 Good morning from everybody. We're really excited to welcome Sister Lorraine to our question here at MCC and masha'Allah she's here to take shahada and come into the declaration of faith in order to come into the religion of Islam. So Lorraine the way we normally start is just asking you a little bit about yourself if you could tell us who you are and a little bit about your background. Sure. I'm Lorraine. I came from Philippines. I came here in America since five years ago I would say and I used to be in Catholic. I used to be in kind of this field with foundations. Since I came here in America there's not too much a lot. Counting foundations like this or events get together and I felt like I'm starting using track and so I started studying on which religion I wanted to actually convert for myself and then from since I'm Christianity I studied kind of a lot of different type of field in religion and I ended up in Islam. It makes sense to me that where it started and where it ends from Torah event to Bible and then it went to Koran. So that's when I decided that you know what I'll convert but I have to get more idea on what really is them is. So I've been studying listening to Koran and getting more understanding and now here I am. Lorraine, can you tell us a little bit about how you ended up here at MCC, what city you live in? I live in Davis City. I've been trying to convert but I couldn't find a good mosque that I really want to be like excited you know like this and I was searching in TikTok and then I seen one of the ladies or one of the sisters here was doing speech and then someone took a video and posted and I was like oh this is really nice foundation and actually I was looking for the name but I'm like MCC as well. I'm a surgeon in Google and that's what I found and then I give a call and I emailed and I'm like hey you know try and convert at one inquire and how does everything work and I think when you're called me and then please call me too and then that's when I ended up here. So there's some benefits to TikTok after this? Yeah it really is. So I think you were sharing with me how it was somebody reciting for that and recently so my guess is it was actually from the most recent woman's conference and likely it was Deva, Madi and then you did the reciting for that. Might have been how you found that clinic in Pamela and found a square. We're so happy to have you. Inshallah before we take the next step sister Lorraine like the one of the things that we normally do is just kind of pause and ask if there's any questions you have and I'll also explain the steps of what it is we're doing but let me just pause and ask a lot of questions here. I really don't have questions but I'm really excited and getting more learnings. So far I know what's from Spons and what is you know but I don't really have a good study but this is a learning you know every day it's a learning and I'm going to learn for myself and I'm going to learn from everyone as well. Exactly one of the things that we can share with you that you know in terms of these next weeks days and weeks and months are really a step by step slowly but surely slowly but surely we consider because Islam is a way of life it's everything surrounds everything you're doing your entire lifestyle it very much is a marathon and not a sprint. It's a little by little by little as you're training for a long marathon. I feel like Islam is no end and you're gonna have to learn every day. Exactly right. Inshallah it's as if you've been here with us the entire time. I know I'm not but I'm here. So wonderful to have you here. And so the next part of what we do inshallah together because I know all of these ladies sitting here all of them want to come hug you you know just gonna just be aware and there's going to be lots of hugs happening. I don't hug, yes. Before we get to that point inshallah now we get to the testification of faith or the shahada. The shahada is the first of our pillars of Islam and in the shahada we repeat and I'll say in English and then I'll say in Arabic and I'll go very slowly because we'll I'll do a couple words you'll do those same words and we'll kind of go back and forth until we recite the whole of Arabic and then English. I also can um yes I can and I don't like them. I also give the opportunity to all of our ladies here to actually repeat the shahada along as well and the reason for that is it's always good to renew your testification of faith kind of renew that commitment to what it is that you believe in inshallah. So actually this will be a group process if that's okay. Yes. Very exciting. Excellent and so what we'll be doing inshallah is basically saying the first part of the statement says there is no god but Allah. I bear witness there is no god but Allah is cracking me a little. That's amazing. I love it. And the second part is I bear witness that Prophet Muhammad exactly Allah. And so let's do this in Arabic and shall we slowly be sharing? I can try but correct me. I'm happy for it. Inshallah. Allah. If you'd like to repeat together we can do it together. The whole group as we mentioned. Shall we do it together ladies? Yeah. Let's do it this way now. Rasulullah. I bear witness that there is no deity except for Allah and I bear witness that the Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him is the messenger of Allah. Takbeen. Welcome. Welcome Stirlorain. We're so excited to have you in the faith. I'm so so happy that you're here with us. I can't wait to get to know you more and more and more as the days and weeks go on. Inshallah. Here come all the hugs. I also want to do if it's okay just a moment. I know we have our sister here. Please remind Kamila who converted two weeks ago. Two months ago. Inshallah. And it's coming. Inshallah. You were with us two weeks ago for the women's conference and converted two months ago. Also there are new mashallah in the faith. And so you're here to support sister Lurain. Inshallah. So we met together. You met together. Would you like to inshallah say a couple of words for us too? Yeah. I'm also kind of revered. It's been a great learning process this couple of months. But I've been reading her like almost a year now. I met a friend and she's Muslim and then she like helped me and she told me you know you want to do it. Just let's go to the masjid and we live in Alamira. So we went on a Friday and I took my Shahada. It's been great. Alhamdulillah with my family because I'm also far away from home. And with my friends and you know learning all these Alhamdulillah it's been a great experience so far. It's so wonderful to have you with us, Kamila and Lurain. Wonderful. I can't wait to see the growing kind of community and starting with all the women. Inshallah. And I hope on our Friday nights we're going to see you consistently and grow together step by step. We have a small gift for you from the MCC masjid. It's a box that it's called being Muslim. Inshallah. And it's a box in which you'll find prayer book and I'll put it on there and also some books kind of just to start your journey on this that helps the process. But we are here. You're so welcome. And Sister Liz is here who's our Convert Care Coordinator. I don't know if you'd like to say a couple of words as well. Thank you for giving this opportunity to experience this and it's a great pleasure. It's beautiful and yeah until I get to work with a lot of people and I'm very friendly. Inshallah. Inshallah. Now it's time for our hugs.