narrative

Being born in a very small and boring city, Angel Quiles didn’t think it was really all that fun. There were times that he just stayed home all day doing nothing but watch television, play video games, or practice his instruments. It wasn’t until he was eleven, when he had to move to Florida so that he could be closer to his father. He was raised to be a Catholic, but all of that changed when his Father took him to his Pentecostal church one Sunday morning. He couldn’t help but notice so many people crying, shaking, and running around the whole church like it was a playground. Also, while the service was happening, there were so many people swaying their hands from side to side, shouting out “Glory to God” and “My soul worships you Jesus.” He wasn’t used to that. He thought to himself “these people are crazy,” because in Catholic churches they recite verses from the bible, sing quietly, and sit down the whole entire service. There were a lot of times when he thought to himself “this isn’t a church, because these people are acting like it’s a carnival or an amusement park.” Five years passed that he stopped going to his father’s church, for many reasons and situations that happened throughout the years, so he didn’t want to go knowing that he was being a hypocrite and fake. Angel went back to church because he had an experience with God in his room one night. It was just like any other night when he was playing video games doing nothing, when all of a sudden his gaming system and television turned off. He just thought that the power went out, so he went to the hall way and sees that the light was on and his family was watching a movie, he went back to his room and the television and gaming system was back on. At first he was thinking that it was his sister or grandma that was pulling a prank or trying to scare him, they weren’t. He continued playing when it happened again, everything just shut off. He turned it back on, but at the same