As a child (during Mongolia’s Marxist days) I was very interested in singing. The Russian teacher I had at that time taught me how to sing traditional Russian songs, and I was in the choir led by the same teacher at the Russian school I attended. All my free time was spent singing in the choir, and I felt sure that this would be my life, my vocation, my hope. My other studies received only minimal attention. After a year of singing, I received an invitation to sing at the Russian Cultural Center where there was an annual singing competition among Mongolians. I won this competition three times. The prize was a holiday at a Russian resort.

Subsequently, I was invited to sing in concert in Irkutsk. It was after this that a number of Mongolian composers began to ask me to sing songs they composed for me. There were many that I recorded and sang in concert, but two of these became particularly popular. Even today, years after I stopped singing, these two are still popular and often heard on the radio and TV. One is about Mother, which I sang when I was in eighth grade. The other is about the memories of life as a teenager. This I recorded when I was in ninth grade. During this time, I thought of nothing but being a singer. When I became a Christian, however, I totally lost this desire. My whole focus became seeking and knowing the Lord.

Until I was 19 years old, I was so full of fear about death. Questions about death were continually on my mind. I wondered, "Why does a person have to die?" I knew that death would come to everybody, but the thought of it began to affect everything in my life, my job and my very purpose for living. Nothing else seemed to matter. Whether I was rich or poor made no difference. So for me life became empty, without meaning.

But one day when I was at home, I saw a program on TV about Jesus and many people whose lives have been changed by Him. Most amazing to me was what the moderator said. He said, "Whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." These few words pierced deeply into my heart. At the end of the program, an address in Moscow was shown, so I quickly wrote it down. Immediately after the program I wrote a letter saying, "Please, send me more information about eternal life."

Shortly I forgot about this letter and just began to talk as if someone was with me but I didn't realize at that time that I was speaking with God. Of course, I didn't know the word "Amen" or "in Jesus' name" or any of the words so commonly used when we pray. I just asked Him, "If you're there, please help me with my work and my daily concerns." That's all.

Then about a month later, I received a letter with a little booklet from Moscow, titled Road to Eternal Life, by Bill Bright. As soon as I received it, I shut my door and started to read very carefully. In the back of the book was a page to fill in indicating when I had accepted Jesus as my Savior. I recorded the day, month and year. It was April 7, 1992. At the end of this booklet was also a little prayer intended as an example of how to pray. I thought this prayer was the only way to reach God, so I tried to memorize it word for word. Again and again I repeated this prayer, stumbling through the words at first, until finally I prayed without a pause or wrong word. I then felt sure that God was listening.

I could not find anyone in Mongolia who believed in Jesus, so I thought maybe I should go to Moscow to meet Christian people and talk with them about Jesus. But then God brought one Mongolian man into my life who told me that there was a church in Ulaanbaatar called Eternal Light Church, which he attended. I was so interested I went with him to that church and soon became a member.

When I began attending this church, I realized that I was a big sinner. I had always thought of myself as quite a good girl--disciplined, honest, OK. I soon realized that this was not really the truth. As I started to look inside myself I realized that it was quite the opposite. I knew that I was, indeed, a sinner in need of a Savior. As I have continued to look within myself I have grown in my dependence on Jesus and I am much less inclined to spend my time judging others.

Now my life has a new meaning, a purpose to live for, and the fear of death has vanished. Now a new peace dwells within my heart such as I have never before experienced. My fear changed into peace, emptiness changed into fullness of joy for life.

Before, I couldn't taste the goodness of life, but now the taste is delicious. Now I know that only the true God can give me or anyone this peace that comes of living in harmony with Him. Anyone who believes in His Son can experience it. Now I am serving and living for Him and for my dear Jesus. Praise be to the Lord! He is worthy to be blessed!

Recently, I have begun to feel a desire to sing for the Lord. Except for singing in the choir at my church, I had otherwise given up singing during the years I've been a Christian. I have gradually come to realize, though, that the Lord loves to hear the praises of His people. There are so many places in Scripture where this is mentioned. That is why I have come to feel that if God opens the door for me to sing for Him, I will gladly follow and sing His praises. For those who read my testimony, whether Christian or non Christian, I want to encourage them and to conclude with these Words of God:

'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).