Transcripts: Enjoy Life Forever!

Jehovah Took Us In: Adam and Nancy Solomon.
[Sepa Photos of a man with two children and a woman with dark hair. Nancy Solomon]
Nancy: My family are Hungarian Jews.
[Video of Hitler]
Most of them were killed in concentration camps.
[Nazi army marches]
That’s something that the Holocaust took from me
[Two Jewish women weep]
it took the concept of family.
[Names on documents]
I needed explanations. I needed to know why my family was murdered.
[Photo as a young girl]
It made me really search at a very young age to see if there was a real religion out there.
[Nancy passes a building]
It was just a secular thing to be Jewish; it was a cultural thing.
[On an iron gate, the Star of David]
A friend of mine came up to me and said: I have to tell you something.
[Eternal life book]
“I got this book from one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is the most beautiful book I have ever read.” I said, “Oh, I’ll read it.”
[Turns page]
And it couldn’t have been a week later that I got a knock on my door, and there were two young women at the door who started to talk to me about the Bible.
[In a brown coat, she walks through a city]
Once I started having a study on a regular basis with Carolyn, I enjoyed it more and more. [The Star of David in a gold menorah]
One day my father was home. He just screamed at them and basically threw them out of the house.
[Shaking her head]
It just progressed after that. There was just no peace at any time
[Rain pours]
and a lot of tears. And I just couldn’t understand why they weren’t even asking me: Well, what is it that you like about this religion? “Who are these people? Let us talk to” No, nothing. It was very, very hard.
[She closes her eyes]
Shortly after my baptism, my mother came up to me, and she said: Your father and I are going out for the day. You better not be here when we get home.” I was 17 years old. I didn’t know where I was going to go. I didn’t know what I was going to do.
[Two suitcases]
But I trusted in Jehovah. And I picked up the phone, and I called my Carolyn. In what seemed like minutes, there were brothers and sisters at the house. They were putting my things into this truck and bringing it over to Carolyn’s house. And she said, “You can live with me.”
[A smile spreads across her face]
Before I was baptized, I would drive back and forth to school with a friend of mine. Little by little, I was telling him what I was learning. He said: You know, I want to meet these people. I have some questions.”
Adam: I had questions. I asked them: Why do we die? Why do we grow old? and so forth and so on. And they went right to the Bible,
[Photo of the two teens]
and when I left the house after that, I said, “This is the truth!”
[Photos of Adam as a young boy]
Growing up in my house, going to church every Sunday was something that you had to do. But when I became a teenager, then religion became less in my life, and basketball became more.
[Sneakers]
Being a young man, you’d watch sports, and you’d see that sports players made a lot of money.
[A Basketball]
My teachers would tell my parents: He’s going to be a good basketball player. Take care of him. He could be worth, you know, several hundred thousand dollars by the time he graduates.
[Letters lie on a table]
I received over 125 scholarships. Now you’re talking about a free education just because you can play basketball.
[Newspaper clippings]
So, I realized, you know, at an early age that playing professional basketball could mean a lot, not only for me but for my family.
[A family photo]
So as far as God was concerned, I had a little interest in God (like I would ask my mom questions), but it wasn’t until Nancy brought me to the Witnesses that really something just kicked in.
[He gazes through a fence]
I was studying, and my mom was downstairs in the basement. I heard her crying, and I said, “What’s wrong?” And she said, “I know you’re going to become one of those Jehovah’s Witnesses.” So, realizing in my mind that I’m not going to become a basketball player but that I’m going to become one of Jehovah’s Witnesses because that’s more important
[At a basketball court]
that affected me many, many times.
[He turns a basketball in his hands]
When others found out that I was going to become one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, people shied away. People try to use you when they think you can give them something or you’re going to be somebody big. By going the direction of serving Jehovah completely, you lost all the worldly people that you thought were your friends.
[He leaves the basketball court]
And so that was in one summer that I started the study with Brother Crespo, and in six months, I was baptized.
[Baptism photo]
Nancy: And then we decided to get married.
[Wedding photo]
The scripture that says that ‘even if my own father and my mother would abandon me,’ that even ‘Jehovah would take me in,’ it proved to be true in so many ways.
[Photos with friends]
Once you become one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, your part of a family that will do anything for you. We’ve had adversity over the years, but Jehovah never said everything was going to be perfect. What he says is that when you face these problems, you will not face them alone. And Jehovah has never let us down when it comes to that.”
[On a cold day, Nancy and Adam walk hand in hand through leaves]
(Logo: Black capital letters JW.ORG inside a white box. Copyright 2019 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania)