Hi, I'm Clyde Morgan.
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What does it take to
enter a closed country with
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the Good News of Jesus Christ?
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And what results might you
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anticipate from such an effort?
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What you are about to see is
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the incredible
account of a young couple who
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did just that.
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They entered a closed country
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more than twice
the size of Texas -
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this country of Mongolia.
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At first they
didn't speak the language
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and they knew no one.
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Here is a story that
truly only God could write.
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This expansive country
has always been known as
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wild and untamed.
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Early in the 13th Century
Ghengis Khan led Mongolians on
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conquests that resulted in
the largest empire the world
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has ever known.
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The great khans
ruled from Korea to Poland.
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They governed this vast empire
until they were conquered by
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the Chinese in the 17th Century.
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Mongolia remained under
Chinese control until 1911
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when the last
Chinese Dynasty fell.
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At that time, outer Mongolia
became independent of China.
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In 1924, the
Mongolian People's Republic
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a revolutionary and
communist state was formed.
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Tibetan Buddhism has long been
Mongolia's principle religion.
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However, in the 20 years
following the Soviet Union
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takeover, Communist persecution
slashed the ranks of Buddhist
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clergy from 150,000 to only 200.
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Christianity was
also prohibited. In fact,
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in 1990, records indicate
there were fewer than 10 known
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Christian believers in Mongolia.
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In July of 1990,
something dramatic happened.
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Protests and riots led
to the first free elections
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in Mongolian history.
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With a new government in place,
the doors that had been closed
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for so long began to open.
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It's been years since I stepped
off the train in Mongolia,
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but I remember it all.
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I was 24 years old
when I first met Brad Jolly.
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God, in His perfect timing,
had Brad's first quarter at
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Andrews University be
my last quarter there.
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He made it very clear that if
the relationship was to continue
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I had to be willing to
be a frontier missionary.
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Little did I know
of the adventure God
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had in store for me.
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We were married in 1989
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and we were still
living at Andrews University as
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Brad wasn't
finished with the seminary.
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But yet, he was concerned
that I wasn't enthusiastic
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about missions.
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Well I tried to explain
it's hard to be enthusiastic
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about something that's nebulous.
So I tried to corner him.
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"Now, where
would you like to go?"
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He'd had a good experience
as a student missionary
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for two years in Japan,
so he thought, "Well, Asia. "
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And so I said, "Ok, Asia's
really big! Where in Asia?"
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So finally he thought,
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"Well, there's a
lot of need in China. "
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We got Chinese language tapes
and we would listen to those
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at supper time.
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At that time,
Albania was a closed country,
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North Korea, and Mongolia.
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And I knew that being
a United States citizen
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there was no way we
could go to North Korea
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and Albania wasn't part of Asia,
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but Mongolia is
really close to China.
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And so I said, "Well why
don't we go to Mongolia?"
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And he looks at me with
that kind of smirky smile
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on his face, "But we can't
go there; it's restricted. "
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I kept talking about Mongolia.
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One day the Holy
Spirit convicted me
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that I needed to be quiet.
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The deep impression I got
from the Holy Spirit was that
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if I were to continue pushing,
Brad would turn and look at me
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and say, "Look at
this God-forsaken country
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you have brought me to. "
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And so, I decided I wouldn't
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mention Mongolia again.
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That evening when Brad came home
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he had checked out every
book the library had on Mongolia
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and brought it home with him.
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And from that time on, it was
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a project we worked on together.
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Brad and Cathie earnestly
began researching Mongolia.
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They decided to team up
with Adventist Frontier Missions
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and began seeking a way
into this closed country.
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Finally they found
a German missionary
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who was willing to get
Mongolian visas for them
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if they would
teach English with him.
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Brad and Cathie wrote a letter
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and mailed it to
their wedding list
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asking for support.
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The day that we
put it in the mail box
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that evening he called and said
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the whole thing was cancelled.
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Most people would think,
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"Ok, that means the doors closed
we're not supposed to go. "
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But for us, it was
a sign that God waited
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till we mailed the letters.
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Because God still had a plan
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and a way for us to go there.
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Months passed.
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Brad and Cathie and the rest of
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the Adventist Frontier Missions
staff prayed and continued to
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trust that God had a way
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for them to get into Mongolia.
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While they waited,
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Brad graduated from
the Adventist Seminary
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and they were
introduced to a man in the
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Mongolian Embassy in Japan.
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Believing he could
provide them with visas,
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Brad and Cathie packed their
belongings and boarded a plane
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bound for Japan.
