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Hey, friends! So I wanted to show you my most treasured possession that I got as a gift for my baptism. I was baptized January 26, 2008. My teacher was one of the annointed (still alive and living in South Carolina), and she is such a great influence on me. One thing she held near and dear to her was her necklace of a Bird of Paradise (can either be the flower or the actual bird). She told me of an amazing story that during WWII when the Nazis would bring in Jehovah's Witnesses they would mock the friends by calling them "birds of paradise", since we talk about the paradise so much. Little did they know their insult was a compliment to the friends! So my teach told me, "I am a Bird of Paradise!" Before my baptism I got this exact same necklace as my teacher. And I was told that "I'm on my flight to Paradise".
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Thought this was a interesting trend, Catholic church is pretty worried about it too. I also thought it was interesting to note that in another article on this subject it mentioned how unhappy the Italian Gov't is with the churches "tax-exempt" status! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/europeans-de-baptize-church_n_1214256.html -
I dabbled a little bit in the You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth book as a child after my interest in the truth had been sparked, but it wasn't till much later and after the Knowledge that Leads to Everlasting Life that I was baptized in 2002.
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