>> Welcome to It Is Written
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Canada.
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Thank you for joining us again
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at BC Helicopters in beautiful
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Abbotsford, British Columbia
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where you will be hearing some
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helicopters taking off
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and landing.
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Our special guests are Ruben
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Dias and Misha Gelb who shared
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an epic dream, a passion for
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flying helicopters and they
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united their interest,
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launching the Epic Global
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Heli Tour.
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>> This trip around the world
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in a helicopter would carry
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them over 60,000 kilometres
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with 107 stops, traversing at
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least 45 countries on five
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different continents.
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>> Ruben and Misha, thank you
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for joining us at It Is
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Written Canada, we are looking
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forward to continuing the
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sharing of your story.
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>> Thanks for having us again.
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>> Yes.
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[adventurous music]
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[propeller whirring]
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[adventurous music continues]
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[propeller whirring]
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[voice speaking over intercom]
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>> So people are a key
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to your success.
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Can you tell us about how
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people helped you before and
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during to make this trip
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a success?
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>> I'll say that one person we
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are very grateful was Peter
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Wilson, the person that
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actually did the trip before
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us that was the first to touch
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two opposites of the world, as
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Misha said, and we learned a
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lot from him.
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He gave us everything that he
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had at that time, he already
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finished that trip.
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So that was one good example
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of people that helped us on
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the planning; technical
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expertise, have done it
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before, experience.
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Throughout the whole trip we
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also had a small team that
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supported us that was awake
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all the time because we were
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flying at different time
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zones, we had the people,
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especially in Europe, that
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were supporting us on the
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marketing communication side,
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but also logistics and also
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our ops team, the operation
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team in Dubai.
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So those people were key and
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we have a big list of people
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to thank for-- we're very
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thankful, but they were on the
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back scene, or two guys going
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in the helicopter with one of
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my kids, one on one, a
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daughter and a son, now and
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then, but it was just this
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small thing going around the
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world, but we had very good
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human support of our team and
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also people that we met and
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then we made friends.
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[MISHA] Yeah, exactly.
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An interesting one, you know,
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again, I think what's
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interesting about this trip in
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general and one of the big
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things we've learned from it
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is you never know when you
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start a project how it's gonna
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end and how it's gonna open up
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doors for the future.
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You don't know how one thing
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that you do today is gonna
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have a ripple effect in the
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rest of your life.
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And, you know, a quick
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instance of that: I met a
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gentleman and his son at a
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helicopter convention a year
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prior to this world trip and,
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you know, very excited to meet
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us and learn about the trip
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and so forth.
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And so it was one of those
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things, we met a lot of people
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that day, but we could have
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just brushed it off and said,
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"Yeah, that's great, thanks"
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"so much," and then left it
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with that.
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But, you know, there was some
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prompting that said, "You"
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"know what, we should engage"
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"with these people," and so we
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did prior to the trip and, you
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know, through that, he was
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instrumental in so many other
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parts of that trip and he was
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able to arrange things for us
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in many other different
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sections of that part of the
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world and...
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So, yeah, you meet these
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people and you don't know how
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they're gonna effect and how
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that's gonna open up doors in
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the future and we've become
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very good friends since then,
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we keep in contact regularly
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with them and the whole family
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and...
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>> That's a very excellent
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example because you have a
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bell boy, simple person, and a
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very, very successful
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individual, two opposites of
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the society, but both were
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instrumental and extremely
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important in our trip.
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So you can see that we have to
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treat and have a relationship
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with every single human being
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the same way and having that
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engagement that is key that
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you never know how is that
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gonna be very supportive for
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your success of your project.
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>> I'm sure there are many
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more, but I think we need to
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encourage our viewers to read
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your book.
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>> It is something that is
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exciting for all of us because
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Mike wrote it for us and he
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was able to bring that story
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to life for everybody and it
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was an opportunity for us to
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go back through and kind of
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almost debrief the story and
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go into details, yeah,
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moments, yeah.
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>> Moments, yeah, I call them
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"divine appointments."
