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>> Welcome to It Is Written
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Canada.
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Thank you for joining us.
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Imagine the dreams of a father
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being passed down to his son.
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The father's dreams of helping
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desperately sick people to find
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holistic healing, health,
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and wellness.
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That is the story of Phil
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Brewer, the co-founder and
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director of Silver Hills
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Guesthouse and Spa, a living
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lifestyle center in the
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beautiful Maple Lake Valley
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near Lumby, British Columbia.
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>> Phil's father struggled to
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stop smoking, and when he
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finally kicked the habit and
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started to experience freedom
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from smoking, he continued to
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advance in his journey towards
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total health, improved
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nutrition, sleep, and inner
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peace, and a sense of self
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control, relational wellness and
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spiritual wholeness.
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Phil's father had a dream to get
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people out into nature because
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he believed that nature is God's
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physician.
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His belief was that if people
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could just escape the constant
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pathological busyness, the rat
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race and stress that imprisons
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most men and women, they would
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then naturally find the
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fortitude to flourish.
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>> Today, on It Is Written
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Canada, Phil Brewer shares the
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story of his father's influence
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on his life.
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Phil's own personal journey to
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discover holistic health and
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wellness, as well as how he was
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able to get Silver Hills, this
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living lifestyle centre, up and
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running and was able to help
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countless souls experience
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holistic healing, health, and
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wellness for the last 40 years.
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[water spraying]
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[PHIL] For me, Silver Hills
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started when I was five
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years old.
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My father was an advocate of
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health and he started a
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vegetarian restaurant.
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So that's 1955.
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And you can imagine 1955,
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vegetarian, the word, nobody
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even knew what he was
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talking about.
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It lasted two years
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and then went out of business.
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But my dad was not out of the
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But my dad was not out of the
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health business.
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He loved to teach health.
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And so he taught five-day stop
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smoking plans.
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And so as I was growing up, it
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was five-day stop smoking plans
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every month.
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And I used to help run the film
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And I used to help run the film
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and, you know, projector and
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work with the guests and
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work with the guests and
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visitors.
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He had a very hard time stopping
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smoking, very difficult time.
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And so he'd like to help them.
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But he- there were some people
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that were like him, they would
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struggle, like how do you stop
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smoking?
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And he thought, "If only we had
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And he thought, "If only we had
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a place in the country where,
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you know, like, how could we
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have a place in the country
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where we could take the ones
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that were really struggling,
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get them away from all cigarette
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smoking out in the country,
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in nature, and then they would
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have a chance of stopping."
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And so I was raised with this
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idea, you know what we should
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do, we should have a centre
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in the country.
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い
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I'm Phil Brewer,
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co-founder of Silver Hills
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Guesthouse, a live-in lifestyle
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centre.
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centre.
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Next year will be 40 years that
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we've been operating it.
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い
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So my wife and I came to this
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valley in 1973, and it was a
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missionary training program.
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And so we were part of that
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until 1984.
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until 1984.
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And in 19- actually, 1974, I
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went down to a place in Alabama
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where they had a lifestyle
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centre to take some training so
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I could help in the missionary
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training program.
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And it was Uchee Pines
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Institute.
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And down there, I mean, doctors,
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two doctors were running it,
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Dr. Agatha and Calvin Thrash.
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To learn from them was fantastic
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and they were also into
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natural health.
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They would give their patients
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medication.
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They'd say, "Here, take this
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medication for your heart
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disease, take this medication
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for your diabetes."
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But they would also give them a
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lifestyle prescription.
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And it's like, do exercise,
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you know, drink water, get to
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bed on time, they would do
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that thing.
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And so, you know, they were
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doing that and they would, the
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patient would come back,
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you know, after a month for
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a follow up, "How did you make
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out with the exercise?"
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"Well, you know, we had visitors
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all month last month.
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You know, I couldn't get out of
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the house.
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I was washing clothes, you know,
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feeding visitors and things like
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that so I just couldn't
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get out."
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"So how did you make out with
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the medication?"
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"Well, my back is itchy, you
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know, I'm having problems with
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my back, and..."
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And they'd say, "Well, we'll
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change that medication for you."
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The next month they come back
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for another re-evaluation.
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"How did you make out with the
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exercise?"
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"Well, you wouldn't believe it,
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Doctor, it rained every day."
