You mentioned needing testimonies of how people came to know the lord and asked him to save them from their sins and give them endless life. My Testimony is below.

I was raised as a Roman Catholic and although I always believed in the Lord I wanted to know Him a whole lot better then I did but no one told me how to be saved until I was eighteen. When I was a Junior in high school I was sitting in the cafeteria after lunch waiting for my special ed class to start since there was no where else to go. While I was sitting there a boy came to me and introduced himself to me as Michael Latodda. He told me that the Lord wanted to have a relationship with me and be my friend and we talked a lot on an almost daily basis about salvation. He and his family had been Catholics but after they asked the Lord to give them endless life they left the Catholic church and joined a Baptist church. Well for several days after our talks when I realized that Michael wasn’t talking about philosophy the Holy Spirit convicted me that I was dead in my sins and needed to ask the lord to live in my heart and save me from sin’s affects. Well I thought about it a lot and knew that I always had to live right and trust the lord for all things but I was nervous since I was worried that if I blew it the lord might not be that thrilled with me. I talked to a classmate a girl in my English class about the Lord right before I asked Jesus to save me and then the next day I was feeling grumpy about having to be in school at all due to legal issues of always having to be in school. Well we were in English this girl and myself and the English teacher was discussing how to make sentences make sense when we were writing essays or book reports and I kept thinking this is so boring and why do I even have to be stuck in this class. My friend and i were sitting next to each other at our desks and suddenly I was awed and terrified when I saw a blinding studio light in the classroom. I wanted to leave the classroom but I knew that I couldn’t explaine to the teacher why I suddenly wanted to leave. At the same time my friend also saw the blinding light of god’s presence as well. After class she told me what she had seen and I told her that I too had seen the same awesome light. Then I asked her if the sun was out and she let me know that the day was extremely cloudy without any sun. Before we had left class we both prayed that Jesus would be our Savior and though we were quietly praying out loud no one heard us praying to him. Well that’s how I met the Lord in a personal way and now my high school friend and i have endless life even if our bodies die first. I pray that my testimony will cause you too to ask the Lord in to your heart forever too!

Pam