Still Serving: Faith through Chronic Illness and an Early Return: Kenley Broadbent's Story - Latter-Day Lights

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How do you hold onto faith when life takes a turn you never expected?

On this week’s episode of Latter-day Lights, early-returned missionary Kenley Broadbent opens up about the day everything changed on her Peru Lima East mission. What started as occasional migraines spiraled into debilitating dizziness, nausea, and unexplained symptoms that eventually sent her home just nine months into her service.

Kenley shares the heartbreak of facing the stigma of being an early returnee, living with chronic illness, and her darkest months when depression made her question her purpose in the world. But through it all, she discusses the scripture in Philippians that stopped her spiral, her simple reminder of “but God.”, and how this ongoing trial has drawn her closer to Christ—even while she still doesn’t have all the answers.

Scott and Alisha relate through their own family health challenges as the conversation explores how physical trials can impact mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Together, they discuss finding purpose in unexpected paths, accepting service from others, and discovering that God can still work through us—even when life doesn’t look the way we planned.

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Chapters

1. “Faith to Stay” by Scott Brandley (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:30)

3. Welcoming Kenley Broadbent to the show (00:01:00)

4. Kenley in a nutshell (00:02:05)

5. Timeline of Kenley’s mission (00:04:10)

6. Kenley starts to get sick (00:07:20)

7. Kenley gets worse and decides to go home early (00:11:00)

8. Kenley arrives home and does more tests (00:13:00)

9. Kenley is unable to return to her mission (00:16:40)

10. Kenley’s anxieties on becoming an early returnee (00:17:50)

11. Journey to acceptance and depression (00:19:00)

12. Philippians 1:21-25 (00:21:20)

13. Scott’s daughter’s diagnosis (00:23:40)

14. Experiencing anger towards Heavenly Father (00:26:10)

15. Coping with chronic illness (00:28:20)

16. Serving vs. being served (00:30:00)

17. Letting others serve you (00:36:10)

18. The origin of Latter-Day Lights (00:39:20)

19. The true meaning of missionary work (00:42:00)

20. “But God.” (00:45:00)

21. Outro (00:46:55)

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