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>>Announcer: It has
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CHRIS: Dear friends, thank you
so much for joining us. We are
in the middle of an incredible
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story: the story of Pastor
Manuel Donoso and how God led
throughout his life. The last
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show, we left you with Pastor
Donoso in the army. Pastor
Donoso, I want to welcome you
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again to It Is Written. PASTOR
DONOSO: Thank you, Chris. CHRIS:
You know, Pastor Donoso,
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we were talking about your
story, talking about the
journey, key pivotal moments in
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your journey. If you've missed
any of the program. of the last
program, you can go to our
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website, itiswrittencanada.ca,
and there you can watch last
week's program. But Pastor
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Donoso, we talked about several
pivotal moments in your life.
When you began, in your
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childhood, you would have long
walks to school, and at that
time, you began talking to God,
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maybe not understanding fully
who God was and what He was and
what He could do, but you began
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these conversations, which was a
key point in your formation.
Then, as you entered upon life,
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there was a tragic situation
with your father, and that
situation led to rebellion in
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your life and led to you
entering into the army, which,
at the time, was not a good
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experience for you. However,
you've said, looking back on it,
it began to emphasize the
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principle of discipline in your
life. Where we left the last
show is, you're in the army,
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you're going through struggles,
things aren't going like you
want it to go. You're wanting to
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get out. How do you eventually
get out? Because obviously,
you're not still in the army.
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PASTOR DONOSO: Well, as I
mentioned, I wrote to the
president, to the elected
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president at the time,
newlylected president, a letter
asking him to intervene
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on my behalf. CHRIS: Okay.
PASTOR DONOSO: Well, about a
month and a half passed by, I
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didn't receive any news, so I
kind of forgot about the idea,
'til one day, one weekend, I was
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out, I was on leave. When I came
back on Sunday night, everybody
knew that I had received a
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letter from the presidency; it
had come to the army base. And
so, as you can imagine, how
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excited I was, but I didn't know
whether it was good news or not.
So I read the letter, and the
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president was telling me that he
has intervened with the ministry
of defence, and that to be
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patient, because something was
being done. Well, the following
day, the very next day, on
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Monday, I was called to the
office of the general of the. in
charge of the regiment. And the
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first thing he asked me was how
come I didn't go forward when
they asked a few months earlier
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whoever wanted to be discharged
earlier? And this was my payback
to the lieutenant, because I
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said to the general that I had
done so, but the lieutenant had
pushed me back. So to make the
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story short, I was discharged
immediately after that. I was
able to leave. And actually, I
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was given a month leave, and I
was spending Christmas and New
Year's out. And even though I
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wasn't discharged, at least I
thought, you know, it was
something good. But when I came
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back after being away for a
month, the very next day after I
arrived, I was told that I was
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discharged for good. CHRIS: So
you're discharged from the army.
Where does your story lead you
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from there? PASTOR DONOSO: Well,
I went home in the country, and
I was wondering what I was going
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to study. I was leaning in a
particular direction, but I
wanted to take some time off.
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And I had been home for a couple
of months when I saw a jeep
coming home toward my home, and
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I knew the jeep; it was my good
friend that we had been in the
army together. And he came to
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invite me to go to Peru. And the
story. the reason was that he
was in love with this girl. She
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was poor and he was wealthy. And
the family, when they found out
that this was getting serious,
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they decided to send them to
Peru to get away, but they
wanted for him to go with a
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friend, and they picked me as
the person that should accompany
him. But unfortunately, the
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story was a little more
complicated, because the girl
was pregnant. CHRIS: Okay. So
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you get out of the army, you had
a friend that was actually a
friend before you went into the
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army? PASTOR DONOSO: Yes. CHRIS:
Continued on as friends in the
army. He left the army
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before you did. PASTOR DONOSO:
Yes. CHRIS: He shows up at your
house in a jeep and
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says, "Let's go to Peru." PASTOR
DONOSO: Yes. CHRIS: So what do
you do? Do you go to Peru? Do
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you have other plans? 'Cause
you're thinking about studying.
What do you do? PASTOR
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DONOSO: Well, I decided to go
with him, because I agreed that
he was doing the right thing. He
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was not abandoning this girl.
