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While in my freshman year at college I fell into a dark place of thinking I wasn’t enough.\u00a0 I wasn’t pretty enough, skinny enough, smart enough, and I thought that I would never be.\u00a0 I never was the party type in high school, but that quickly changed once at college.\u00a0 I was going out to parties every weekend and surrounding myself with people I shouldn’t have.\u00a0 I knew deep down that the person I was becoming wasn’t the person I wanted to be.\u00a0 I didn’t admit this to myself until my sophomore year started and I told myself I would travel home on weekends or spend time studying or getting my work done.\u00a0 However, that isn’t what happened.\u00a0 I wasn’t partying as much as I did my freshman year maybe just every other weekend now.<\/p>\n

When I moved from New York to Alabama half way though my sophomore year I decided enough was enough.\u00a0 I wanted a fresh start, to become a new and improved version of myself.\u00a0 I was finally in the major that I knew in my heart was the right place to be.\u00a0 I could not have been more excited to make the eighteen hour drive down to my new home.\u00a0 When I first arrived I didn’t have any friends and I didn’t know a single person in the state of Alabama.\u00a0 I soon started to make friends but not with the people I should have been.\u00a0 It seemed that my fresh start wasn’t going as planned and I fell back into some of my old habits.\u00a0 I wasn’t proud of who I was and the decisions I was making.\u00a0 My grades were slipping while my GPA was dropping so I knew I needed to make a change.<\/p>\n

That summer I decided that I wouldn’t go out at all and I would make friends with the right people.\u00a0 I was successful in my plan with only a few bumps.\u00a0 In fall I got my new random roommates, who seemed relatively normal and nice.\u00a0 One day one of my roommates told me they were going to play wiffle-ball at their church and I asked if I could tag along.\u00a0 She said of course in such an excited manner and off we went.\u00a0 What I didn’t know at the time was that this would be the beginning of my fresh start.\u00a0 After that night, I started to go to devotionals and worship with her.<\/p>\n

Ephesians 1:7 “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace”<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After a few weeks of listening attentively to lessons from Scott, Will, and others I decided to get baptized.\u00a0 October 9th, 2016 will be a day I never forget.\u00a0 I had been thinking about if this was the right thing for me to do for around a week.\u00a0 I went to bible class at nine in the morning as usual then to worship at ten. I didn’t know that when I walked into the church that day that I would leave a new person, a child of God.\u00a0 This is the day I got my new family, bothers and sisters who would help me grow in my faith forever.<\/p>\n

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1 Corinthians 12:13 \u201cFor we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body \u2013 whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free \u2013 and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

2 Corinthians 5:17 \u201cTherefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

Now that I am about two hundred days into my new journey I really see how much everyone loves and cares for each other.\u00a0 I have made life long friends who I can go to for anything at any time of the day.\u00a0 I will forever be thankful for my wonderful roommate who asked if I wanted to play wiffle-ball.\u00a0 I still fall off the path once in a while, but who doesn\u2019t, and when I do I have plenty of people to pray for me.\u00a0 I love my new family and I would never want change the choices I\u2019ve made for myself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ephesians 4:5 \u201cOne Lord, one faith, one baptism\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Sierra Peduzzi<\/span><\/div>\n
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