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I think we had several divine
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appointments during this trip
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and they were very meaningful
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for us and I think that we had
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an impact on people where we
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were used by God.
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>> I remember an occasion
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still in El Salvador that we
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were about to leave this
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family that was actually
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flying with us, went in the
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helicopter and supported us so
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much throughout the trip and
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when we were actually at the
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last stop and from that point
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on we were going to continue
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to Costa Rica, he would be
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flying to the border and then
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leave us.
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I felt impressed that moment
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that we should pray for them
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and we did a little round
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group there around the
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helicopter and I felt
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impressed to pray for them,
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also for us, but especially
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for them and that impacted
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them very much because then
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they told us later they will
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never forget that.
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And it was not any merit that
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we had, but we were used--
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the Holy Spirit just told us
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there that we had to pray for
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that family.
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But God gives us moments that
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we can use and we can be a
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channel to share our belief
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and our faith that we have
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in Jesus.
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[MISHA] Mm-hmm, yeah, it was
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kind of neat because we did
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short presentations, 45
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minutes or so at different
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universities throughout the
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trip, sharing our experiences
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of the world tour, our
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entrepreneurial lifestyle and
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healthy lifestyle and so forth
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and we'd always throw in our
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belief in God and how that's
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such a large impact for what
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we do and how we live our
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lives and it was, yeah, it
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was neat.
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And a couple occasions in
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Quebec at Laval University and
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a couple others where people
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would come back-- come to us
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afterwards and say, "Wow,"
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"that really impacted me,"
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"I'm a Christian as well and,"
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"you know, just hearing you"
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"guys, what you're doing and"
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"that you guys live this kind"
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"of lifestyle," it was really
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affirming for me.
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So that was kind of neat.
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And, you know, just thinking
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back to, you know, talking
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about close encounters and
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close calls, you know, there
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was moments where we almost
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didn't make it on the trip,
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you know, we almost were
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written about and not the way
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you want to be written about
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and we have firm belief that
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it was only through God and
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the angels keeping that
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helicopter in the air that we
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actually made it through
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that trip.
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So, you know, talking about
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divine encounters with forces
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beyond our control, weather
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and things like that.
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Yeah, definitely impactful.
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[RUBEN] I think that when you
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are faithful and loyal that
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God always just gives back and
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comfort and gives you
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opportunities to actually
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share your experience with
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others, that's the key part.
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Because you're blessed
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and you have to bless others
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with being a channel of
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that blessing.
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[MIKE] So you took Sabbaths
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off during the trip.
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People are watching this
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online, so you have a
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community online that's
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watching you and you made
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that decision.
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For you, was it a time when
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you felt like you connected
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with God and you had that time
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of rest and it was important
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to you?
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>> It was critical because if
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we were just going on
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basically forever, 97 days,
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we'll just burn out.
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It was, for us, it was-- and I
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think everybody did this and
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somehow when you do a project
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like this, you gotta stop
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some time.
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Our big difference is-- was we
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were in line with the plan of
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our Creator which was six days
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doing your labour and then the
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seventh day resting, having a
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special relationship with Him.
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And we have that as a habit.
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So six days, seventh day, six
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days, seventh day.
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Sometimes you have, you know,
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"I need to rest now."
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We didn't have any rest other
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than weather.
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If the weather didn't allow,
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we couldn't fly, but if it
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will allow, if it was any day
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of the week of those six days,
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we will fly and-- but the
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seventh, independently of what
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was happening, we will stop
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that day.
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So that day was critical on
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forming a habit, also on
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having a balanced, a balanced
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experience on this journey
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that lasted for three months.
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>> I remember a Sabbath that
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we spent in Greenland and, you
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know, you just, you go out
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there, you sit on one of those
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chairs that's overlooking the
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bay full of icebergs and it's
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peaceful and quiet, but the
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only sounds that you're
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hearing is, you know, the
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icebergs crashing against each
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other and it's just pristine
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and beautiful, you know.