But there was another issue as
well. Because the family was
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providing for his trip, there
was a need to. for more money to
finance the girl's. So I was in
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the picture for this as well. So
we did make the trip in that.
you need to read the book to
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know the whole story, because a
movie could be made of just
that, how we got away from Chile
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with this girl, and to Peru.
CHRIS: Now, for some of our
viewers, their geography of
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South America may not be. how
long of a journey is it from
where you lived in Chile to
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where you were going in Peru?
PASTOR DONOSO: We took a bus and
it took us two-and-a-half days
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to arrive in Lima, Peru. And we
had to stay at a hotel one
night. This girl was seven
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months pregnant. CHRIS: Okay.
PASTOR DONOSO: And one of the
things that happened when we
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arrived in Lima, she almost
died. She was wearing a corset
to hide the pregnancy, and she
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did that throughout the trip.
And she almost died in Peru.
CHRIS: Wow. So you end up in
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Peru. Tell me what happens in
Peru. What are some pivotal
moments that happen in Peru?
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PASTOR DONOSO: We had some
jewellery that somebody had sent
to their daughter in Peru that
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she was married to an executive
with the American cable. So
that's the contact that we had.
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And this lady is the one that
really helped her and basically
saved her life because she took
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her to her doctor and saved this
girl's life. But right next door
to this lady, this Peruvian
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lady, lived a man that had a
poultry farm, a large poultry
farm, and he was looking for a
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manager at the time. So I landed
a job only a couple of days
after I arrived in Lima; I got
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this job as managing a large
poultry farm in the north of
Peru. CHRIS: Well, so you have a
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history of being on farms. Your
father was an administrator at a
farm. So you go to Peru, don't
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really have necessarily a plan
of what you're going to do, how
you're going to do it. The young
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lady who was the girlfriend of
your friend is taken care of,
even though she almost dies. And
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now you are managing a poultry
farm. What happens next? PASTOR
DONOSO: Well, what happened next
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is I worked there and tried to
get my working visa. And I was
unsuccessful because the
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contract was not valid. It had
no value to the government. It
was just between us, the owner
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and myself. So I spent a year
managing this farm, and I
decided to go back to Chile.
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These friends had already gone;
shortly after she recuperated,
they returned. The family had
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accepted the girl, and so they
returned. A year later, now I
wanted to return. And the day
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before, I stayed at a hotel, and
the next day I was going to go,
because it was not in Lima, the
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capital; it was 60 kilometres
away to the north of Lima. And
at the hotel the next morning,
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when I was supposed to go to
Lima, I met this man who said,
"Have you gone to the jungle, to
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the Amazon jungle?" And I said,
"No." He said, "You can't come
to Peru and not go to the Amazon
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jungle." CHRIS: Hmm. PASTOR
DONOSO: So he convinced me to go
to Iquitos, the largest city in
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Peru, in the Amazon area. CHRIS:
So you meet this individual as
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you're leaving the hotel, asks
you if you've been to the jungle
in the Amazon, you say no, you
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head to the Amazon. What
happens? PASTOR DONOSO: Yeah.
And instead of flying to Chile,
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I flew to the Amazon. There,
many things happened, but I got
a job with a company that was
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extracting oil from rosewood
right in the middle of the
Amazon jungle. And I was hired
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to go to do an inspection
because it had been idle; the
distillery had been idle for a
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few years. I went. We went in a
plane. They took me there. When
we were flying back, one of the
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doors fell off the plane. It was
an aquatic plane. We almost. the
plane almost went underwater.
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Then they asked me again to.
after all the material was
bought, purchased, to get the
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machine going, I was asked to go
there, accompany the boat with
all the material. And so I
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arrived there and they had a
man, a young man, that was
supposed to run the distillery
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after I went back. And when they
came to pick me up in a plane,
this young man was very ill. So
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they asked me to stay while he
went to get medical attention,
and they would bring him back in
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a plane and then pick me up. But
that never happened. CHRIS:
Okay, you say that never
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happened. So you're in the
middle of the Amazon, you're
working for a company that's
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extracting oil from.? PASTOR
DONOSO: Rosewood. CHRIS: .from
rosewood. And you end up
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actually managing or running the
machinery for this extraction
unit, unexpectedly. And you just
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said they were supposed to
return, but that didn't happen.