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So what they were doing is they
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So what they were doing is they
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were taking the medication, but
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they weren't changing their
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lifestyle.
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It was kind of like my dad.
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He was into lifestyle education,
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they were into lifestyle
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education.
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I really wanted to have a place
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where we could do lifestyle
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education.
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So when I came back, and by
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1984, the missionary training
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program, the missionaries had
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gone out and the property was
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still here and the board said to
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still here and the board said to
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me, "What do you wanna do
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with this place?"
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And I said, "I'd like to run a
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lifestyle centre."
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And so they said, "Go ahead."
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Well, to run a lifestyle centre,
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you have to have money.
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The neighbour invited me to
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build him a woodshed
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and garage combination.
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And so I built him that, and he
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really liked it.
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And so he said, "Well, will you
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build me a hobby barn?"
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And so the hobby barn had a
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hip roof on it, and it was
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painted red and white trim and a
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place for hay upstairs and two
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horses on the...
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He loved it.
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And his son came out.
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He saw what we had built and he
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said, "Will you build me a house
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on the property next door?
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And so he gave us the plans to
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look at, and we went over the
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plans and we worked out all the
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details, you know, the cabinets,
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the plumbing, everything,
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everything it needed.
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And we gave him a price, showed
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it to him, he liked the price
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and signed the plans, we signed
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the plans.
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That was 1983.
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1984, we went to start it,
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but then we had inflation
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at 33%...33.5%.
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Everything we had quoted him;
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windows, doors, drywall,
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cabinets, every piece of
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material, labour, everything had
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gone up 33%.
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And we had contracted,
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we said we would build it for a
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certain price and so we're gonna
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build it for that price, right?
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And so we went ahead with the
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price that we had given him,
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which meant we were gonna
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build it for free.
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Basically.
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But you know, we- your word is
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your word and we decided to go
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ahead with it.
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The problem was that the man
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himself was a difficult man
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to work for.
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He was very hard to please,
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very, very difficult.
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Every person that I hired, he
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would basically chase them off.
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And, it was- it became a very
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difficult thing and I worked for
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him for a year and a half.
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So, you know, after building
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that house a year and a half,
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the, not just the loss of money,
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the stress, there was a lot of
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stress involved and my
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health broke.
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I mean, I was really
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a broken man.
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I wasn't sleeping.
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I didn't care to eat.
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I was, you know, I was having a
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terrible time with my memory.
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I mean, I was hard to live with.
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I told my wife, I said, you
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know, I felt so sorry for her,
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I said, "You know, if you wanted
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to leave me, I would understand.
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I mean, I'm suicidal, I can't
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function, I can't..."
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Everything was wrong.
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I was just not working right.
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I was just not working right.
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I would pray.
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I mean, I loved to pray, I loved
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to read, I liked to have
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devotions in the morning.
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I couldn't read, I couldn't- my
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memory was so bad I couldn't
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retain the thought from one
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paragraph the next.
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paragraph the next.
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I literally couldn't read.
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I mean, I couldn't believe it.
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I mean, I would sit there and I
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would try and read and it was
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just confusion, it was a jumble
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for me.
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So my memory wasn't
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working right.
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And I used to pray, pray for my
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family, I prayed for my wife,
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and prayed for my kids.
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And, "Did I pray for my wife?
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I prayed for my wife and I
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prayed for my kids."
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And then, "Did I pray for
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my wife?"
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And then I prayed for my wife.
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And then I said, "You know, I've
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gotta do something about this."
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So I sat down with a piece of
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paper and I put my wife's name
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at the top, I put my, each one
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of my children down, and every
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other person that I wanted to
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pray about and every item that I
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was praying for, put that down
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on my prayer list and I put my
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finger on it, and I would go
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down it, and then I would know I
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had done it.
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[pensive music fades out]
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And I was sitting there one day
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and I looked across the room and
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I saw my work boots, and I said,
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"You know, I gotta get
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back to work." [chuckles]
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Year and a half, we hadn't
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earned anything.
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And here I am, I've gotta get
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some work going.
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And I said to my wife, "When we
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go to town, I'm gonna look for a
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new- I'm gonna go to the second
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hand store and buy a new pair of
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work boots."
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We get to tell my wife says,
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"Why don't you go to
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Workwear World?
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I said her, you know, "We can't
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afford Workwear World boots."
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"Well," she says, "Why don't you
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go to Workwear World?"