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And you just sit there and
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think about, "Wow, God"
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"created all this," you know,
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and it allows you that time to
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slow down and even,
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going back to the beautiful
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beaches, you know, there was
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times where you just sit in
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the sun on the beach and just
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relax for a little bit and you
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just have that time to reflect
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and think about, "Wow,"
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you know, "the opportunity"
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"that we have and the things"
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"that we get to see and the"
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"cultures and the people, this"
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"is all created things," you
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know, "created for our"
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"enjoyment and our pleasure."
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And, yeah, it-- really
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incredible to have that time
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to stop and pause and refocus
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because it was such a rush
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trip that we didn't get to
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experience the things that we
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wanted to, I think.
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>> This was a big build up.
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You had dreamed about this,
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you planned it and this is a--
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you finally had all these
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ideas of what you wanted to
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achieve, do you feel like you
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achieved what you wanted to
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achieve from this trip?
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>> Personally, I think that
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for me I overachieved.
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There was a moment in the trip
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that we thought that
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everything was over 'cause
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when we were stopped by the
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lack of permit in Pakistan and
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Dubai, that we had to wait for
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three weeks, we thought at the
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last, last moment that
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everything was going to be
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cancelled and we had to go back
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around a certain route,
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go back and just ruin the
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whole trip.
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So it's-- you cherish the
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victories when that victory
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becomes extremely hard.
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If it was easy, then it would
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be, "OK, we did around the"
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"world," and kind of, we
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didn't feel that right?
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"It's not that difficult,"
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"going around the world is OK,"
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you know, but that was not the
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case, going around the world
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in a helicopter and doing what
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we did was 60,000 kilometres,
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that's 60,165 kilometres, it
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was extremely hard.
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And the fact that it was hard,
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it just, it gives value to the
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achievement that you
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personally want to have in
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your life.
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It went beyond my expectation,
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not only on the experience of
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itself, but also the impact
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that it had on my life on
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gaining experience from other
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things and going out of my
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comfort zone than to do other
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things because you looked back
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and said, "Yes, you achieved"
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"this, it was hard, now you"
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"can do other things that"
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"is harder."
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So that's an inspiration of
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growing as a person.
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[MISHA] Yeah, and, you know, I
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think when I went into it I
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was naive of what we were
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getting into.
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You know, you imagine things
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in your mind a certain way,
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you know, the sky's always
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gonna be blue because, you
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know, it's the summertime and
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of course it's gonna be sunny
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in Guatemala or wherever
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you're gonna be, right.
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And so you go into it, I
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think, naive and I think
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what's interesting, just, you
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know, just looking at the
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spiritual application of what
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you just said there, you know,
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how hard the trip was, I think
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a lot of times people blame
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God and they say, you know,
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"God is putting all these"
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"roadblocks or difficult"
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"things in your life," and,
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you know, "Why is God making"
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"this happen to me," and "Why"
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"are all these bad things"
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"happening to me?"
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And I think we have to reframe
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that, because on this trip,
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you know, we think about
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weather as one example, we
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started heading south from
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British Columbia down to South
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America and we picked up the
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bad weather in Cuba and we
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basically battled the bad
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weather through the entire
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world trip and it spit us out
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on the other end in Alaska.
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And on that last day when we
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were coming home, we had blue
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skies and we had beautiful
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weather.
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But basically the entire trip
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in the middle there, for
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probably 80 of those 97 days
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was just battling bad weather.
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You know, when Ruben talked
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about having to go back, when
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we were already in Dubai and
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having to go back through
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Saudi Arabia and back through
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Egypt and go a different
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route, you know, the moment
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that we were in, we talked
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about this at the very end,
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you know, if we knew all the
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challenges that we were gonna
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face on that trip, would we
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have done it?
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And in the moment when we
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could freshly think about all
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those challenges, the answer
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was just unequivocally no.
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If you know every challenge
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that you're gonna encounter
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over the next five years or
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something, it would be too
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much to handle, we wouldn't be
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able to handle it, and we
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wouldn't know how to go
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forward because it's just too
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much, right, but, you know, I
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think God leads us and He
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helps us through those steps
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and He helps us through those
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battles and like Ruben said,
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you know, did we accomplish
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what we wanted to?
