My mother gave me life, but she didn’t take care of me. She left me and I went to live in an orphanage in Araucaria (Brazil). I stayed there until I turned 16. I left and went to live on my own. To survive, I ended up becoming a transvestite and working as a prostitute.

On the street where I worked, I fought and stole clients; I had to walk around with a weapon. I was very aggressive and nervous. I would hit anyone, for any reason.

Over time, I became a “pimp”, along with two other transvestites. So I started selling drugs to the transvestites. I would convince them to buy drugs from me and create a debt.

The money was very good. I had three apartments, which I rented out to other transvestites. I put industrial silicone throughout my entire body. There were several complaints made against me: for assault, extortion, drug trafficking, etc.

One day, when I had hit the bottom of the pit, I tried to kill myself by taking 18 pills of ecstasy at a club. I also used cocaine and drank a lot, so I overdosed and had two cardiac arrests. I saw my soul leaving my body and, at the last minute, I remembered the Lord’s Prayer. I survived.

I became depressed, had heart problems, and was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital for a while, where they kept me on controlled prescription medicine.

Until one day, as I left the hospital where I was receiving psychiatric treatment, I walked in front of the Universal Church in Sitio Cercado. It was a Tuesday. After participating in the prayer for deliverance, my life began to change.

I was introduced to the Universal’s Victory Youth Group and met people who believed in me and led me to the Lord Jesus.

Today I’m completely transformed.

I am free from homosexuality, drugs, trafficking, prostitution, sorrow, anguish, emptiness; this is, everything that made me unhappy.

I am a new man, 100% changed, full of God’s presence and happy.

Luiz