Story

Once there was a young boy who lived in the town of Cabanatuan his name was Joseph, in
short you can call him Joseph  hehe . So let us know who is Joseph.

Totoy was born in april 9,1996 in Villa Ofella in Manila. He spent his early Childhood years in
Cavite but when he was 4 years old, his mother decided to transfer to Caban ng tuwa City to
lived there.He is the second from the three siblings. During his childhood, he had experience a
lot of unusual things like working in the house, playing in the streets together with other kids.
He was very naughty and hard headed during that time, but you know luckily, he had not been
involved in any vicious vice imaginable. Imagine that he was very good when he was a child. But
when he grow and meet another people, there is something change to him his personality
change, his routine was change and all that he do was change because of the influences of
other people to his life, you know during his highschool days, he was dreaming for a success
life. he got so many dreams. He wanted to have his own family, own shelter and to become rich
and wealthy. Aside from that, he is also dreamed of becoming a Doctor. Since his father is a
Radiologist and his mother is a nurse and they were both working on the hospital before, his
dream was greatly influenced by them. He really aspired to follow the footsteps of his parents.
But then, something happened and he had not been able to fulfill that dream because of
something happen to his life. His dream of becoming a doctor was faded. So after his
graduation from high school, he planned to take a course but he wasn’t sure what to take. Then
one day, upon staying in our church where he was serve as an altar server, a priest who is close
to him approached him and asked him if he want to enter in their seminary. On that moment,
he said “No! I don’t want.” But the priest said, “Just try.” Since that moment, he can’t already
help but he bothered. totoy been curious of what does the seminary life offers. When he come
to think of the word “seminary”, matters about priesthood eventually enters to his mind. But
that priest explained to him that it doesn’t mean that if you enter the seminary, you’ll be
applying for priesthood already. The priest said to totoy that, “Seminary life is not exactly about
priesthood, but it is about knowing yourself.” The priest had been thinking that totoy not yet so
sure to his vocation, in that moment of time, the priest is right about it. That totoy wasn’t yet
sure of what he want to be. That incident had reminded totoy of the famous saying in the
seminary: “Not knowing where to go is not knowing what to do.”
After that, totoy invited to take an exam in the seminary. he passed the exam but he
wasn’t really conviced to enter the seminary due to some uncomplied requirements. So he
stopped his formal studies for a year and enrolled in a technical vocational school to learn how
to sew and to design. Totoy studied that only for two months then after that, another priest,
one of his close friends, invited him to attend to their vocation seminar. So he tried to accept
the invitation once again. It is in that particular event that his heart got caught. Totoy decided
to try to live in the seminary trying to know if he really have that what they call vocation.
 In his initial years, totoy experienced a lot of struggles and difficulties, and he even
decided to leave the seminary, but instead of being carried away because of his personal
problems he decided to be resilient and to try to stand again.

You know totoy now is continuing persevering to what kind of life he choosen, he is now
Brother, and he had now his religious name and vows. Despite of difficulties he experience
Brother Zach is now truly to his self to serve God all the days of his life.