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I grew up in a Pentecostal family, and our church, as of today, we are and always have been in the assemblies of God.

At the young age, the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the spiritual activity within the church

was introduced to me. I grew up in the church where on fire prayers were like 40 minutes,

no instruments on the stage. You were on your knees, yelling on the top of the lungs and people

were just getting really, really,

touched by the Holy Spirit. There was a gift of prophecy that was flowing regularly and the gift

of interpretation of tongues where somebody would grab a microphone and during prayer starts

intrepiting tongues. So the spiritual activity, Holy Spirit, I was not a stranger to it. When we came to the United States,

our pastor, Pastor Vasili, who founded this church, and he started to pour into us a vision,

like Pastor Zach was doing to these young people today. He would look at us, we were 13, 14 years

of age, and he would speak and prophesy into our life and say that God will use you guys.

In fact, I met a gentleman who was in one of the services 20 years ago where our pastor went on this Holy Ghost rant on the stage and just like start unloading prophetic words in us and we stirred there petrified because we were I don't know

embarrassed or scared and he would just go out it God will use you God will pour

out his spirit so we started to preach at the very young age the call of God

came bit later and our pastor noticed that preaching is one thing but we all

need to get the gift of tongues we need to get baptists and the

holy spirit and i was always nervous about those services and those meetings where we will pray

for the baptism of the holy spirit and because among my cousins and the rest of the crew and i'll just

submit to you i felt a little bit superior, spiritually.

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