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In Reply to: Re: I was also in the family starting 1978 posted by Curious on February 06, 2008 at 12:01:28:
My name in the family was not Luna I just wrote this name. I met the group when I was nearly 19 and it was in 1978. The others I met either Americans or Canadian were around 10 years older than me. I left Portugal in Mei 1978 to Spain as my parents didn't agree at all with my move and people in the family found it better if I would not be found. I lived in Spain for about half year in different homes and on the road ( Bilbao, Burgos, Badajoz, Barcelona, Madrid). The homes were in Murcia and Almeria and somewhere nearby Cartagena, all in the south. Most disciples were americans with some nationals and a few north Europeans around. The man I was with a dutch fellow 24 years older than me, in fact he was quite older than all the rest. That's also why my parents thought I was making a big mistake and I was I saw later. He is still in the family, I receive every now and then a letter from him.
I was quite cute and young and could earn lots of money on the street handing out letters, or provisioning and going around with a guy with a guitar. I learned the language very quick and could talk with the people. Often guys would say they wanted to learn me better but I was so absolutely shy that I would just laugh at them and go away saying : maybe next time. I never went flirty-fishing. The other women in the home would go and I would take care of the children. Some american couples had 4 or even 5 children.
It was good that I went away from the group. It saved my life and my mental sanity as well as my children. It was just crazy to get 3 children so fast, but contraception was not allowed. I jumped from childhood into adult life from one day to the other and after that I had to work very hard to finish my education and find work and take care of my kids, but I did it. Sometimes I would cry out to God: you can't live me alone and I guess he didn't because all worked out ok. My kids are now 26, 27 and 28. I turn 49 next month. I am in good health and happy. I had taken all those memories away from my daily life. I felt very responsible for having brought children into the world and not being able to give them the proper environment and a normal man as father for them and husband for me. Sometimes things just hurt a lot and then you have to forget and start again. I only kept my king james bible and my daily might, but never use them. The rest I threw away. I moved to northern europe in the 80's and since my children went out of the home to have their own life I can travel whenever I have free from work.In Asia I learn about other cultures and other people and get to the conclusion that there are many ways of being a decent person and even christian without all the fundamentalism and weird stuff from those religious groups out there, most of them pretending to be the only ones with the rights to god's truth and his salvation.