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I think it was just incredibly
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more than we ever wanted to
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accomplish because when you go
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through those challenges, when
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you go through those hard
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times and you experience those
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things and those memories and
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so forth, when you get to the
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end and you get to that finish
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line and you look back at it,
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that achievement is so much
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more worthwhile, you know.
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If we had just hopped in the
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helicopter and flew and
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beautiful weather and
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everything went great, it was
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no problem, we just zipped
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around and got back, it would
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have been a fun trip, but the
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value to that trip wouldn't
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have been there, right.
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And so, for us, we value this
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as a lifelong experience that
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we'll never forget because of
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those challenges that we had.
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And so I think if we can
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reframe the way we think about
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our lives in general and we
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can say, "No, God's not"
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"causing this to happen to"
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"us, this is just a natural"
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"effect of the circumstances"
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"that the world throws at us,"
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but we can use those as an
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opportunity to grow and become
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stronger and say, "You know"
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"what, this is a way that I"
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"can become a better person"
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"and through becoming a"
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"better person, I'll feel"
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"more accomplished in life"
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"and I'll feel more"
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"achievement in life."
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And when we get to the end,
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when we get to that finish
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line, we're gonna look back at
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that experience and we're
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gonna go, "That was so"
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"worthwhile," you know.
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>> So, Misha and Ruben, you
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mentioned about the
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difficulties that you had and
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the trials that you
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experienced, is there a Bible
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verse that really spoke to you
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on this trip?
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>> There's a-- it was an event
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that happened in Greenland
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that was very challenging for
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us because we arrive in
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Greenland in Ilulissat and we
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were planning to cross
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Greenland through the icecap,
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which is the quickest, pretty
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long, more than 400 miles, but
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over literally all ice.
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That was our plan, the weather
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planning was that, but then
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when we arrived we quickly
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found out because of extreme
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weather what Mishu just
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described, we found literally
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all over the world, including
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Greenland that that was not
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gonna be possible, we were
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basically gonna be stuck in
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Greenland for a long time,
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waiting for that crossing.
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We did have a second plan, but
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the detail second plan, there
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was a small detail there which
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was the fuel required on a
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certain leg because we were
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three of us, we needed
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basically to haul fuel to a
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certain place, a tip of
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Greenland, leave fuel there
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and come back and continue
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the trip.
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Actually refuel there and
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refuel again and continue
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the trip.
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But we didn't have that plan
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and I remember when we were
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there looking at the weather
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situation the next few days
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and I thought, "We're gonna be"
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"stuck here forever, we're"
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"not gonna leave this place"
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"any time soon."
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So I was-- it was very late at
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night, but no night in
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Greenland that time of the
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year, it's always light so I
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was laying in my bed and I was
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trying to figure out how we're
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gonna solve this thing.
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And I was quite frustrated and
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disappointed and a little bit,
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I'll confess, a little bit
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depressed by the situation
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and I thought, "OK,"
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"we're gonna be in a risky"
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"situation, there's gonna be"
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"a lot--" there was a lot of
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turbulence in a certain place
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there we had to pass through,
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and this verse came to my mind
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that was the very well-known
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chapter 23 of Psalms.
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And that part of the Psalms
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that says that, "Even if I"
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"walk in the shadow of the"
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"valley of death, I will fear"
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"no evil..."
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That detail of yes, I'm here
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in this shadow of death that
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I-- we just had gone through
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some severe weather in Canada
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as well, and it was not
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looking bright for us at that
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point, but I felt that-- that
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verse came to my mind, I was
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meditating, praying to God to
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find a solution, but that
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verse came to my mind and it
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gave me so much comfort.
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Yes, absolutely, I should not
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fear no evil.
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And after that, that's
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interesting about what happens
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with prayer, because after
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that, then your mind is more
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open for solutions.
