Nina Sung | USAI received salvation July 24, 1998. I was 10 at the time and ever since, I could remember, was told of not being your typical child. At the age of 4, the concept of death dawned upon me almost suddenly. I remember that day vividly. There I was, with Cheeze-its (An American snack) on my napkin as I suddenly began to imagine myself one day being a big person, you know, an adult. But my imagination decided to push further. I figured that if I kept eating, I would "grow up" so much to the point where I would eventually have to be a grand-person and then... nothing. Just die. I stopped eating at that moment as I lost my breath.That day I told my mother about this revelation and refused to eat anything. I cried for a solid 5 hours, saying "I don't want to die". repeatedly.Fast forward about 6 years and suddenly, I was in a huge room with hundreds of mostly adults and older people, spending at least 7 hours a day looking up Bible passages and learning about the history of Israel. You see, it all started after having talked to my father about the end of times. My father would tell his young daughter about heaven and hell and to be so matter of fact about my going to hell since I was not "saved."  We lived in Silicon valley and my father was a computer engineer who worked in the tech world so he would pick up and read magazines about the latest and most cutting edge technology, and this time he was quick to pick up a Metro magazine with its main article being about a microchip that is speculated to be implanted in all of us eventually one day _ a chip, my father claimed, would be the mark of the antichrist. He explained that if I got that chip, the government would be able to read my mind, and know or control virtually everything else about me. What is more, he made it especially known how it would be impossible for me to ever go to heaven if I ever got that "mark" and by then, all of the saved people would be long gone because of this mysterious "rapture." "but how?" I asked my father. How do I get saved? And what does it even mean to be saved? What do I have to do? Learn and memorize the entirety of the bible?"All of these questions swirled around my head day and night. I knew that my entire family was saved but me, which added to my agitation and anxiety. It got so bad where I couldn't even leave my parents' side for very long. My parents saw my actions and perhaps got so tired of dealing with my intense paranoia that they told me about a Bible conference that was happening soon in LA where it was likely that there, I could get saved. At that time, I was 10 years old.Before I knew it, I was on a plane with my mother flyi

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