"I'm so excited to talk about this retreat. Basically, I've been Catholic all my life, my mom is a teacher at the Catholic middle school, and I've gone to church every Sunday. It was almost like everything I did at church was a habit, and I never thought about it. You go up for Communion, you say, 'Amen'; you go sit down and thank God. I never thought about it, and spending a whole day on the retreat just talking about the Eucharist was just awesome. It just made me in awe, like wow, thanks! And then Sunday about the cross was like 'Geez, let's talk about this here!' I did like the whole thing.
     I'm a junior, and when I was a freshman I remember sitting in church and hearing all the people say 'a retreat is such a good thing, you need to go, it will change your life.' All right so I want to do this. But then I was like, I'll go next semester, and then next semester. So now I'm a Junior, and this is after semesters of not going. Finally I was like why don't I just go? I was probably the first one to register, I was like it's $45 and I can't take it back, that's it.
     I went, and it was cool, I met people, got to the room. Basically it was an awesome thing to do and it was like, I go home now and pray and get my candles out and I turn on my lights, and I have my church music on. And I seclude myself, and I've never really been able to do that and really talk to God. Usually, I would just be so tired laying in my bed, say, 'Oh God, thank you for everything, and thank you for all the things I usually pray for.' I used to do that….
     I just wanted to say that I never used incorporated God in my conversations with my friends. So I thought to say that God really blessed me -- that my friends would look at me like 'what?' I went home and I told my mom and dad the whole story about everything. We never talk about that. This is something that I was blessed with- the gift of just being able to spread it. I've never been able to spread the word before. I wasn't embarrassed; I just thought that they wouldn't understand. But the more I do it the more people are like 'you went on this retreat? I want to go!'. I'm probably taking twenty people to church on Sunday because they all want to go because I'm talking about it. I just thank God for the ability to actually go out and thank him by telling people about his works."           Susan Gill

      Other Testomonials:
"I really did want to go but…" Camilo Forero
"The best $45 this shop-a-holic has ever spent!" Tomisha Eton
"It was the best time I've had in a long time " Rudie Ibanez
"I almost didn't make it back…" Kristy Pagan

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