What do you mean? I mean, you're
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here, so obviously you were not
stuck in the Amazon forever. But
what happened? What do you mean,
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that didn't happen? PASTOR
DONOSO: Well, the reason it
never happened is because this
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company with three architects
have started a construction
company and they have got a
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contract to build a convent for
the nuns, and they took the down
payment and purchased this
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distillery from somebody else,
and they thought it was going to
be a quick return, but it didn't
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happen that way. So when the
nuns discovered this, they went
to the authorities and the
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people declared bankruptcy, the
company that was employing me,
and they left me there for seven
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months. CHRIS: So you were left
in the Amazon. by yourself? For
seven months. Now, Pastor
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Donoso, I can't even imagine
this, but what happened during
that seven months? PASTOR
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DONOSO: I almost died. It was a
terrible thing. One other thing
that became very apparent to me
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very shortly after is the value
of family. Because here I was,
have no way of contacting my
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family in any way, shape, or
form. It was just like being in
a concentration camp somewhere
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where you have no way of getting
out. There is no, nothing that
you can go to. And fortunately,
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there was a man there that had
run the distillery for the
previous owner, and he had a
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fairly decent home with kerosene
lamp and refrigerators and all
of that, and he housed me during
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that time. But I had an
experience when I was playing
soccer with some of the native
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Indians in the little village,
and I fell and one of them
stepped on my hand, broke the
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skin, and my hand got infected,
and I knew I was going to die.
CHRIS: Wow. So you're being
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cared for by this man, staying
in the home of this man who used
to run the distillery. You've
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got this infection. Pastor
Donoso, how do you survive? How
do you eventually make your way
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out of the Amazon? PASTOR
DONOSO: Well, first of all, the
hand, I knew that. because
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things were getting worse and
worse, I knew that I was going
to die. And I was desperate. And
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then one day I was in my room
when I hear all this commotion,
and I came out of the room, and
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I looked in the bay - it was a
big bay - and I saw this big
ship. And I couldn't believe my
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eyes. It was just like watching
a vision. But it was actually a
Peruvian navy hospital ship that
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they do - I didn't know - but
they go through the rivers
giving medical attention to the
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people that live in those areas
because there is no other way.
And they saved my life. The
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doctor told me that maybe in 24
hours, I would have got blood
poisoning and died. CHRIS: Wow.
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So by a miracle, this Peruvian
naval ship, naval hospital ship,
comes through, helps you, heals
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this infection. So how do you
get out of the Amazon? PASTOR
DONOSO: Well, we have an outdoor
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motorboat with a motor, and
there was a radio station that
transmit messages to the people
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in the jungle, because there's
no other way. And we heard that
this plane was going, Peruvian
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plane, the air force plane, used
to rent certain planes to get
things to the jungle or. and
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there was this plane going to go
and pick up some tropical fish.
Somebody was paying to bring
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that. But it was a long way from
where I was. CHRIS: Okay. PASTOR
DONOSO: So we went, we make.
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there was a man there who had
been hired to make the boats,
the bark, to bring the wood into
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the distillery. And he told me,
"You need to get out of here
before you go crazy." So that's
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how I made my way to the. we had
to travel all night, and it was
extremely dangerous to travel at
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night in those rivers. There's
trees floating down the water,
and it was just amazing. That's
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how I got out. CHRIS: So you
make your way down the river,
you intercept this Peruvian air
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force plane, they fly you out.
What happens next in your life?
PASTOR DONOSO: I met this girl.
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As soon as I came back, I met
this girl, wealthy Peruvian
beautiful girl that had gone
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with a friend to buy the wedding
dress. And I met her the day
before she was going back to
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Lima, because the only way to
come to Iquitos was by plane. So
they had gone, and I met. And we
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really liked each other. But I
was waiting for a cheque from
the company, and they had given
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me one month out of the seven
months that I was away, one
month's payment, but it was a
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ninetyay cheque. I had to wait
ninety days. And I was waiting
there. Well, I met this girl. I
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waited for somebody to cash the
cheque. Finally, somebody did,
for a fraction of the amount,
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and I flew back to Chile. CHRIS:
So you meet this young lady, but
you're able to get the money
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together. You fly back to Chile.
