I was born in the truth so growing up thinking not like a witness was taboo to me because I knew it was the truth. I was raised and always beleived it to be the truth because it was what I was told and instructed and what I beleived. I was baptized at 12 and knew from then I wanted to serve Jehovah and do what was right. Then I met a girl and my life was flipped upside down. ;) When I was DF'd I never felt I fit in with the world, even when I tried to. Their morals and values were completly different from mine. While they were ok with sleeping around (for example) I knew I always just wanted one woman in my life. So eventually I woke up and came back. But to be honest the truth never really hit me like it did this past year. Like I said I've always beleived it to be the truth, but I don't think I took things to heart the way we really should. It was the trials I went through over this past year that really helped me to appreciate how much Jehovah really loves us. I mean, yeah, he helped me a lot when I was working towards reinstatment and it was awesome, but I never felt his help, the strength he gave me until this past year. There were nights when I was balling my eyes out in prayer because I honestly didn't think I could take it anymore. I really wasn't sure how much longer I could go on with my circumstances as they were. But I kept reminding myself that we will not be tested beyond what we could bare. Jehovah really picked me up and carried me during those times. That just helped instill in me just how real this is, how important the truth is. And it's studies like the one we just had (Chapter 20) in the Worship book that show how close to the end we are.

I think I'm rambling now, but I'm in the truth because of Punk Princess' father. He witnessed to my parents, and while my father never got baptized before he died, my mother took to the truth.