I would love to share my story as I pray that this will help someone along the path to the truth, it is a very simple story of course, and praises got Allah, and yes may Allah protect me from any misfortune. The reason it took me 8 years and perhaps all of my life, is because of culture values in my family for one, as as child I had befriended a class mate and my mother had reacted so, that she scared me, you must understand, this I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, so all others were no worthy of association, was our believe.
 Well her reaction kept me away many years after that. Now 8 years ago, approximately, I had met a Muslim brother, and since I didn't know anything about Islam at the time, I only had his example to go by, and it was a poor example to say the least, in fact quite appaling. He was involved with everything under the sun, and I never saw him read the Quran, the haddiths, in fact I never heard him recall anything about Islam, other than the fact that he changed his name. I of course, had the opportunity to associate with his friends, and it was from them that I had an introduction to Allah's word. But not meaning to be judgmental, I did not see where they were following Allah's word as they were participating in things that were of Islam in my non-Islamic opinion at the time. And it seems the women were not treated fairly and the respect that I personally would require, could not have been met by those people. I will not state which sector of Islam they followed so as not to offend anyone. Well since then I had always prayed to God, and during that time my mother who has been a strong influence in my life, had become a Baptist, not a Jehovah's Witness anymore, and tried to convince me to join her. I tried but I just could not feel comfortable in the christian churches and I also informed her that as a matter of fact I don't even believe in the doctrines of Christianity and never had as an adult, so I never joined a church, I may have visited once here and there but never to return to that church, it totally turned me off. So I continued to pray and continued to be protected by Allah as I searched for the truth, but I knew the path to the truth was not continuing to attend churches so I studied on my own and used my own logic as best I could. 

During this time I had married a Christian and divorced him, we had 3 children, one who is 18 this year and on her way to college, another is living with his father he is 16 and my youngest is 12, he is with me. I have raised my children to always pray to God and respect others and they have done just so, I am very proud of them. God had blessed me many times over with them, I raised them as a single parent and have no regrets about remaining single. 

As I realized there will soon be only my 12 yr old son and I, I prayed even more for continued protection. But soon my prayers lead to requesting God to lead me to the truth as I would like to continue to raise my son in Gods path. In 1998 my prayers lead me to Islam, I remembered some things I had learned years ago and I knew those things were good things, it was just the people at that time who had not followed Gods word, so I began reading and  learning and had many questions, there is a brother where I work and he answered those questions, very soon after he put me in contact with a wonderful sister, who answered my questions for me, we followed the Quran and she showed me prove, from there I knew Islam was the truth. 
I soon met another sister that I was put in contact with and she has proven to be a true sister and answered my questions and invited me to Dar al Hijrah. I met her there and we are still in contact. :) My sisters here mean so much to me, soon after this I took my Shahada at the masjid and have been extremely happy, I of course still only personally know 3 sisters now, one is the wife of the brother I work with at my company, the others are the 2 Fatima's that mean so much to me Masha Allah :) 
Well thats my humble story and I am happy.