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When they arrived in Tokyo,
they visited their contact
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at the Mongolian Embassy.
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To their dismay, Brad and Cathie
discovered he had no authority
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to issue visas.
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For the next several days, they
called and visited the embassy
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trusting that God
would open another door.
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A few days later,
their embassy contact
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phoned them and told them to
meet with a Mongolian professor
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working in Tokyo.
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Perhaps the professor
could help them get visas.
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So we went there
and knocked on the door.
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And it's only his wife
and his grandson there,
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and they don't
speak English very well,
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neither did they know Japanese.
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And so we understood
he wouldn't be home till
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you know, much later.
More like 8 or 9 o'clock.
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So we didn't want to just
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continue being uncomfortable
waiting in the house
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so we said we would return.
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Meanwhile we went and
found a little coffee shop and
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ordered some hot chocolate.
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And when the time
came and we returned and
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very friendly professor.
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He called the university
and made arrangements and
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we would have a visa and
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if nothing happened within a
few days, give him a call back
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and he would call again.
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God got us a visa.
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It's quite a long train ride
from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar.
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As soon as it was light and
we knew we were in Mongolia,
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we had our noses
pressed to the window
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trying to see what our new
home was going to look like.
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It's pretty barren and desolate.
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The people didn't smile
when we would stop at little
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villages along the way.
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And they talked in a language
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we could not understand at all.
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God worked it all out.
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There were no Seventh Day
Adventists here to meet us,
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to show us around, or anything.
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So God arranged for the
professor's son to do that.
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The first place we lived in was
the foreign student dormitory.
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I think it was 4 stories,
and we were on the top floor,
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last room, and because we
were two paying students, we got
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two rooms which were connected
with an entry way that had
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a toilet off the side.
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It was very bleak looking.
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There was a communal kitchen.
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And a communal shower.
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At that time, there was
not only shortages of food,
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but the electricity and
the water was very unstable.
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It was so cold in our apartment
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the window was lined with ice.
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Probably at least an inch thick.
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We were Mongolian language
students at their university.
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And the very first class,
the teacher writes on the board
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the whole alphabet and
tells us the sound of them
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It's all in printing. She erases
the board, and from then on
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she's writing in cursive.
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And see, we're painstakingly
trying to copy these letters
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and we get back to our
room and we're trying to
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figure out now in cursive,
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what letter is this in print?
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And I can look back
at our old notebooks and
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underneath all the cursive is
our painstaking trying to print
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these letters
underneath so we could then
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try to say them.
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Shopping was very
difficult at that time.
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There was
potatoes when they came
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There were little
tiny green tomatoes
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for a little bit,
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cabbage, onions, turnips.
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Everyone had a
ration card at that time and
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there were certain
items that were on there
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alcohol, flour, rice,
and a lot of other items
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that we never saw.
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But you could only go
and get your rations at
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a certain assigned store.
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And if you didn't get there
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when they had your
rations for the month, then
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you just kind of went without.
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But even the rations supply
was not enough to carry a family
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through a whole month.
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We were blessed that
our salary was $40 a month
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and we could go
to the dollar store
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and buy, you know, white flour,
white rice, oil, you know,
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some of the basic staples.
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And we had brought
some beans with us.
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We had a supply of
that... so beans and potatoes.
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Through that whole
time we never went hungry.
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God provided for us every day.
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Living in the foreign student
dormitory, we had a guard
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at the door before you could
go up to any of the rooms and
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Mongolians were not allowed in.
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There was one Mongolian couple
that lived just beyond his
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little desk, and I don't know
all the details as why they were
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there, but because they were
past his desk, they could get to
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know the rest of the foreigners.
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We became friends with
them and they became our tutors
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and they even had a dictionary.
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His name was Biasihen
and her name was Ghierle.
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They were a really neat couple.
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Eventually the guy in
charge of the dormitory decided
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they needed to be kicked
out. Well, we had two rooms
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and we were only
living in one of them.
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So we said, "Well you come
on up and you can tutor us more
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and live in our extra room. "
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And so that's what we did.
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And it was a lot of fun
because they had friends
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and relatives they
could introduce us to.
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He was very curious about the
black book we would read out of.
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So we would we would share a
little bit and Christmas came
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and we put up a few decorations
so when they asked questions,
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we could explain
about Jesus' birth.
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We were unprepared to be able
to share much spiritually and
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really close to the university
was a Mongolian Christian church
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The Christians at this
time were all trying to make it
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a large interdenominational
type thing, all the missionaries
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working together.