And then once back in Chile,
where does life take you? PASTOR
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DONOSO: Well, once again, I was
going to study. My mother, when
I left Chile, she opened up a
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bank account, and started
putting money just in case I
came back broke. And what I did,
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I did. There's many miracles in
the meantime that happened. But
my mother gave me the equivalent
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of about $3,500 and she said,
"Nobody knows about this. Your
father doesn't know, your
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brother doesn't know. This is
for you." And unfortunately, she
regretted that later, because
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once again, another friend came,
about after a month I'd been
back in Chile, and he said, "You
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need to accompany me to Brazil
because I left a girlfriend
there." CHRIS: So Pastor Donoso,
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you've helped somebody with
their girlfriend in Peru, and
now you have another friend that
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wants you to help them with
their girlfriend that's in
Brazil. And I even hate to ask,
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but what did you do? PASTOR
DONOSO: I went. CHRIS: So you go
to Brazil, and what happens in
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Brazil? PASTOR DONOSO: Well,
what happened in Brazil is, when
we arrived in a city in Brazil,
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we have given the address for my
family to send us
correspondence. We'd been there
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I think about two days. When we
went back to the home where we
were staying, I found a letter
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there addressed to me. And the
letter was from Maria Elena,
this girl that I had met just
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before I left for Chile. And she
had gone with her mother and
grandmother to Chile to look for
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me. CHRIS: Wow. So you mean. and
maybe I missed the story. I want
to make sure I understand it
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correctly. Now, you meet this
woman in Peru. PASTOR DONOSO:
Yes. CHRIS: Who was supposed to
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get married, actually. PASTOR
DONOSO: No, no, her friend.
CHRIS: Oh, her friend, okay.
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PASTOR DONOSO: She accompanied
her friend and went to get a
wedding dress. CHRIS: All right,
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well that's good, Pastor Donoso.
I thought you maybe stole a
bride from somebody. PASTOR
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DONOSO: No, no. CHRIS: Okay. So
this woman that you meet in Peru
that you have a good
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conversation with or two, you
leave her behind in Peru, you go
to Chile. PASTOR DONOSO: Well,
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she went back to Lima. CHRIS:
Oh, she went back to Lima.
PASTOR DONOSO: While I was
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staying there waiting for the
cheque to. for somebody to cash
my cheque. But it just happened
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that somebody cashed my cheque
just after she had gone back to
Lima. So we had no way of
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communicating. So after she
arrived in Lima, she began to
communicate to me where the
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place where I was staying, and
the letters were returned. So
she went back to the place in
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the jungle, Iquitos, to look for
me. And a friend that knew me
said, "No, he went back to
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Chile." But he didn't have my
address. He only said, "Now, he
lives on a farm in Melipilla.
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That is a city. And so the farm
is on the outskirts of the
city." So she began to write to
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me to the farm at the name of
the city. And the letters were
returned. CHRIS: Mmhmm. PASTOR
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DONOSO: So she went to Chile now
to look for me in Chile. CHRIS:
Well, I tell you, Pastor Donoso,
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you must have made some
impression on this young lady.
She comes looking for you. At
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this point, though, you've
helped another friend who's got
a girl problem and gone down to
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Brazil. She ends up in Chile
looking for you, and now you get
this correspondence from her
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that she's come looking for you.
What do you do? PASTOR DONOSO:
The thing is, this letter says -
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you might not believe it, but
when she wrote the letter, it
was about five days earlier -
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she said, "An hour ago I was
talking to your mother and to
your sister. And that's how I
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got the address. And I want you
to come to Peru. My family has a
place for you in the business."
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And so that is how I tried to
make my way now from Brazil to
the Pacific coast, but it didn't
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work. Everything that I did, it
pulled me the other way, and
instead of going south, I came
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north, and that's how I ended up
in Canada. CHRIS: Okay. So
Pastor Donoso, we are running
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short on time again. And so
we're going to have to leave a
good chunk of your story to the
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next show. This young lady comes
to Chile looking for you, sends
you a letter while you're down
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in Brazil. You leave Brazil and
you attempt to go to Peru for
this business opportunity.
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PASTOR DONOSO: Yes. CHRIS: But
you can't get to Peru. PASTOR
DONOSO: Yeah. CHRIS: You make
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every effort to get to Peru. And
somehow, someway, in your
efforts to get to Peru, you
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actually end up in Canada.
