Testimony

TestimonyMost students at CBU have been going to church since they can remember. Me? The first time I set foot into a church was the day I attended CBU. My parents decided when my sister and I were young that it would be up to us to decide what we believed in. They made sure we were not forced to believe in or go to church when it was not our desire.
I lived a life that I am not proud of to admit to you. I drank, did drugs, and had sex before marriage, all because I did not see the harm in experimentation.It started out with drinking. No harm I thought. Then the drinking led to the discovery of boys and their interest in me. Let’s just say his interest in me was not for my brain. One certain boy led me to my first taste of weed. Instead of saying no, I said why not? The boy played in a band and I thought he was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. In order to keep him as my boyfriend, I did the drinking, the drugs, and the sex all to insure him that I was the one. I believed that I could be the girl he wanted, the party expert.
Unfortunately, that was what I became. That certain boy did not last, but he most defiantly was not.I found my way into many more guys’ arms after. The decisions that were made were not the smartest and the actions I was doing, most certainly were the opposite of what my mother taught me.
I joined the CBU volleyball team the year I came to college. It wasn’t until my sophomore year that I met Yudelka. She changed my life. She had a similar story of rebellion as me. However, the level she got too, I would have been well on my way too if I did not met her. I saw the road I was heading and I wanted to turn around now.
I heard Yudelka’s testimony on a mission’s trip to the Dominican Republic with the volleyball team. There, one night, in a small room above a dining hall, I committed my life to God. In front of my team, hugging Yudelka, and my coach praying over me, I felt the relief to start over. No longer would my past be there to haunt me. No longer was I the party expert. I was Nicole. I was a Christian.