I can see this, Yes sis
It still was not one minute you did not even know about God or that you were a sinner who deserved condemnation, to all of a sudden Knowing God, and you were a sinner, and all of a sudden, the HS opened your eyes and you had faith at the very same SECOND.
I personally believe the HS had been working on you for longer than just a few days, what caused you to look at the word. how long had you been thinking of looking at the word?
I think we will see (when we get to heaven) there was many thing going on in our lives sometimes for months or years where God was working on our heart. and at the right time and the right place (when he knew we were ready) all those things came together and you became the tax collector who fell on your knees.
Not saying this to argue with you, or say your wrong, this is just what I have witnessed in so many people. and what I believe.
I knew about the concept of God, that some people did believe He existed. I never did believe He existed. One day I read the gospel (because I watched a show on Nostradamus and thought Jesus might be the same, where people believed He could tell the future, but I wasn't sure about if He predicted the future or not). So I was looking for if He told the future.
I wasn't sure where to find The part of the book where Jesus came in so I started at the beginning but I saw the literary device of fairytale, even down to the poisoned piece of fruit and the prince and princess, although I thought it was a poorly written fairytale.
So then I skipped to the end. I recognized the literary device there right away too. It was science fiction, but once again, I thought it poorly written science fiction., but it piqued my interest as to why some of the words were in red ink. So I found more red ink and figured out that the red ink had led me to the part I wanted, to see if Jesus said anything about the future.
So I began reading where the red ink started. Sometime between Mathew and john, I suddenly saw that impossible as it seemed, it was the truth. I was very distraught. Not about sin. I still didn't even understand exactly what was sin and what wasn't. I was so distraught because I had ignored God all my life because I hadn't even believed He existed.so when I was on the floor shrieking and breaking into a million pieces, my only thought, over and over again was: I'm so sorry I didn't know I didn't know oh my god I'm so sorry.
So if you need me now to say it didn't happen in one moment that I could see, I can't. I saw in one moment when the moment before I hadn't seen.