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So we went there, we found there
was a New Testament that was
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translated and
we thought, "Great!
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We have another tool to
help us learn the language. "
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And so we're trying to
look at this New Testament and
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our English Bible
and they don't match.
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It was very loosely
translated and in such a way
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as we found as time went on,
we could not teach any of our
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beliefs from this New Testament.
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Meanwhile we were frustrated
living in the student dormitory
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because there was no
way to invite people to
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come to our home.
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So we looked for another
place. There was a Hope Center
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and it was a home where
they took runaway children and
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street children and fed them
and clothed them and also had a
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little school for them.
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We found another kind of
two rooms with the same kind
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of setup as the first place.
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One room for us, one for the
couple that was living with us.
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Then there was this
little tiny room that
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seemed smaller than a love seat.
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That was our little kitchen.
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There was no stove, so we
got a little plug-in burner.
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We would squat and cook there.
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The couple, especially
Biasihen, was sharing with
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his classmates other
college friends about the Lord.
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So soon there was a group
who could teach them how to have
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a relationship with Jesus.
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So they started coming
over and meeting in our room
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till soon, it was very full.
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By May, the group was
desperate to learn more.
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It was soon going to be summer
vacation, they were going to
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be going home and they wanted
to learn all they could so
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they could share with
their family and friends
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out in the countryside.
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So it wasn't just
once or twice a week.
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It was now starting
to be almost every day.
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At this time, we still
didn't have the language skills
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to be able to teach.
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Brad was teaching
Steps to Christ in a very
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easy way and
Biasihen was translating.
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Many of the other
Christians started being jealous
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and wanting to pull him
to be a part of their group.
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So they started telling him that
Seventh Day Adventists weren't
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real Christians and
pointing out different
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problem verses, and we
weren't following the Bible and
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all kinds of problems.
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Well, he hasn't even read the
Bible most likely, and he wasn't
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in a situation where he could
respond or even know how to
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study to find out for himself.
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But being a verbal
person, anything, doubts or
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these questions he would
get from the other Christians,
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he would blab that
right out to the group
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until soon there was
just confusion in the group.
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And at this time we were
also expecting our first child.
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And we were excited about this.
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And we also had our first
visit from Milton and Helen Lee.
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They had been long
time missionaries in China.
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And it was just wonderful to
have some Seventh Day Adventist
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experienced missionaries. I
think we talked their ears off.
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The day they left was Friday
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and we again had
a group in our home.
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And I began to miscarry.
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The group's in our room.
They're sitting all over the bed
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wall to wall, just
filling this room and
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I had no place to go.
So I was in the bathroom.
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Finally, they got the
meeting over and got them out so
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I had a bed.
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On top of the stress with these
other Christians and Biasihen
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and this group and to
lose - to lose our first child
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was just devastating.
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That was June of 1992.
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We were burned out. We
were broken. We were sick.
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Discouraged. We hadn't even
been in Mongolia a whole year.
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We lost that whole first group.
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Eventually God
did send two, I think,
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that had been a part of
that group up to meet us.
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It was about a couple weeks
after I got out of the hospital
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Brad said we
were going on a hike.
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I don't feel up to a hike.
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We take a bus down, I think
it's by the agriculture school
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and there's a steep hill
that goes up and they put some
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Mongolian vining on that hill.
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So we climbed up that and then
we went straight along the ridge
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and we kept walking and walking
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till soon we were in the trees
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and we hadn't realized we
would miss the sound of the wind
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in the trees.
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And we kept walking
around the ridge and it turned
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and there's this big rock
and we sat on that big rock and
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there you can see a
panoramic view of Ulaanbaatar.
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You can see the apartments
that three different places
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we'd lived up to that point.
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Up above us, we could
see the hawks soaring.
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And suddenly we could see
our apartment's only that big
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It was a most healing experience
for us to just step back
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and get the whole perspective.
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You know, our
world is only so big
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compared to the whole universe.
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Yet God is in control of it all.
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He's in control of what's going
on, this big mess that we're in.
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And He's going to work
things out. We just need to
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stay surrendered and
keep walking with him.
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And it was such a wonderful
experience to be up there
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and to realize we're just a
little part of all of God's plan
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When we got back
down, we realized
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several things that
changed our ministry.
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For one, we needed to
not use an interpreter.
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Brad needed to start teaching
when he was able to communicate
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properly in the language.
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Also, the New Testament was not
suitable and we could not use it
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and we needed to start
working on a Bible translation.
