• Grew up having a bad relationship with my mom
• At 17 I left to live with my boyfriend and started smoking
• Within months I was already pregnant
• Constant problems with my boyfriend made me go back to my mom's house
• Decided to give my life to God
• My way of being and reacting to others changed for better, now I am truly happy.

Even though I started attending the church since I was 5 years old, that didn’t stop me from growing up a trouble-maker. By the time I reached my teen years, I found myself a very proud person who would always be looking for reasons to fight. I wouldn’t let anyone tell me anything or to even look at me in a way that I didn’t like, out of anything, I would start arguing and picking up a fight.

At home, my relationship with my mom didn’t help. We always argued and the fact that I couldn’t trust her led me to look for the happiness I lacked in the wrong places. By the age of 17, I was pregnant and living with my boyfriend- away from my mom. I started smoking and arguing with my boyfriend a lot to the point of not being able to take it anymore. In seeing how unhappy I was, my mom gave me the option of going back home to live with her, and so I did.

At this point in my life I realized that I now had a baby to look after and to set an example for, and so I decided to give my life to God. Since then, there’s been a noticeable change in my way of being. Now, I have a good relationship with my mom, I can communicate with her without the need to argue, if I find myself in a problem, I work to resolve it instead of fighting over it and I don’t feel self-conscious about what people think about me anymore. Now, I can get along well with anyone and I can say that I am truly happy – I can’t stop smiling!

Jessica Aguilar

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