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And I thought, well, you know
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what, even as sick as I was,
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you know, I'd do anything to
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please her.
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I wanted to help her and, you
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know, I thought, I'll go down
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just to make, you know, to make
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her satisfied.
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So I go to Workwear World and I
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go there, there they are,
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Kaufman, double leather, triple
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stitch, you know, and what I
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would buy, $79.95, we don't
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have $80.
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There's no way.
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I turn to walk out
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and I see on the wall
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a sign that says $9.99.
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And there it was
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in that, right underneath the
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sign, there's work boots,
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Kaufmans, double leather,
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triple stitch.
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I turned to the lady, I said,
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you know, "What do you- what's
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going on here?
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I mean, this can't possibly,
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you know, you can't sell in
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the same store $80
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and 99- $10.
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You can't have the same boots.
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And I says, "What's wrong?
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They got no glue, were the steel
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shanks forgotten, you know,
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built the wrong factory?
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What's wrong?"
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She said, "Nothing."
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She says, "They're seven and a
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half and we can't find workmen
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that will buy them."
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I looked down at my feet.
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I got two, I got seven and a
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halfs right here.
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I give her $20, she gives me
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change.
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I'm walking towards my wife with
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a smile on my face and she, I
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could see on her face, she was
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like really worried now.
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I mean, before she could
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understand, he's depressed, he's
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ruined he's a wreck, he can't
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sleep, he's...
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Now he's smiling like a nut.
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Like, what happened to you now?
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Well, you know, what happened is
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I had put on my prayer list
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work boots.
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The lady at the store didn't
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know that.
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My wife didn't know that.
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There's only one being in the
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universe to knew that and that
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was God and He just told me He
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loved me.
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You know, I mean, that was,
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I mean, I needed that.
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I can't tell you how much I
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needed to know that.
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[uplifting music playing]
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い
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We wanted to start a lifestyle
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centre, I mean, that's why I was
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building the house for this guy
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was, you know, the idea was to
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earn money.
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We didn't earn money, but we
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were willing to start it in our
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own home.
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You know, we moved out of our
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master bedroom into one of the
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kids rooms and we got,
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you know, I put on the prayer
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request: guests.
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You know, we needed to start off
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with guests.
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Well, Dr. He in Vancouver sent
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us a lady and we started our-
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then is when we started our
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life- our first lifestyle guest
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came right at that time.
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And you know, I needed to have
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that guest and I needed to
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practice what I had been
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learning for myself, how they
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recover.
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How do you recover from this?
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And so we had our first guest.
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And so we had our first guest.
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[uplifting music concludes]
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You know, it wasn't- probably
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four guests later we had a lady
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four guests later we had a lady
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that came and she spent three
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weeks with us.
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And during that three week time,
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there was a couple that came
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to visit.
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And this couple were cute.
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They brought their own lunch
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bucket, they had their food all
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laid out, and they came to have
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lunch to visit their friend who
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had come from Airdrie.
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They lived locally here, but
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they knew her and they wanted to
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see how she did, see?
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So they came and they visited
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her and they went away.
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And toward the end of her stay,
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they came back to check on her
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to see how- what had changed,
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how, you know, what had
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improved.
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And they were so quiet.
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I mean, he virtually
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didn't talk.
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His wife talked some, but
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very quiet couple.
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And at the end he said to me,
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"Can I bring my wife
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for three weeks?"
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I said, "Sure!"
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Guy's name was Bill.
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And he comes along and
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spent three weeks with us,
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and I don't think he said
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50 words the whole time he was
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with us in three weeks.
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Very, very...
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And at the end of the
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three weeks, he says,
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"Can I help you?"
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And I looked at him, I thought,
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"Well, what what can you do?"
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Like, I mean, "Yeah, you know,
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we need help.
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We're trying to build a
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lifestyle centre.
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We've got a, you know, a
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foundation is poured,
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we've got it framed up,
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but we're gonna need help."
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He said, "Well, what do you
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need?" and I said, "Well, we
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have a caterpillar tractor
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have a caterpillar tractor
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that's been- a D6 cat
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tractor that's been donated to
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us, but it doesn't work."
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"Oh," he says, "I'll go get my
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brother."
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And he comes back and he's got a
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set of coveralls on and his
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brother's got coveralls on, they
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got their wrenches and they pull
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the tracks off this cat, they
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rip the back end open.