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And so it totally changed
our ideal of how the ministry
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and how the mission should be.
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Brad began writing
baptismal studies at that time.
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By that fall, my brother-in-law
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was making a trip to China.
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He brought in with him a
computer for us and a printer
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the whole Old Testament from
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what they had
used in Inner Mongolia.
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So he brought that to us and
we started transliterating it
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from the old vertical
script to the current Cyrillic.
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At this time, I had been asked
to teach Kindergarten at the
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international school.
They were just beginning.
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And so I had agreed until
they could find another teacher.
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One Mongolian student came
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and was trying to talk with me
00:20:34.68\00:20:37.93
and I found out she
was studying French.
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I said, "Oh, you've got to come
meet Joanne! She took French
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and she can help you. "
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And so Ihe decide she would come
and she did come to our home
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on Sabbath.
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And God arranged it so that no
other Mongolian showed up that
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Sabbath. It was just the
beginning of our second group.
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And we had the picture
rolls hanging up on the walls
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in the living room.
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She started looking at those
and we started telling her some
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of the Bible stories.
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Dabahu had been a teacher at
the Hope Center for the runaway
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children and she was a part of
the first group that fell apart.
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Eventually she made her
way back up to where we moved
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and visited us and
we were able to continue
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our friendship with her.
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When we got the Old Testament,
which was all in that old script
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we were able to give it to her
and she would write it in the
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current Cyrillic script.
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So she's probably one Mongolian
who's written about, by hand
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written out
almost the whole Bible.
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We remembered that stack
of books Brad brought home
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from the library.
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Well, in there was a story of
a missionary before the turn of
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the century and he had
spent 30 years in Mongolia
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without a single convert.
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That's the stronghold
the Tibetan Buddhism had
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on the people.
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So that was what we
were expecting when we came.
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And exactly two years to
the date of when we set foot off
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that train was the first baptism
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The next three
years, Satan really attacked
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after that first baptism.
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There were some
really hard times.
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But there were some highlights.
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Our two children were
born. Eventually we also found
00:22:26.61\00:22:32.04
an office to rent, and so
the office was able to move out.
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That also made a change in our
home, which had been the church
00:22:35.63\00:22:39.44
and the office and the
library and everything else.
00:22:39.48\00:22:42.63
Grand Central Station.
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And from that point on,
home was able to be a home
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and a retreat.
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In 1994 when we were home on
furlough, when Rene was born,
00:22:50.85\00:22:55.38
Brad had had medical checkups
because he hadn't felt well.
00:22:55.42\00:22:59.91
Basically, he was
told it was in his head.
00:22:59.95\00:23:02.63
So we head back over. The first
signs of things not quite being
00:23:02.66\00:23:08.07
right was kind of like a flu
bug, a stomach kind of flu that
00:23:08.34\00:23:12.02
he had in May of 1996.
00:23:12.29\00:23:16.14
Probably just before
Christmas, he wasn't able to eat
00:23:18.35\00:23:22.76
anything. We had just seen
the American doctor who said,
00:23:22.99\00:23:27.51
"There's different kinds of
ulcers. I suggest you go back
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to the States and they can
check you out and have some
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recuperation time, for
about 6 weeks or whatever. "
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So he knew he needed to
go back but he wanted to get
00:23:37.33\00:23:41.48
some publishing jobs done that
were just so close to being done
00:23:41.51\00:23:45.36
And so he kept
waiting and waiting
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thinking if he could get well
enough, he could get down to the
00:23:48.40\00:23:51.42
office and finish the job.
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It didn't happen.
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They finally put him on a
plane. I think it was January 17
00:23:54.39\00:23:59.98
and sent him home.
00:24:00.02\00:24:03.68
I saw him off at the airport.
He couldn't handle the two kids
00:24:03.72\00:24:07.29
and I going with him because he
couldn't help take care of the
00:24:07.32\00:24:10.86
kids. So it was just
easier for him to go alone.
00:24:10.99\00:24:13.96
Then when I heard
he was in the hospital
00:24:14.36\00:24:16.45
that was really hard for me.
00:24:16.48\00:24:18.20
Meanwhile, the missionary nurse
00:24:18.23\00:24:21.13
was reasoning with me. She said,
00:24:21.17\00:24:25.19
"Your husband is sick. If they
do surgery, it's going to be
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weeks before he's up and around
and be ready to come back.
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Do you really want to be
separated that amount of time?"
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"No. " So she strongly
encouraged us to head home.
