    Finding Emotional Healing Through Jesus Christ

  7. Sep 13

    Finding God in the Quiet

    LDS meditation, hearing the Holy Ghost, personal revelation, prayer, stillness, knowing God, Jesus Christ, spiritual peace, quiet time with God, and learning to “be still and know” He is always there. Justin had spent years doing what faithful disciples do. He served a mission, attended church, honored his covenants, and kept moving forward. Jesus Christ had always been part of his life. But knowing about God was not quite the same as knowing Him. Through years filled with school, military service, midnight watches, marriage, work, and the constant motion of an ordinary life, Justin began to discover something he had nearly missed: God was not asking him to search harder. He was inviting him to become still. In the quiet, thoughts came with unexpected clarity. Impressions sounded almost like his own voice, yet carried a conviction he could not manufacture. Experiences that once seemed random began fitting together, slowly revealing the hand of a God who had been near all along. But in a world determined to fill every silent moment, how do we become quiet enough to recognize Him? Justin’s story is an invitation to step away from the noise, sit patiently in the stillness, and discover what can happen when we stop trying so hard to find God—and become quiet enough to let Him find us. Show Notes:  firthmindfulness.com

    Finding God in the Quiet

  8. Sep 6

    When Forever Fell Apart: Trusting Jesus After Divorce

    LDS divorce, Latter-day Saint women, temple marriage, Jesus Christ, healing through the Atonement, trusting God, faith after divorce, prayer, Holy Ghost, repentance, remarriage, second chances  Ne’Cole was eighteen when she entered a Latter-day Saint marriage believing temple covenants would lead to forever. The next day, her husband told her he had made a mistake. He didn’t love her. Those words did not end the marriage. They became the wound around which Ne’Cole built it. For nearly thirty years, she tried to become lovable enough to change the story. She raised eight children, filled her home with prayer, served in the Church, attended the temple, and kept reaching for the marriage she had believed faithfulness would produce. But when the marriage ended anyway, Ne’Cole was left facing a question no amount of praying, striving, or trying harder could answer: What if God was not asking her to save the life she had built—but to trust Him to create a more perfect way? She moved to the small Idaho town of Malad and began swimming each morning in the warm waters of Downata Hot Springs. Like the man who waited beside the Pool of Bethesda, Ne’Cole longed to be made whole. Yet the Savior was not asking her to keep waiting for someone else to carry her into the water. He was asking her to rise. Healing would require Ne’Cole to confront the belief she had carried since she was eighteen—that love had to be earned. It would ask her to stop forcing the future, release the relationships she thought might save her, and trust Jesus Christ enough to let Him lead. Ne’Cole had spent much of her life trying to create the right ending. Now she would discover that Jesus is a far better Partner—and that life becomes something more beautiful when we stop trying to manage His work, get out of His way, and allow Him to create a more perfect way. CHAPTERS: 0:40 – Meet Nicole Tracy: Faith, Family, and an Unexpected Adventure 2:34 – Pioneer Roots and the Seeds of a Personal Testimony 5:19 – Learning to Hear Heavenly Father for Herself 7:03 – When Righteousness Became a Checklist of “Am I Good Enough?” 9:33 – Loss, Divorce, and Learning to Completely Trust God 12:15 – Healing, Self-Love, and Finding a More Excellent Way 15:46 – Atonement, Forgiveness, and Healing a Blended Family 17:22 – Covenants and Knowing You Are Unconditionally Loved by God 20:36 – Letting Go of Checkbox Faith and Truly Trusting the Savior 24:31 – Your Worth Doesn’t Change When You Make Mistakes 29:01 – What “A More Excellent Way” Really Means 33:02 – Daily Repentance, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Growth 35:50 – Trusting God’s Plot Twists: Saying Yes to Nauvoo 41:04 – Having the Faith to Act When God Says Go 45:20 – Why Nicole Chooses to Stay in the Church of Jesus Christ

    When Forever Fell Apart: Trusting Jesus After Divorce
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Anchored is an LDS podcast where hosts Roseanne Dawes and Stephanie Francom explore real journeys of faith and how to nurture a personal relationship with God through life’s challenges. Each week, a new guest shares their story of trusting God, keeping covenants, and finding hope amid heartache and uncertainty. Our hope is to uplift and encourage listeners as they navigate life’s rough waters—anchored in Christ. Interested in being a guest? You can request to join us at anchoredpodcast.net.

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  • Creator
    Roseanne Dawes and Stephanie Francom
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    181
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Anchored
  • Show Website
    Anchored

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