My Family Experiences

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My first memories of realizing that my family was a part of Christianity was when I was around five or six years old. At the time my family was stationed in El Paso after my dad came back from being overseas. The church that my family attended was the church of God and Christ. We used to attend church every Sunday. The Church of God and Christ is where southerners say all of the “holy-rollers” attended or the very religious attended. My parents were not really holy-rollers themselves but we attended this church because my dad wanted my family attend because he always attended church as a child while he was growing up in Mississippi. He wanted my mother, sister, and I to be exposed to Christianity as well especially my mom because growing up she did not really attend church.
Furthermore, my family lived in Texas for about three to four years. I do not remember a whole lot about attending church back other than we went. For instance, there are some profound memories that I remember about attending. The first memory is of my dad getting baptized. I did not understand at the
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My mom, grandmother, and uncle all lived on welfare when my mother was a child. My grandmother was a single mother and she tried to raise my mom the best that she could (I don’t know much about my uncle), but she they both do have their shortcomings. Some of the behaviors that my mom and grandmother have exhibited are: they do not know how to cook or like to cook, my grandmother tries to encourage living on welfare and she always talks about it proudly, my grandmother always gets into arguments with everyone and she has alienated everyone on my mom’s side of the family and my family and I are the only people she knows who are willing to accept her phone calls, and there is just a long list of problems that have stemmed from my grandmother that I cannot

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