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They find a shaft inside, and
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it's just a small shaft, they
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get it second hand for $150.
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They come back, put it back
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together, put the tracks back on
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the cat, drive it up the hill
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and they push a road.
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We needed a, desperately needed
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a good road into the new
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lifestyle centre we're building.
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And he pushes it level.
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I said, "Bill, how did you
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do that?"
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"Well," he says, "I used to run
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cats in the seismograph lines in
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Alberta," he said "I had..."
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I think he said he had five
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D7 cats that he was running
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doing seismograph lines.
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Wow, he's a cat driver,
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you know, that's fabulous.
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He says, "Now what do you need?"
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I said, "Well, we need a set of
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cabinets."
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And he goes over and takes his
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measuring tape, and he starts
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with a piece of paper and
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he's measuring and he's,
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you know...
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Phones me up from Vernon and he
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says, "I need $600."
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And I turned to my wife and I
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said, "$600, I mean..."
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She looks at me.
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We started the building
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with $1,600.
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I mean, where are we gonna
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get $600?
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But we needed the cabinets,
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right, and so she rounded it up.
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Every cent that we had came out,
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and we gave him $600.
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And two weeks later he came with
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cabinets - uppers, lowers,
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everything.
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I mean, it was
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just imac- perfect.
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Oak, he bought oak plywood
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with the $600.
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And so we had cabinets for the
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kitchen, stainless steel sink,
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pulls on all the drawers,
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Arborite on top.
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He brought us two
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vanities for the two bathrooms
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that we had in the place, plus a
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vanity and sink
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and uppers for the laundry room.
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Okay, Bill, you know, this is
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quite a guy.
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I mean, he can he can drive cat
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and he can build cabinets.
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So then he says, "What do you
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need now?"
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I said, "Well, we need a shop."
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And he goes out with this cat
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and he's pushing back and forth
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and back and forth.
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Finally I go over and I said,
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"Bill, what are you doing?
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I mean, this is unbelievable.
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This is like...
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I mean, I want a two-car
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garage."
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He pulls out a tape, 100 feet
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one way, 40 feet the other,
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and he lays out the building,
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it's 40 by 100.
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I can't believe it.
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Okay, so how are we gonna,
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I mean, how are we gonna frame
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it, how are we gonna get it...?
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A fellow donated us the box,
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A fellow donated us the box,
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and Bill laid
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3000 blocks himself.
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I mean, I thought we needed
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money, I thought, you know...
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But, you know, the Lord showed
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me He can give you
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a pair of boots,
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He can bring you a person,
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and He can build things
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with that person's talent
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and donated material.
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One thing right after the other.
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Bill could wire, he could plumb,
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he could mechanic, he could
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run a cat.
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I mean, there was- I don't think
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there's anything he couldn't do.
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The Lord send us the right man.
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That was the found- that was the
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beginning of Silver Hills.
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beginning of Silver Hills.
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We opened the guesthouse in
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1985, right here.
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So here, you know, God sends
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us a man, I mean,
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the man who has the talent.
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That's what we needed.
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And, he had all the talents that
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we needed.
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We, at the time, we had
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plumbed the guesthouse.
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We had it all plumbed.
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We had set up rads all over the
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house, and we had put- the
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copper pipe had been hooked up
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to the rads, but I didn't have
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my boiler hooked up.
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And a man came along, actually a
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man- a couple came along to help
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us, they came to see what we
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were doing and to volunteer.
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And, he says, "What do you
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need next?"
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I said, "Well, I need my boiler
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hooked up."
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And he goes over to a cardboard
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box and he rips the flap off and
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he takes a crayon and he starts
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writing on this flap.
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And he says, "Go to town and get
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this," and I says, "What for?"
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He says, "To hook up
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your boiler."
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I says, do you know how to hook
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up a boiler, wood boiler?"
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"That's what I do for a living!"
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He says, "Of course I could-"
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So off to town I go.
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You know, I was, I mean,
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I have to say, you know,
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the Lord gave me a pair of boots
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and He gave me Bill
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and He gave me Len
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who could hook up boilers.
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And it's been- the program was
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His program.
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I mean, these are His children.
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These are His- the children that
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He needed- like I was.
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I was sick.
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He has children that are sick.
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They have all kinds- they have
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heart disease, they have
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diabetes, they have depression,
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all kinds of illnesses.
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I gotta tell you about a fellow
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that came.
