“I felt a hunger, like the life of salvation.”

When she had finished talking, she kept quiet. She asked me, “[Mary], what do you think?” I told her, “I have accepted Jesus as my Lord.” She started praising. We left the room when she was so happy. She told my sister, my sister is called [“Janet”]. She told her, “[Mary] has got saved.” When I stayed there for a few days, I came back [to Mbale].

Now the preparations were underway for us to get married in January. When I came back, people were already spreading new rumors. Because there was nobody else who had got saved this side [of Uganda]. And people thought I had gone mad because they saw me returning things which I had taken—putting things right. Some things I had stolen. Some things were from my boyfriends—I took them back to those people. Because the Bible says, “A person accepts with the heart and has to speak with the mouth about salvation.” So God showed me that. God showed me: “This, this one is not yours. That one. That cloth is not yours. That dress.” In fact when I took all of the things back, I had only one dress remaining. And everything was taken back to the owners, who had given them to me.