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That's the effect that prayer
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has with you because you have
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the confidence that God is
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with you, He inspires
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solutions to your mind.
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And I thought of, "OK, let me"
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"call a certain friend that"
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"I--," we met, just met when
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we landed with the power of
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nice in the airport of
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Ilulissat who was running a
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small airline there in
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Greenland, I say, "I'm gonna"
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"call operations and find a"
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"way if I can get some Jerry"
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"cans to them to actually"
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"put these Jerry cans in that"
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"certain place then we can"
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"continue this trip on this"
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"second plan B that we wanted"
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"to go around Greenland."
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And then we never thought
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about the solution, but that
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moment of prayer gave me the
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clearness of mind, then I pick
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up the phone at 11-something,
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they were working all night, I
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call them, ask, and they said,
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"Yeah, I think we can"
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"arrange that."
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So that was a solution that
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was very practical, simple,
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but it only came when I had
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peace in my mind and the peace
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of my mind was achieved by
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repeating that verse that we
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can only get through the Holy
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Scriptures.
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That was an amazing experience
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that I had personally.
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[MISHA] Yeah, a big one for me
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was right at the end of the
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trip, you know, we've already
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talked here about the trials
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that we had and, you know,
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we'd been away from our
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families for a very long time,
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we were longing to get
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back home.
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We went through an experience
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on the second to last day
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before we got home in Alaska.
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We had flown through the
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mountains, we hit severe
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turbulence to the point where
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we thought that the helicopter
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was gonna come apart, we
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weren't gonna make it and it
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was a terrifying experience,
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I'm not gonna go through all
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the details, you guys can read
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it in the book if you want to,
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but, you know, it was an
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experience where we knew with
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100% confidence that God and
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His angels were holding that
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helicopter together because
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without that, it would have
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been the end of us.
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Anyways, we flew through that
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traumatic experience and that
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was actually on a Friday and
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so we were gonna stop that
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night and then we were gonna
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take Sabbath off and fly home
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on the last day,
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on the Sunday.
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And I remember, you know, we
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got in just as the sun was
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going down, got everything
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settled and so forth and we
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went out for a walk and
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debriefed and it was a very
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traumatic experience.
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And, you know, coupling that
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emotion with all the previous
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things that we had gone
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through on the trip, you know,
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we started to reflect on all
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those major moments, those
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milestone moments of good and
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bad and terrifying experiences
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and where God had led us and
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how He had kept us safe.
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And we debriefed and we went
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to bed that night, woke up the
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next morning, it was Sabbath
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morning and sure enough, there
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was a text from our friend,
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Michael, and it was a long text
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and I started reading it, I
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didn't wait to go to Ruben,
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you know, I was reading it in
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my bed, and it talks about,
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you know, 'cause we hadn't met
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him at this point, we'd only
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been communications through
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phone calls and through the
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internet, and, you know,
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emails, and different text
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messages and stuff like that,
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and so I'd never met this
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gentleman, but he had been
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faithfully praying for us on
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this whole trip and, you know,
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I think he really, he made a
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major impact on us and the
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message, basically to
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summarize was, you know, "I"
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"know we haven't met yet,"
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"but we have this assurance"
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"in the Bible..."
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There's this verse in the
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Bible that basically says
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that, you know, in the end,
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when we get to heaven, we're
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gonna be able to meet under
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the Tree of Life.
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And the Tree of Life, you
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know, the leaves of the Tree
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of Life are meant for the
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healing of the nations, you
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know, and the healing of the
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nations is those wounds that
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we've struggled through all
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our lives, you know, lost
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family members and friends and
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the different struggles that
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we've had and so forth.
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And he says, you know,
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"I can't wait-- if we don't"
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"get the chance to meet on"
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"this earth, I can't wait to"
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"meet you under the Tree of"
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"Life, we'll have a reunion"
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"there and we'll have"
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"this meeting."