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So here we are, we're walking
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home, it's October, we're
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home, it's October, we're
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walking up the driveway and this
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car pulls up.
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German people, broken English.
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"Is this a place to stay?"
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And I said to Eileen, "Do we
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have any rooms?" and she says,
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"Yeah, we have a couple rooms."
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And I said, "Would you folks
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wanna stay?
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Do you wanna stay here?"
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And they said, "Sure!"
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"Okay, we'll stay..."
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And so the next morning at
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breakfast, I'm saying, you know,
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like, "How long have you been
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in Canada?" and they said,
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"Six weeks."
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I said, "What are you
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looking for?
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You wanna buy land here or,
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you know, what do you...
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Six weeks?"
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And Uwe, he says to me, "We were
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looking for this place."
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[calm music playing]
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They actually stayed until
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they had to fly out of Calgary
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on Thursday, so they stayed
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until Wednesday and we made
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friends with them and chatted.
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It was difficult because it was
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English and German.
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And I thought, that's it,
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they're gone.
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We'll never see them again.
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Next fall- next spring, they
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phoned, said, "We wanna come
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back to Silver Hills
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for three weeks."
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So they came.
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And while we were walking
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on the nature trail,
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Uwe says to me, "You know
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what happened last year?" and I
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said, "No, I don't really know
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what happened."
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He says, "Well, when we flew
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into Calgary coming to Canada,
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we had promised our daughter no
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more smoking.
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We were smoking less,
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but we hadn't quit
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till we drove in here
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and we realized this was a no
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smoking place, and we knew
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that we were in the right spot."
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[calm music continues]
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Well, Uwe and Dorothy came back
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year after year.
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They kept coming back and
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each time they made a change.
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And Uwe, as you go closer to
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retirement, he told me, he says,
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"When I retire, I'm coming here
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to work."
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Now Uwe phoned me last year,
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he's in his 80s now,
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and he said to me, "Phil,
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Dorothy and I wanna come back
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one more time.
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We wanna come back and say
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goodbye."
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So he comes all the way over
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from Germany and, you know, you
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could tell he was starting to
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show his age, and I got him on
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the nature trails, got him
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walking.
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And you could see his, him
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started to, you know, his eyes
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lighten up and he started to get
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feeling better.
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And he phoned me and he says,
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"I'm coming back next year."
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He was saying, they're not gonna
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say goodbye, I'm gonna
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keep on living.
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So it's just really good to see
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Uwe and Dorothy and the
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improvements they made.
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[inspirational music playing]
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い
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So people asked me, you know,
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what do you teach at Silver
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Hills, I mean, what's the
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program, what's the foundation
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of the program?
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Well, we call it the Eight
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Natural Doctors.
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We start off with exercise.
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You know, the foundation of good
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health is exercise.
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health is exercise.
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And so we have nature trails,
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we have 90 acres, and we take
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people out into nature.
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[inspirational music continues]
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And we have water, we teach them
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the eliminary organs
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and the importance of
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drinking water.
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And we teach them how to deep
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breathe and how breathing helps
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them sleep at night.
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It helps them to relax.
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い
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And we have a whole probably
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four classes on nutrition.
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We start off with the Western
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diet and then we do protein, we
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do carbohydrates, we do fats.
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We do the physiology of
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digestion.
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That's one of my favourites, and
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it's one of their favourites.
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When they understand how they
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digest their food, then they
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look at how they eat their food
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somewhat differently, and they
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really appreciate that one.
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We do sunlight, we do rest,
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We do sunlight, we do rest,
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and we do one that we call
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abstemiousness, and people say,
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"What do you mean?
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Well, if it's a poison, we try
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to get them to leave it out of
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their lifestyle.
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And we also give them cooking
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school classes.
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We teach them how to cook, how
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to change your cooking, because
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we're gonna teach them to move
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away from the diet they may be
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on to a plant-based diet.
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[inspirational music continues]
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い
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And the last one, of course, my
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favourite because of my work
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boots, is trust in divine power.
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And, you know, I mean, the whole
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program is built on that.
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But we teach them that.
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And, you know, it's not-
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trust in divine power, you know,
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like when you say that people
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kinda, you know, like, "Okay,
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you're gonna get religious on
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me," and I tell them, you know,
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"This is not a religion.
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"This is not a religion.
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This is a relationship.
