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JAERSON CERVANTES
June 22, 2007

MY PROBLEMS BEFORE I RECEIVED ETERNAL LIFE WERE MY STRUGGLE IN SCHOOL. I WASN'T DOING SO WELL. EVERY NOW AND THEN MY PARENTS GROUNDED ME FOR THE GRADES I RECEIVED. MY ULTIMATE NEED WAS TO DO WELL IN SCHOOL. MY ATTITUDES TOWARDS MY GRADES WERE REFLECTED ON TEACHERS, FOR EXAMPLE I GOT MAD AT THE TEACHER BUT NEVER TOOK IT INTO ACTION. I THOUGHT MY TEACHERS WERE PICKING ON ME.

THE ONLY STRUGGLE I HAVE ARE THE GRADES I GET FOR MY WORK.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER STRUGGLE.
IN MIDDLE SCHOOL MY LIFE WAS REVOLVED AROUND DRUGS AND GANGS BUT THEY NEVER CAME UPON, ALTHOUGH I HAD FRIENDS THAT SMOKE AND THAT WERE IN GANGS.

MY LIFE IN THAT TIME WAS UNFULLFILLING BECAUSE I WASN'T HAPPY. I DIDN'T HAVE JOY BECAUSE OF MY STRUGGLE IN SCHOOL.
WHEN EVER I DID SOMETHING FUN WITH MY FAMILY, LIKE GOINGTO THE PARK, OR SOME RECREATION, I ALWAYS TOUGHT ABOUT MY STRUGGLE AND THAT HELD ME BACK AND IT PUT ME DOWN.

BEFORE I RECEIVED ETERNAL LIFE I WAS CATHOLIC, MY MOM IS COLOMBIAN AND MY DAD IS MEXICAN, SO IMAGINE MEXICANS FOLLOW THE VIRGIN MARY AND THATS WHAT WE DID. WE WENT TO CHURCH ONCE IN A WHILE BUT IT WAS NO FUN.

THEN, I RECEIVED ETERNAL LIFE. I FELT SO GOOD. I PRAY TO GOD SAYING "THANK YOU FOR KEEPING ME SAFE THROUGHOUT MY LIFE EVEN BEFORE I ACCEPTED HIM AND IN THE STRUGGLES WITH DRUGS AND GANGS". I'VE BEEN GOING TO CHURCH EVERDAY SINCE 2004 AND IN SPRING OF 2007 I RECEIVED CHRIST AS MY SAVIOR AND GOT BAPTIZED ON FATHERS DAY. WHAT A BLESSING IT IS TO BE BATIZED ON FATHERS DAY, KNOWING IT FOR MY FATHER IN HEAVEN AND MY FATHER PHYSICALLY. MY DAD BEEN PRAYING FOR ME TO ACCEPT CHRIST AND GET TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM, MY WHOLE FAMILY PRAYED FOR ME. SO AS A GIFT FOR FATHERS DAY I GOT BATIZED FOR MY DAD AND FOR MY FATHER IN HEAVEN. I PLAY SOCCER AND I HAVE FRIENDS THAT ENJOY SOCCER, THEY ALSO GO TO THE CHURCH, AND WHAT I WANT TO DO IS BUILD A SOCCER TEAM AND REACH OTHER TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS TO THE WORD OF GOD AND INTO HIS GLORY. I'VE ALSO BEEN DOING BETTER IN SCHOOL BECAUSE I PRAY TO GOD SO THAT HE CAN GIVE ME WISDOM AND RESPONSBILITY. HAVING CHRIST AS MY SAVIOR HAS BEEN A JOY THAT THERE IS SOMEONE TO CARE FOR YOU LIKE NO OTHER HAS DONE, JUST LIKE A MOTHER AND FATHER CARES FOR THEIR CHILDREN.

AFTER I RECIEVED ETERNAL LIFE, GOD HAS BEEN FAITHFUL BY GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO LERAN HOW TO REACH OUT TO OTHERS ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD THROUGH "XEE". THAT KIND OF A START FOR ME.

NOW THAT I HAVE ETERNAL LIFE I FEEL THAT GOD WILL ALWAYS BE BY MY SIDE GUIDING ME INTO HIS PATH, A PATH FILLED WITH HAPPINESS, THE THINGS YOU WANT IN LIFE AND JESUS CHRIST AS MY SAVIOR.

I NOW KNOW THAT GOD HAS GIVEN ME ETERNAL LIFE AND THAT I WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN I DIE BECAUSE I HAVE FAITH IN HIM AND BELIEVED IN HIM.