Telling the World

So I've told my grandparents and family, so the next step in the plan was to tell the world; announce it on my facebook profile and explain in a blog. I didn't think I'd be nervous about this. I thought it would be a relief to tell everybody but... NERVES!!
stupid butterflies
Here's a shot, a rough draft of my explanation to the world.

"I know this will come as a big shock to most of you, its a big shock to me too, but I've become Catholic.
For the past year I've been studying Catholicism. I talked to priests, my own protestant youth ministers and councilors, a Grad School professor from Harding Graduate School, and a friend at my old church who converted from Catholicism. I've read early christian writings, the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (say that 5x's fast), A Popular History of the Church, Reasoning from the Scriptures with Catholics, and lots and lots of other books, not to mention in the least the Bible, which I finally made all the way through this year. (not counting the Apocrypha, I've only just began reading that)
I want to forestall any warnings by saying that I fully plan to continue searching and learning. If even 40 years from now I find that Catholicism no longer makes sense to me I'll leave it in a heart beat. Recently I found I website with all the early christian writings on it. I hope to find them in book form but regardless that's next on my book list

From all my research I have come to the conclusion that Catholicism's theology is the most faithful to the way the early church was set up. It's theology makes sense to me and I believe it is hypocritical to pretend that I believe otherwise.

I did not want to become Catholic. I frantically searched for every single minuscule argument against Catholicism that I could find and terrorized my RCIA teacher so much that at one point he jokingly said he expected me to join when hell froze over. (RCIA is a class they give at catholic churches where people who want to join or to simply understand Catholicism go. The class usually reads through the Catechism together) It was only after I was left with no other plausible argument against Catholicism that I bowed to truth.

I do not feel as if my relationship with God has changed. I believe that I was assured of heaven as a Protestant and I still believe that as a Catholic. I also still pray to God.

I want to ask that those of you reading this would not talk to my family members about this. They are having a hard enough time accepting this without you bugging them. If they broach the subject to you, then feel free to jabber away all you want, but other wise come to me with your questions, and please respect my family.

Also;
I do not believe (nor do other Catholics) that you can work your way to heaven
I do not, nor do other Catholics, worship Mary or any of the Saints, or the Pope
I have not found the practises of Catholics to be burdensome but to be spiritually faith deepening
Catholics read their Bible, in fact their service contains more of the Bible than most Protestant Churches
If you go into a Catholic church, you will find the same mix up of people who fervently want to be there and those few stragglers ho get dragged there. Contrary to popular Protestant-Belt thought not all Catholics are blase' about their faith.

I know that there are many other things that my protestant friends will have a problem with but I just wanted to address the top ones I've run into. Granted, they are very quickly address so I know that many of you will still have questions about it which I welcome. I only ask that you please don't beat my head in any form or fashion. This confession-thing is stressful enough."

There, how do you think that will blow over with everybody?