Monday, April 14, 2008
My Conversion
OK well I thought I would tell this wonderful story of my baptism and the story of how God called me to be one of his own. I will start all the way at the beginning. When I was 11 years old I noticed that we were getting new neighbors just 2 houses down. Me and my friend that lived just between me and where the new neighbors were moving in sat on her front porch and watched these people move in. We were just nosey and wanted to find out what we could about these new people moving in. Well a few days later we seen that a teenage girl(Sis. Sondra) had moved in so my friend dared me to go talk to her and I did and we were instantly friends it seems like. Well at that time in my life I needed these new friends my mother had recently left me and my brother for my Dad to raise by himself and I was a very lost and lonely child. Over the next few years Sis. Sondra and her family took me in and treated me as one of their own my brother and her brother were good friends and her mom (Sis. Stubby) looked out for me and tried as best as she could to be a mother to me. I was attending Catholic school and church at this time and I always felt like God watched over me and over those years HE led me to the General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn. I went to church there for a couple years before I got baptized. I was 17 when God said it is time. I have never had a day of regret. I also met my husband through this family. I married Sis. Sondra's cousin. And that is a whole other story how God worked all that out in my life. But I will end for now.
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8 comments:
Hi, Sis. Jackie, I'm so glad to meet you & look forward to getting to know you.
Thanks for sharing your story since I am just getting to know you online. I guess I should write my story on my blog too! I never have.
Sis. Kim I look forward to reading your story. It is always an uplift to hear of others conversions into the faith. Sis. Shannon I look forward to getting to know you too. Thanks for the comments guys!!!!
way cool I am so glad God brought you to the faith and I love your story awesome what God dose in our lifes
I am glad to see you blogging Sis. Jackie, I think I remember you guys from our trip to Indy. This is a sweet testimony of God bringing you to the faith. I'll write more as the days go forward, but for now please know that I treasure that time we got to know your sweet brethren there...
Sis. Lori I think when you all were out here you and your husband sit right behind us in church. Funny the things you remember. I was pregnant with my first daughter when you were here too. I dont know why these things stick with me I am weird I guess!!!lol
Thanks for sharing that with us Sis. Jackie. That's sweet how God set it all up for you to be called into this way.:)
What a sweet testimony of how God looked after you even as a child. He told me in a prophecy that He had heard my prayers in the corner of my room as a child. (no one knew that I would sit in this same corner when I would go to pray to him) I am so comforted to hear how He reaches His hand out to those of us that are lost little ones.
I'm Sister Dayna from Harrisburg, Oregon and I feel blessed to get to know another one of my Sisters from afar!
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