After the baptism, I went home and I was so radiant that my mom asked me what was going on. I shared with her that I had been baptized. Her words were, "Of course you have been baptized. We baptized you when your were a few days old."

It is then that I explained to her that I had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She knew I had been meeting with the missionaries but my baptism came to her as a total shock. She was raised Catholic and I had been raised Catholic. Although she was not attending Mass regularly, I attended more than she did. She could not understand why I had changed and she felt betrayed.

She asked questions and tried to read things on her own to try to understand. However, every time I would try to explain something to her, even things that she asked about, she would stop me and say, "I don't want to hear anymore or you are going to convince me."