 Good morning brothers and sisters. Thank you for coming out here today to witness my testimony and my baptism. Originally I'm from Haiti. I grew up Catholic and coming to the U.S. I was about 16. I didn't go to church. If I said I didn't go to church, I would stay home. It wasn't my thing. I didn't want to go to church. But if you were to ask me, I would say that I was a Christian and I was saved. But I didn't know what the word saved meant at the time. As time goes on, 2003, my cousin of mine came over on my visit and she said, she was there for three months and during that time she would say, Wilson, you're going to follow Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ, if you die, you're going to hell. To me that was kind of a new idea for me because I had never heard anybody say that before. I have had a concept of what Jesus Christ was but I didn't really understand the why. For three months every night she would read her Bible and when we go out she would say, Wilson, you're going to follow Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ, when you die, you're going to hell. Do you know where you're going? So on and on and on. And then she left and then I went and bought a Bible and started looking for church. I didn't know what kind of church to go to so in that time I started going out. I found a church, a Baptist church locally and from there I started learning some truth and fact. But I was just, in my mind I've always had doubts because I didn't go forward but at one time I would talk to a pastor and he asked me, what does it mean to be saved? I said, I don't know what it means. And then he called me to a room and prayed. Now no one looking back, it was a sinner's prayer. So I said, okay, now I'm saved, okay. So I would bought a year to get baptized, you know. But then, you know, even right after that, it's always in my mind, am I really saved? So if I watch TV, people would push on TV and then they'd call up. If somebody called a sinner's prayer, I would go ahead and pray. I'm always pretty sinner's prayer whenever I have doubts because that's what I learned. You know, if you have doubts, you're pretty sinner's prayer. And so for the longest time that's what I was doing. And I was still, you know, people who know me, they would say that I was a nice person, you know, not doing things out there. But in reality it's not the big things, it's the little things also that get you, you know. So I had a job where I moved out of state for four years. And during that time, I fell away. I was doing my own thing, sin in my mind, my heart, even though it was before, but at that time it was more clear that I was really a sinner, you know. But I didn't, to me, even though I know the Bible says no, but in my mind it wasn't really, how do I put it? I didn't see it for what it is truly. During the whole time I was sinning, you know, lying in my heart and sexual immorality, all of these. So fast forward, came back to Florida, you know, thanks to Shadrach, you know. He was at the house, I forgot how many years or months. So every now and then he would talk to me, he would say, man, I found this great church. I mean no one chatted before and then I could see there was a difference in chat, you know. And he was talking about, you know, there's this great church, you gotta come and visit, you know. So I was like, no, no, no, no. I visited one time in 2011 and then I had to go away for a job and I was gone for like almost a year plus. Came back, you know, and then Shadrach stopped picking up again, you know. Every now and then he would ask me a question about my salvation, you know, about my faith. And then during the time he would ask me questions, I was like, man, I didn't know this before, you know. And that's for the sinner's prayer, you know. I thought the sinner's prayer was in the Bible. Somebody come forward, I thought that was, you know, into the Bible. And then I would talk to him and then he would point out, no, that's not in the Bible. You know, we'll go back and forth. And he was very patient with me, like, answering my questions and asking me questions, you know. So from day to day and then I started realizing, oh man, what I believed before, you know, I was wrong. And for some reason I felt like I was cheated, like I was lied to, you know, have me coming forward. And the sinner's prayer, and then when the Bible, that's not what the Bible teaches, you know. So that process started, then fast forward to, then I started reading my Bible and then listening to the Bible, to the Bible. So we were all traveling from Pensacola area, also listening to the Bible, you know, and so forth and revelation. And it seemed like everything started to click, you know. And then I realized that how simple I was, what I deserve, the eternal punishment that I deserve. And in there, you know, through a revelation they were saying, people, even the oldest signs happening, nobody to repeat, you know. And I was like, man, all this time I could with all the sins, you know. Now is a time that I really understand what it means to be a sinner and what I really deserve. So at that time, you know, I started crying in the car while I was driving. And I was like, okay, maybe, you know, it's my English, you know, because I didn't speak English when I first came here. So I was like, okay, so I put it in Creole. And then after I listened to it, I changed it to French, you know. So I was like, maybe, so all those three times it was like, man, I started realizing, you know, God is merciful to, to send Jesus Christ to die for me. You know, like someone, who am I, you know, knowing that how simple that I am that God will choose me to come, to call me out, to follow him. And I look back, see, he had my cousin in Chad, you know, he used them to call out, to reach out to me. So, and I started coming to Cornerstone faithfully with a group and learning more and reading more. And, you know, and getting disciple by Ryan, you know, who's been helping me out. Learning more about God, he helped me stitch it through his word. So, so if I were to say, as far as my conversion, I would say it was around 2014. And that was driving, you know, and that's when everything I realized that, you know, where I was. And I would say that's where my conversion is. So, so I've been trying to get baptized. I was supposed to get baptized earlier this year, but I haven't. So today I'm here. I'm riding in the water and just to give you guys a heads up. I'm going to ask a strange request. I'm going to ask the pastor if he could dump me in the water a little bit longer. Keep me under a little bit of water so that way my sin can be washed away. So don't, don't be all alone. He's not trying to kill me anyway. Alright guys, thank you very much for listening to me. Have a blessed day. We have faith! We want to build faith? Yeah!