PASTOR DONOSO: Yes. CHRIS: Where
do you end up in Canada and what
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are you getting ready to do once
you have landed in Canada?
PASTOR DONOSO: Well, I came to
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study here, actually. I had
decided while I was in Costa
Rica - in Central America, not
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in South America - I decided
that I needed to study. So I
decided to go to New Jersey to
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study poultry in New Jersey. And
there, while in Costa Rica, I
met the Canadian consul and his
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wife, and they convinced me to
go. to come to Canada instead.
CHRIS: Pastor Donoso, what a
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story. From Chile to Peru; from
Peru to Chile; from Chile to
Brazil; from Brazil to Costa
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Rica; Costa Rica to New Jersey.
PASTOR DONOSO: I didn't go to
New Jersey. I was planning to.
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CHRIS: Oh, so you don't even end
up in New Jersey. And then
finally you end up in Canada.
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And we are all out of time.
Pastor Donoso, we're going to
pray. We're going to thank God
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that He is the One Who governs
our affairs and He moves us
along the way. And in the next
00:25:00.40\00:25:06.23
show, we'll talk about how God
intervened in your life in a
mighty way. Let's pray together.
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Heavenly Father, we are so
thankful that even in the
confusion of our lives, you are
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able to guide us and direct us.
And so I pray, Lord, that You
would continue to lead us into a
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relationship with Your Son
Jesus. We pray in Jesus' name,
Amen. PASTOR DONOSO: Amen.
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CHRIS: Do you sometimes wonder
if God cares about your physical
health? I mean, certainly, He is
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very concerned about our
spiritual health, but does he
care about what you eat or if
00:26:10.87\00:26:15.74
you exercise? To answer those
questions, our two women from
our Live Healthy team, Bev
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Edwardsaines, registered
dietician and organic farm owner
from Kelowna, B.C., and Darlene
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Blaney, who holds a PhD in
nutrition, teaches at university
level, and owner of Total Health
00:26:29.95\00:26:37.06
in Eckville, Alberta. BEV:
Chris, you know, spiritual
health and physical health
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actually go hand in hand. One of
my favourite Bible texts tells
us that absolutely, God cares
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about our health. Listen to
this. He tells us in 3rd John
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1:2: BEV: I love that. DARLENE
So first thing's first. What we
need is a fresh, new start. And
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if we use God's plan for healthy
living - and yes, He does have
one - we will be healthier in
00:27:08.86\00:27:13.86
all aspects of our lifestyle,
including the physical, mental,
social, and spiritual. BEV: So,
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over the next several weeks,
we'll share with you the various
components of healthy living
00:27:20.14\00:27:25.47
using the acronym NEWSTART.
That's N E W S T A R T DARLENE
Remember, God wants us
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to enjoy a new and better
quality of life, and He wants us
to do so more abundantly.
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ALL: See you next time.
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CHRIS: Friend, I hope you're
intrigued by this story. You are
surely going to want to get the
00:27:48.66\00:27:52.70
rest of the story. Today, I want
to offer you, for any size
donation, the autobiography of
00:27:52.80\00:27:59.11
Pastor Donoso, A Risk Taker's
Journey. I need to tell you,
this is a book that has made a
00:27:59.21\00:28:05.18
difference in people's lives
across denominations, people who
are not religious. It's making
00:28:05.28\00:28:12.22
an impact. You will not want to
miss out on this book. In
addition to that, I want to
00:28:12.32\00:28:17.09
offer you the book Christ's
Object Lessons. Christ's Object
Lessons will give you those
00:28:17.19\00:28:22.83
principles to live by to be in a
relationship with Jesus. Here's
the information you need to
00:28:22.93\00:28:28.84
receive today's offer.
00:28:28.94\00:28:30.47
CHRIS: Dear friend, thank you so
much for joining us today. And
Pastor Donoso, thank you for
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sharing a portion of your story.
PASTOR DONOSO: Thank you for
inviting me to share the story.
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CHRIS: I invite you to join us
next week as we finish the
amazing story of Pastor Donoso.
00:29:40.18\00:29:46.95
Until then, remember, it is
written: "Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word
00:29:47.05\00:29:53.76
that proceeds
from the mouth of God."
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