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I was born in Novosibirsk Russia. When I was a year and a half I was sent to an orphanage because my biological mother wasn't able to take care of me. At the age of four I was adopted by my first family. During my stay with them from the age of 4 to the age of 12, my life changed dramatically. I wasn't a very happy, uplifting child. When I was at church I knew this was where I belonged.
One year I went to church camp, and it was super fun. I was not a very outgoing person like may of the teens. well during the week I started feeling comfortable in my own skin and being around teens my age. It was at the end of the week, when it was almost time to got home I started going back into my little dark, sad shell. My church choir teacher and my pastor noticed it and they asked if I needed to talk because they noticed that I started getting quiet. So while everyone went to church, we went out and sat on the benches and I told them almost everything that was going on at home. I told them that I was being abused and starved. Once we were done talking we went to the church building.
Everyone was singing and having a grand time. When we were done the pastor went up and started preaching. Then we started praying. My choir teacher asked if I was ready to accept the Lord into my heart, I nodded my head and we went up front and that was when I had accepted Christ into my heart. It was such an amazing feeling.
When the week had finally come to a close we drove back to our church. My mom was there to pick me up to take me home. My choir teacher asked if I wanted to tell her the good news to her and I shook my head. So she went up to my mom and told her that this week I had accepted Christ into my heart. My mom snorted and said, "I'll believe it when I see it." I was totally crushed when she said that.
Around the age of 12 was when my life had changed dramatically. My mom and dad had decided to take me to a facility and leave me there.
I was at this facility for a year and nine months. I was there for a very long time. Lots of things happened during those months. I lost my faith towards God. I wondered why God has left me to save myself from the horror life that I was living. I wondered if i would always have to go to foster homes my whole life until i was 18. I was an angry teen. Sometimes I wondered if i really did deserve everything that had happened to me.
then about 2 years ago my life had changed. I was adopted by a wonderful family. This is the family that I'm living with right now. My mom was my old church choir teacher. I just couldn't believe my luck. During that time my mom had brought me back to God. I'm so glad that my family is a christian family because if they weren't I would have never been able to find my way back to God.
I now know that God ALWAYS had a plan. He would have never left me. I'm so grateful that he has always been there for me when I felt that I had no one. He was always there to pick me back up when I was hurting. He was there with me when I was at the facility or at the group home that I went to. He knew that even though I was sent to those places he wasn't going to leave me there by myself to take care of my hurt that I had with me my whole life. I feel like God has given me a second chance in life when my first life went down hill.
He knew that I was going to get through the rough patches in my life and live my life in a faithful way. I'm still going through rough things in my life but I have to trust in God and let him deal with everything. He has a perfect plan for me. Even though I don't have any idea what it is just yet. But I will find out sooner or later. God is awesome.
I learn new things each day about Him. From different people. That is how amazing God is. You always think that this is what is going to happen then out of nowhere this happens and its like, " what just happened." That is how amazing God is and how awesome His work is for us.
I love my forever family.
I will try to write on this blog as many times as I can.
Your faithful friend, daughter, and sister,
Victoria Plaskett
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