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You have a heavenly Father loves
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you, and He wants to give you a
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pair of work boots.
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He wants to give you that same
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experience of having your
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experience with Him, where you
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came in need and He supplied
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that need and showed you that
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He loves you.
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い
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We've got the Eight Natural
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Doctors, we've got the
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nature trails.
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And, you know, we decided that
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we wanted to do it in a way that
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people would be- felt like they
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were pampered.
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were pampered.
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So we built a spa.
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い
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And we have five massage rooms.
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We do detox wraps, we have two
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infrared saunas, we have a steam
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room, we have a hot tub.
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い
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You know, so we pamper them.
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You know, so not only are they
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getting instruction
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and exercise and gourmet meals,
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but they also- we do it
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in a spa setting
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and out in nature.
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You see, my dad,
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I think he was right.
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If we can get people away
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from the stresses, from the
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city, from all the things,
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get them out in nature.
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You know, he was always telling
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me, he said, "Nature
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is God's physician."
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[inspirational music continues]
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My father came out to
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visit Silver Hills and
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he loved it when he came here.
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He saw his vision, he saw his
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dream, you know, because he
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loved to minister to people.
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And he saw this whole project
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now was ministering to people.
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You know, he used to always say,
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you know, "The angels long
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to use our hands and our voices
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in ministering to others."
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And when he saw this place, he
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says, "That's exactly what's
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happening here.
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The angels love to use our hands
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and our voices to minister to
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other people."
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>> In his darkest hours, God
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provided Phil with a simple pair
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of work boots to reveal His love
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for him.
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And that's what Phil needed
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to get his health back.
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His father had taught him so
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much about health.
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He had studied health
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academically for himself, but
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then when he had to get his own
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health back, he began to dig
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deep and really study it.
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And what he learned became the
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foundation of what he teaches
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at Silver Hills.
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And it all began with the
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revelation of God's love through
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a pair of work boots that gave
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him the direction that he needed
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to move a mountain of obstacles.
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>> Like so many others who
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sincerely dedicated their lives
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to God's service, Phil Brewer
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was confronted by obstacles and
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overwhelmed by trials.
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Even his prayers seemed
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hard to speak.
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Like God's people in the Bible,
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we often question God.
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"If You're leading me, why do
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all these problems keep
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coming at me?"
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>> The reality is that it is
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because God is leading you that
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these overwhelming difficulties
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keep coming into your life.
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The Lord asks this question in
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the Bible...
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>> Have you ever watched a
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potter working with clay?
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The potter takes the clay and
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moulds it according to his will.
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He squeezes it and works it.
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He tears it apart and presses
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it together.
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He wets it and then dries it.
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He lets it lie for a while
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without touching it.
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And when it is perfectly
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pliable, flexible,
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bendable, able to be moulded
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according to the potter's will,
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then he continues the work of
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making it a vessel, a pot,
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or a container of some kind.
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He forms it into shape and on
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the wheel trims and polishes it.
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He dries it in the sun and bakes
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it in the oven.
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Only in this way does it become
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a vessel fit for use.
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>> This is how God, the Master
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Potter, desires to mould and
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fashion you and me.
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As the clay is in the hands of
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the potter, so am I, and so are
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you to be in God's hands.
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We are not to try to do the work
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of the potter.
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Our part is to yield ourselves,
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to be moulded by the master
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worker.
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>> That's how you become the
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hands, the feet, and the voice
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of Jesus and His angels
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to others.
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Like Phil and his entire family
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love to use their hands and
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their voices to minister to
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other people, you too can be
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truly possessed of one purpose,
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and that purpose is to live
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to bless others.
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>> Friends, you might have a lot
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of questions about health as
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Phil talked about it, and so we
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have a free offer that we can
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send to you right now.
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>> Eight Steps to Health is a
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small window into what Phil
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calls the Eight Natural Doctors.
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Our free offer, Eight Steps to
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Health, will guide you through
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eight simple changes you can
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make to help you along your own
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personal journey to live longer
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and feel better.
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>> We wish to pray for you.
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If you would like to send us
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your personal prayer requests,
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contact us is on the screen.
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Tell us your request and we will
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put you on our personal prayer
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list and pray for you
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personally.
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>> Before you go, we would like
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And if you go to our website,
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And if you go to our website,
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>> You, too, can experience the
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fullness of life found in the
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words of Jesus when He said...
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