Hi my name is Laken Lanoux I am 15 years old and my story is.......about a year ago I made 2 sucide attemps one because of a friend she told me I should just kill myself 1 wasnt worth being in this world and another because of a guy i didnt keep up with myself bcuz i thought I was ugly anyways, I never wanted to do anything out of the house  Ii didnt wanna get out of the house. then one day I was talking on the phone with a friend of mine and he was telling me about god and I told him to shut up cuz i didnt have anything to do with god and not to talk about that or to even mention the word GOD I said I didnt have anything to with god because he let me down. then in january of 2005 I a met a very special friend of mine Jamie Bolden shes my cell leader and best friend shes a wonderful  women of god she is who got me into being a christian I saw her and how happy she was and how much fun she had and I told her Iwanted whatever she had and she told me that she had the gift of god and that being a christian isnt about being all serious all the time you can still have fun and i said no thank you I dont really trust in god and she said that I should because he loved me and died for me. we met at the skating rink and she just told me about cell and how it was like a bible study and that we could just hang out and be friends first that I didnt have to go to church and stuff if I didnt want to and I told her I wouldnt mind just going to cell and stuff if she would be my friend because I really liked her (so I went for all the wrong reasons but I did the right thing eventually) she said that she would love to be my friend and that nightIi went to her house and we talked and I just poured my heart out to her (she was the first person I ever poured my heart out to) we went to the movies the next night and she asked me if I wanted to say the prayer and I said no the first couple times but she asked me on January 17th 2005 at her house when I stayed the night and I accepted and we said the prayer and we prayed together afterwards and all and ever since then ive been really making progress she comes and gets me every week (wednesday thursday and sunday)I have never had so many people that look up to me and wanna be like me but now I have my own cell and im teaching the word of god to other teenage girls and im inviting people to church and cell and youth and I have a great youth pastor MRS BECKY I love my cell leader and youth pastor they inspire me to never get off the road to heaven and to stay in prayer and the word of god and now I know that when I die I will see the face of my JESUS  god bless xoxo LAKEN LANOUX