So, my parents, they didn’t finish high school, so they’re not really educated, so they just took it, whatever people say. So that was interesting. [They said] “No, don’t go to that church, that’s dangerous. They sacrifice babies,” something like that. So, it’s really interesting of how paranoid they were because all these weird rumors about how bad the church—I mean, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—how cold it is, something like that. But at that time, I just kept learning with the elders. But instead of meeting at home, I will meet at Jenny’s house, the girl who invited me to church. And I think it took me about two months or three months until I really feel the Spirit. And they asked me to pray about the Book of Mormon, whether it’s true or not, and I did, and I feel something good about it. I was not sure at the time whether it’s true or not, but I just feel good, and I feel good about going to church.
And I also like the examples the missionaries gave. So Indonesia has lots of tribes. And my tribe is known where they’re a very, I don’t know, bold people. And most of the time, people in my tribe, they’re very … the men were not … the example they gave were not as good as these missionaries. They don’t drink, they don’t smoke, they don’t party, or they don’t gamble, things like that. So, I think that makes me think like, “Wow, people can live this righteous, people can live this—”
Because I thought it’s impossible. All the examples around me just say that “Oh, it is impossible to be living like people in the Bible pretty much.” But then I saw these missionaries, and then I’m like, “Wow, it is possible.” And I like those examples, and I was leaning toward their examples, and then I think everything else started to follow easily, pretty much.
And so, my parents didn’t approve of me going to church, but then my dad … my dad is still one that [is] against the most about it. But my mom thinks, “Well, she doesn’t do drugs. She doesn’t do anything bad. So why not? It looks like she’s trying to do something good.” So, she let me to go to church, but my dad was like, “No, no, no. You will be bad if you keep going there.” So, I didn’t. I kept learning with the missionaries for four years, and never got baptized for that four years, and then until I reach nineteen years old, and I moved out of my parents’ house, just because I was done at high school, I went to try to go to different city. And then at that time I was feeling like I can live on my own. So, I moved out of my parents’ [home]. And then at the time, I start to learn more frequent with the missionaries. And then I later got baptized after being an investigator probably for four years, or four and a half years, something like that. I told my parents about it, and they’re like, “Oh, okay.”