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Sold as a five-year-old
Much of her debt was with one lady in the village. In that family they needed someone to help in the house and in the shop. My mother took me to her to pay her debt. She told me: “She will make sure you have enough to eat. She will send you to school. Make sure you obey her. Call her ‘mother’. My mother turned around and started to walk away. I cried. I called after her. She did not turn around. Her back is the last thing I ever saw of my mother.” The woman who tells me this is now sixty years old. She has had a hard life, and she has become hard herself. My heart is breaking when I hear this. I am here to bring the Gospel. I believe God changes people. That is nowhere so clearly displayed as in a loving family. If there are just a few people here who have become better parents because they have come to know the love of the heavenly Father, I’m a happy man. Then my life has been successful. Photo: Icepunk Leave a Reply |
“I do not remember my father. Not long after I was born, he left the family. My mother tried to take care of me as good as possible. She had some land, that she sold bit by bit. But her debts kept growing.