We'd rather she had gone to Bible College. Perhaps if she'd went to Bible College, things would have gone differently. But Ella was adventurous and she left for a Peace Corps mission in Ecuador.

When the news hit us, we were devastated. Another girl! Our daughter? The embarrassment we felt! We demanded she come home, to resolve the situation.

​My husband Grant called the church elders. They suggested a program that could help her adjust her feelings of attractions, help her with her sexual confusion.

Option 1: Ella agreed with us and signed up for a gay conversion camp.
Option 2: Ella was defiant and decided to move to Seattle to live with my sister Jenn for a while.