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 My parents were of German descent. Both were evangelical Christians but did not practice their religion. However, they did teach me to recite Our Father from memory. When I was 14 years old, my mother and older sister studied the Bible for a while with Jehovah's Witnesses. Once, I listened in the two Witnesses who studied with my mother showed her the divine name, Jehovah, in her own Bible. That impressed me. Mother discontinued the study, and my interest in spiritual things remained undeveloped. Even so, sometime later at school, our teacher repeated all sorts of false stories about so-called sect of Jehovah's Witnesses. Since i had been to some meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses with my sister, I told my teacher that the things she was repeating was not true. 

When I turned 15, I was sent to Leningrad, now St Petersburg, Russia, to learn a trade. I shared with my roommates the little i had learned about Jehovah. However, I started to smoke. When visiting my home in Kazakhstan, it was easy for me to buy marijuana, even though it was illegal to do so. I also drank too much vodka and homemade wine. 

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