well, I got the email saying that you guys added this new
page and came right away to be one of the first to write.now I can tell the world what you and youthofamerica means
to me.
It has been a year and a half since I first wrote to you
about my problems with gangsters. I had been taught by the
mormon faith for twelve of my 17 years and then was
introduced to a new and what looked exciting world of drugs
sex and guns. As a girl hanging with the crew I was allowed
to think that I was special. Even when I allowed that false
security and my emotions to give my very self to so many of
those guys who acted so tough and seemed cool. Before I
knew it I was doing drugs and sleeping with so many men I
never even remembered what they looked like let alone what
I did.
And then I came across your site. It was like a fluke or
something, until that first letter when you said it was God
whom was telling me it was time to get my act together. I
must admit, when I received that reply from you I first had
missgivings. I thought you were thinking you were way cool
and nothing bothered you and you were right to the point.
Yet I could NOT sleep that night and stayed awake the
entire night till I got the courage to go to the one girl I
could trust who had the only computer in the neighborhood
to write you once more. I needed that direct responce, the
encouragement and the will to believe I was special and God
had a plan for me.
Your second letter was the hook that caught the devil in me.
Rock, thank you. And so much will I remember that God LOVES
me cause you showed this to me in your constant writing and
encouragement. I still sometimes cannot grasp the reason
behind my first letter, but the ending suits me just fine.
For now I know Jesus. And I have been living a good life
and attending a baptist church in texas.
thank you and do not worry about those men who took your
book, yes I read it tonight and am so sorry that you never tell us your prayers and needs. But I now know that with God all is possible for he changed my life and I
know he will change them for He knows what you are doing
and I told him what you did for me.
I am crying now and so I will go. But my tears are of joy
for you and yours and me and all who I will tell this
exciting news to.
Thank you rock for being REAL and PULLING no punches and
STICKING with me through this past YEAR and a HALF!
o