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And that verse, I started
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crying in that moment because
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that verse, you know, we were
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one day away from being home
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and seeing our families and
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that impact of that feeling of
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what it's gonna feel like to
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get home the next day and to
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see my family and to be having
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that experience of that
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reunion and then thinking
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about he ultimate reunion, you
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know, we get to heaven, we get
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under the Tree of Life, the
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people that we're gonna get to
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see, the people that,
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you know, that we've met
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throughout our lives and had
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an impact on and they had an
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impact on us and to be able to
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have that reunion is gonna be
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an experience that's gonna be,
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I think, unmatched, it's gonna
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be so special, you know.
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And so that verse, ever since
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that moment it was-- you know,
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I'd read it so many times in
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my life, but it became so real
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for me in that moment and it
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was incredible.
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When I shared that with Ruben
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it was just like, wow, so
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impactful so, you know, I'll
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never forget that.
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>> It was a pinnacle moment, a
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spiritual moment of the trip.
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Yes.
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>> Any final thoughts?
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You've covered a lot and
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there's so much that we can
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cover and there's so much more
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in the book.
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Any final thoughts that you
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have to share?
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>> Personally, I would say
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that if I knew what I was
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going to encounter, I would
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not have the strength to do
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it, but because I didn't know
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it, I did it and I'm so happy
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I did it.
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The challenges made me, I
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believe, a stronger individual
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in many senses and it was an
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experience of getting closer
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to God in a very practical and
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very tangible way that we were
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saved so many times and we were
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guided as the examples that we
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gave here and so many others
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that you can read in the book.
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We wanted to leave a spiritual
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legacy through this book that
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Mike wrote for us that we
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appreciate so much because we
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chose Mike because of
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different reasons, but one of
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them is that he has had a
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tremendous story teller, but
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with a spiritual tone that we
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wanted in a book.
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So that's the purpose of our
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mission of what we did that we
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leave this experience to
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impact spiritually others.
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So that's my final thought in
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my achievement, ultimate
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achievement of the trip.
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>> Yeah, I feel the same way.
00:24:06.07\00:24:07.48
You know, the impact that the
00:24:07.48\00:24:09.34
trip has had on us, I hope in
00:24:09.34\00:24:12.21
turn it has the ability to
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have an impact on other people
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and I hope, you know, as
00:24:15.75\00:24:17.02
people read through the
00:24:17.02\00:24:18.49
stories that you were able to
00:24:18.49\00:24:19.85
articulate in such an
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incredible way, I hope they
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have the ability to see in a
00:24:23.16\00:24:25.53
very tangible way because I
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think it was the first time
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for me as a Christian where
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Christianity became incredibly
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tangible, you know.
00:24:31.73\00:24:33.27
I had grown up a Christian
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and, you know, I'd been
00:24:35.17\00:24:36.71
reading my Bible and praying
00:24:36.71\00:24:38.21
and things like that, but this
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was the first time where I
00:24:39.41\00:24:40.88
really encountered incredibly
00:24:40.88\00:24:42.38
difficult things and saw God's
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hand guiding us and helping us
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and strengthening us in the
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times that we needed it.
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And so I think, you know,
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my hope is that as people read
00:24:51.95\00:24:53.62
through these stories and they
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understand the depth of the
00:24:55.19\00:24:56.66
experiences that we went
00:24:56.66\00:24:58.16
through, that they have the
00:24:58.16\00:24:59.59
ability to realize, you know,
00:24:59.59\00:25:01.86
the Creator that we serve and
00:25:01.86\00:25:03.80
how great He is and how much
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He loves each one of us, you
00:25:05.40\00:25:06.50
know, I think that's the
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biggest thing, yep.
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[MIKE] That's amazing that you
00:25:08.77\00:25:09.87
said that, that you
00:25:09.87\00:25:11.61
encountered God through this
00:25:11.61\00:25:13.74
trip and a lot of times people
00:25:13.74\00:25:15.61
think, "Well, the only way I"
00:25:15.61\00:25:17.11
"can encounter God is going"
00:25:17.11\00:25:18.55
"to church," or, you know, and
00:25:18.55\00:25:19.98
you do and you can encounter
00:25:19.98\00:25:21.38
God through going to church
00:25:21.38\00:25:22.75
and reading your Bible and
00:25:22.75\00:25:24.02
praying, but really just going
00:25:24.02\00:25:25.32
on a helicopter trip and God
00:25:25.32\00:25:28.89
was very real to you there.