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So when Sabbath was over,
we packed up all our things
00:24:45.32\00:24:50.22
that we didn't want to leave out
for others to use and put them
00:24:50.26\00:24:53.46
behind a door, behind a lock,
00:24:53.50\00:24:55.13
and we got on the
first flight out of there.
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On that flight home, the
doctors walked into Brad's room
00:24:58.10\00:25:03.84
and said, "You have cancer.
00:25:03.87\00:25:05.64
We're doing surgery tomorrow. "
00:25:05.68\00:25:07.50
And I got to arrive just
the night before, and to see him
00:25:07.53\00:25:12.18
before he went into surgery.
And God worked it all out.
00:25:12.22\00:25:16.36
It wasn't too long after we
were back, that he got another
00:25:16.40\00:25:20.88
computer and started
doing the publishing.
00:25:21.02\00:25:23.60
He though, "Well maybe God just
wanted me to do publishing here
00:25:23.63\00:25:26.67
in the States while I don't
have all the distractions of
00:25:26.71\00:25:29.11
things over there,
I can really focus.
00:25:29.15\00:25:31.15
Then when the cancer got too
painful, to where he had to be
00:25:31.19\00:25:34.69
on stronger pain medication
00:25:34.72\00:25:37.11
and it would effect his
thinking, he backed off.
00:25:37.15\00:25:41.19
And he did more training me of
how to do some of the programs.
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Hey, come over here.
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These are for you
girls, from Daddy.
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You know what? You won't be
able to use them for a while,
00:25:54.54\00:25:59.04
but these are
so you can remember
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what I desire for you.
00:26:05.72\00:26:08.38
And what is this gift?
00:26:08.42\00:26:11.05
Bible!
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He was so sweet, all
the way up to his death.
00:26:13.91\00:26:16.57
And so loving.
00:26:18.35\00:26:19.77
Just minutes before he died, he
asked me, "What's the matter?"
00:26:21.40\00:26:24.43
I was upset about something.
00:26:24.46\00:26:26.00
"I love you. "
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He died September 1, 1998.
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In 1998, Adventist
Frontier Missions handed the
00:26:35.26\00:26:39.04
Mongolia Church Planting Project
over to the General Conference
00:26:39.08\00:26:42.30
of Seventh Day Adventists.
00:26:42.34\00:26:44.01
Pastor Dale Tunnell and
his family moved to Mongolia
00:26:44.04\00:26:46.78
to continue the work that
Brad and Cathie had started.
00:26:46.82\00:26:49.53
In 1998, we had one
church in Ulaanbaatar.
00:26:49.57\00:26:55.09
Today we have four
groups meeting in Ulaanbaatar.
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And we have 18 groups meeting
all over the country of Mongolia
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Brad and Cathie really laid
the foundation for us in three
00:27:02.04\00:27:04.73
different areas. First, they
laid a foundation in the area of
00:27:04.77\00:27:07.57
leadership. The people
that they chose to be leaders,
00:27:07.61\00:27:10.55
we are still using today.
00:27:10.58\00:27:12.24
Secondly, they laid a foundation
in the area of publishing.
00:27:12.27\00:27:14.85
Thirdly, we are continuing
to use the home group method
00:27:14.89\00:27:18.41
that they taught us.
00:27:18.45\00:27:19.42
I think we're called to live for
Christ and to die for Christ.
00:27:19.43\00:27:24.83
And as we go back
and study missions,
00:27:24.87\00:27:30.43
a lot of them went out,
and they weren't out very long.
00:27:30.47\00:27:35.16
Their lives were very
short and they gave all they had
00:27:35.20\00:27:38.01
for Christ.
00:27:38.05\00:27:39.17
There's nothing wrong
with that. Praise the Lord.
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That's what we're
here for, to live for Him,
00:27:43.26\00:27:46.30
and if it includes an early
death, the next thing you know
00:27:46.33\00:27:50.19
is going to be Jesus coming.
00:27:50.22\00:27:51.96
Brad and Cathie's
experience here in Mongolia,
00:27:53.54\00:27:56.09
working on the front
lines is a familiar one
00:27:56.13\00:27:58.34
to Adventist Frontier Missions.
00:27:58.38\00:28:00.00
We've been working among
the unreached since 1985.
00:28:00.03\00:28:04.18
Every day our missionaries
are at work where there is
00:28:04.22\00:28:07.32
no Adventist presence.
00:28:07.35\00:28:08.70
Our great desire is to see
God raise up more missionaries
00:28:08.74\00:28:12.40
for the remaining unreached.
00:28:12.43\00:28:14.15