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Personal Narrative: Change Never Feels So Good

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Change never felt so good
Kaylyn Settle

As a young kid I always dreamed of leading people younger than me or even just being able to help them. Career choices as a kid for me consisted of wanting to be a major singer, being a nurse or being a vet. once I got older and I never thought I would get the opportunity to sing in front of anyone or help anyone till I started going to church. I started getting into church my sophomore year of high school. I loved it, church was my place with an extended family where I could go and be comfortable with everything in life and I didn’t have a worry in the world. I made new friends and brought some of my friends and led them to the lord. After a few months I was on top of the world it felt like, my life had changed so much. Even though I was never really a bad kid and never went with what stereotypes were saying about students in junior high to high school, yet I …show more content…

With the power of trusting in God and committing my life to him all my life plans soon changed. The change was such an amazing thing for me, and before I felt like change would never do anything, and I’d be the same person just trying to act like someone that I wasn’t or just keep going through the same old boring things that I never changed in life. I started trying to lead my youth group along with others, I was so afraid of failing or leading them down the wrong paths but after putting forth the effort it actually was working for us to come together more and I did feel like a leader for the kids who were younger than me, they started looking up to me. As a person trying to be a role model I went from being a kid, goofing around not taking church seriously, to now being someone that students younger than me will look up too. Through any up and every down this change has never felt so good, and I will never take for granted this

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