So how did you respond to that in the days and weeks afterwards?

So that's a really good question because, you know, I, I try to, I try to be a man of my word.

And even back then.

And, um, and so I, I did, I gave up drinking.

I gave up smoking weed.

I gave up going to all of these different things that I was doing and, um, but I was still hanging out with the same group of people and it was really, really hard to change and I couldn't do it, you know, and I kept falling into the same, same stuff that I was doing, but now it was worse because I had all this guilt because I knew what I was doing was wrong too, you know? Um, and so I struggled, I really struggled and, and this went on for about a month and, And in March the, at the end of March is when the confirmation happened, the actual, the mass.

And I, I very clearly remember praying for the grace to make a lasting change.

You can give yourself holy to the Lord in many other ways.