00:25:28.89\00:25:30.79
So the Lord shows up where we
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are at and speaks to us
00:25:32.93\00:25:35.50
through those experiences.
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[RENÉ] Well, we've come to the
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end of our program.
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Ruben, I wonder if I could ask
00:25:42.24\00:25:43.94
you to please pray for us.
00:25:43.94\00:25:45.17
>> Sure, mm-hmm.
00:25:45.17\00:25:47.28
Dear Heavenly Father, thank
00:25:47.28\00:25:48.74
You for this moment that we
00:25:48.74\00:25:49.98
have together to reason
00:25:49.98\00:25:51.58
together and to think about
00:25:51.58\00:25:53.25
this experience that Misha and
00:25:53.25\00:25:55.28
I had together and that it was
00:25:55.28\00:25:57.85
such an impact in our lives.
00:25:57.85\00:26:00.46
And we praise You for being
00:26:00.46\00:26:02.92
our Creator and our Protector
00:26:02.92\00:26:05.26
and that we can just accept
00:26:05.26\00:26:07.03
You and live eternally with You.
00:26:07.03\00:26:08.63
We ask especially for the
00:26:08.63\00:26:09.93
blessing of this ministry, for
00:26:09.93\00:26:12.33
Mike and René, that they
00:26:12.33\00:26:14.50
impact also others as they're
00:26:14.50\00:26:16.34
doing, that they get this story
00:26:16.34\00:26:18.94
and others so others would
00:26:18.94\00:26:21.01
also embrace this decision of
00:26:21.01\00:26:24.25
serving You as the Creator and
00:26:24.25\00:26:26.45
that this ministry will be
00:26:26.45\00:26:28.22
highly blessed.
00:26:28.22\00:26:29.65
We ask this in Jesus' name,
00:26:29.65\00:26:31.02
amen.
00:26:31.02\00:26:31.72
[ALL] Amen.
00:26:31.72\00:26:32.95
>> Thank you so much, Ruben
00:26:32.95\00:26:34.49
and Misha, for sharing your
00:26:34.49\00:26:36.49
story about your trip around
00:26:36.49\00:26:38.16
the world in the helicopter,
00:26:38.16\00:26:39.59
your epic dream experience,
00:26:39.59\00:26:40.53
thank you so much.
00:26:40.53\00:26:41.70
>> Yeah, thank you both as
00:26:41.70\00:26:42.73
well, yep.
00:26:42.73\00:26:43.77
>> Friends, if you were
00:26:45.80\00:26:47.70
inspired by Ruben and Misha's
00:26:47.70\00:26:49.67
adventure, then you will want
00:26:49.67\00:26:51.64
to get our free offer today.
00:26:51.64\00:26:54.18
>> The information for how to
00:26:54.18\00:26:55.81
get our free offer is on the
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screen right now.
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The book is entitled, The Epic
00:26:59.18\00:27:01.85
Dream: A Round-the World
00:27:01.85\00:27:04.02
Helicopter Adventure of Risk,
00:27:04.02\00:27:06.25
Reward, and the Power of Nice.
00:27:06.25\00:27:09.66
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short spiritual messages
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entitled, Daily Living, and
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our exercise workouts called,
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Experiencing Life.
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>> We also invite you to join
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us every Friday evening live
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on YouTube and Facebook at
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7:30 Eastern Standard Time for
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a few minutes, opening our
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Bibles together because we
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want you to experience the
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truth that is found in the
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words of Jesus when He said,
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"It is written,"
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"man shall not live by bread"
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"alone, but by every word"
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"that proceeds out of the"
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"mouth of God.
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>> And I can't believe it.
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It's actually happening, after
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so many months of planning
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it's actually here.
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Let's go, I'm ready to go!
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