I give THANKS to my 1st best friend, Johnny Santa Cruz,
Well i just had to respond to this one as it was a John Santa Cruz who first made me aware of Jehovah`s Witnesses who was a co-worker of mine here in Australia and was instrumental in getting me to be baptised about 18 months later in the 1960`s.
He had been brought up in the religion had his own problems and was just getting back into it when he contacted me.
A very sensitive guy who was different from my usual friends and was a bit paranoia about persecution because they had the "truth" and that somehow appealed to me a bit .
One thing he said to me after I was in it for a couple of years was "one day you will probably hate me for bringing you into this religion "
But I never blame him for that ,it was my choice my decision .For my own reasons .
And after I left the job where we worked together at I lost contact with him and that`s going back to the 1950`s .