The wise man Solomon said, “Even a child is known by his deeds, according as his conduct is crooked or straight.” (Prov. 20:11, AT) This is true of “Flor,” whose name, in English, means “flower.” In school she is truly like a flower in a thirsty desert. During classes of religion at school, the teacher often asked Flor her opinion because her comments were so reasonable. Flor was studying with Jehovah’s witnesses and she did not hesitate to speak out what she was learning. By the following year she knew enough to request exemption from the religious classes, as she wanted to break away from religious Babylon the Great and dedicate her life to Jehovah. Exemption was asked for and received. Nevertheless, after the discussions in their religious studies, her schoolmates still came to ask her, “Well, what does the Bible really say?” During recess one day, she saw the girls practicing “mental telepathy.” So Flor got out her Bible and showed the girls in Deuteronomy 18:10-13 that such things are detestable in Jehovah’s sight because they leave individuals open to the influence of the demons. Now there is no practicing of extrasensory perception among that group of girls. Flor has a reputation in her school for always having a ready answer from her Bible.

Not being ashamed to identify herself in high school as one of Jehovah’s witnesses brought unexpected dividends to a fifteen-year-old sister. One day her teacher in literature class forgot her assignment book and borrowed the sister’s notebook to check the class assignment. On the inside page the sister had written a brief prayer to Jehovah and, seeing this, the teacher asked to what religion she belonged. Upon being informed, the teacher said, “I too am one of Jehovah’s witnesses, but I have been inactive for six years.” Because of fear of losing friends she had never spoken of Jehovah in the school. On observing how fearlessly the young sister spoke of the truth to her classmates, she was so strengthened that she immediately began attending meetings again. Soon she was active in service and her chemical engineer husband began to study too. At the “Peace on Earth” assembly the husband was baptized, and in December the couple vacation pioneered together. All this because a young schoolgirl was “not ashamed of the good news”!​—Rom. 1:16.