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Read or listen to Martha Virginia Parrales Rodríguez’s full oral history. Original interview in Spanish. An English translation is also available.

Because when one truly seeks God, when you really want to feel his companionship, the companionship of the Spirit, you know that something is missing in your life.

I remember that there was a time when I felt alone. And even though everything around me was fine-my family, my studies, in short, everything-I told the missionaries who came to visit, why does one sometimes feel alone?

And the missionaries said, perhaps it’s a lack of the Spirit. And I kept thinking, that’s true, that is what my life needs, to be closer to God. So at that time, despite the challenges I had had, I was able to seek God, I was able to draw closer to him, and I knew I should always remain there, closer to Him.

So, from that moment I have fought to remain firm. And up to this point that is what I have done.