“I was a wannabe gangster. Tryna fit in. Started doing drugs, alcohol. I started going to the club because I was tryna find something to fill me up. But it wasn’t working.
I was already baptized in the Holy Spirit and under water, but I kept running away from the Lord. I was like in and out the door.
And then one night I told the Lord, I’m like: “give me one more year to have fun. To do the worldly stuff.” And then, New Years Eve came by. I drank for the last time. Got drunk. Got into a couple of fights.
And then I sat down one night, I’m like, “Lord I’m over it, I just want to die today.” And I was like, “If you’re real, Lord, send me somebody, have someone call me right now.” And then like 2 or 3 minutes later someone called me, and I was like “woah, that’s crazy.”
And that person was asking if I was ok, and I was like, “I’m not going to lie, I’m not OK.”
And then, I was like, “Alright Lord, if you’re real, I’ll give you a week – if you don’t get me back to Kona, I don’t know what to do with my life.” (I was in Texas then)
And then a week later and a couple of days, one of my homies sent me a ticket back to Kona that he had bought. And I’m like, what the heck. And he’s like “yeah, you’re going back Kona, Monday.” And I’m like, woah – that is crazy!”
So I’m like, alright bet, once I get back to Kona I am going to go straight to ministry night.
And it was perfect timing – I got here like 5 on a Monday night, right before ministry night.
And then its crazy cause, at ministry night, Frenchie and one of his homies were saying “who wants to give their lives back to Jesus”
I was like – that’s me right there. So I looked at my homie Alec, I’m like, “Hey, what bro, think I can go up there?” And he said “bro, go up there!” I’m like, alright, bet.
I ran to the front, I’m like, “Lord I want to come back.”
And he’s been restoring me slowly but surely.
I’m really thankful to be here.
I went from a wannabe gangster to a real Christian. And the most gangsterous thing I did was giving my life to the Lord. I was blind but now I see. I was once dead, but now I am alive. Thank you God!”