We're here at our house
in Idaho doing a boot camp.
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It's actually, Youth
in Missions boot camp
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with a group of young people
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preparing to go to
the Philippines right now.
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For the last several days
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and in to today
and the next day,
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we've been
training these young people
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about how to wash clothes
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in the villages
in the Philippines,
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about cross cultural ministry,
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about you know,
ordering their food,
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how to work in the classroom.
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Basically, we're culturally
preparing them to know
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how to be able to
go into Philippines
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and not to experience
culture shock too much.
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My name is Jessica
Salmon and I'm from Michigan.
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My name is Joel Marshall.
My name is Kay Turnbull.
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Lindsay Charlton.
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Janice Laureen. Czarina Mae.
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My name is Mhae Madriaga.
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My name is Boying Celestre.
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Mildred Uy. Robert Francis.
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Dada Pernia.
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So my name is
Rogelio Valor Radeonor.
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Michelle
Bithynia. Venus Veloria.
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I'm Butch Altamirano. Jaffoni.
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Analyn Altamirano.
And I'm 25 years old.
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I'm 18. Twenty three years old.
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And I'm 20 years
old. I'm from Australia.
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I'm from Havana
Montana. Mindanao.
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I'm from Berrien
Springs, Michigan.
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I'm from Australia.
Been here for two years.
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We were missionaries
for almost three years now.
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So this is my
first missionary trip
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by myself to different country.
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I found out about
the Laymen Ministry
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and the Hope Channel and 3ABN.
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I watched it growing
up all through the years.
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I first found out about
Laymen Ministries on 3ABN.
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And I was
interested so I went online
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and from there I
contacted Laymen Ministry.
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Because I've
seen some of the DVDs
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and some of the way
the villagers lived.
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I had an idea of
what I was stepping into.
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I'm assisting and
staying with my parents
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as missionaries
in Northern Vanuatu
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to help to fill in
for church positions,
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teaching Sabbath
schools and helping in the house
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and also in church it
really helped me a lot
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to become more related to
other young people around.
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I work in Binuangan,
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it's one of the three Laymen
villages in the Philippines.
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I work with the
captive of people,
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they are primitive
people in the jungle.
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As I got closer and
closer my relationship with God,
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all of my desires to visit other
places kind of came together
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with the desire to serve Him
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and I became interested
in doing some mission work.
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When we got
here, the kids jumped
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on here right after
we got off the boat.
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You get hugs and
they're just very helpful.
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And when we were
approaching the island,
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I mean the place the
village, I was so touched
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because the students
and the villagers met us
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and that really
touched my heart.
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What really impress us is that,
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the people here are
very gentle and kind.
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I was thinking
my expectations were
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it was gonna be very primitive
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and it was gonna
be glorified camping
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which mostly is but its
enjoyable glorified camping
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and then, you don't
think about it after a while.
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I expected to be living in
maybe a grass hut, dirt floors.
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My expectation was that,
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I would be
living in a small house
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and I would have
a lot of children,
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who were not very clean
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and they would know any English.
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And I would have to be the one
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to explain those things to them
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and it didn't turn out anything
like I thought it would be.
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I was excited to find out that
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I wouldn't be
sleeping in the dirt.
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After Joel and
his dad slaved away
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on a building for about a month
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I got to move
into a brand new house.
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I did not expect to come here
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and, you know,
have cement floors
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and wooden walls and tin roofs.
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And my expectations
were that it will be harder.
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But when I got
here, it wasn't hard.
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It was easier than I
thought that it would be.
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The houses were neater and nicer
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than I thought it was gonna be.
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The children know quite
a lot of English actually,
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so they're very
easy to speak to once
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they get to know
you're little bit better.
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We are actually
happy when we arrived here
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because we like the
place, especially the beach.
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And we are so happy to
find lots of vegetable.
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And our kids, the two
girls were so happy to be here,
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it's like, we've been--
we are here for a vacation,
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or it's just like that.
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Just one week of staying,
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we completely
experienced the quietness,
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the serenity of the
village then when you go to bed,
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although you, you are
busy for the whole day,
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still you can, you can
experience the calmness.
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That you know that
God is really with you,
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especially the
nature is around you.
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Before I came
here I expected that
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it will be much
harder but it's there for
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and because I am teacher.
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And I didn't expect
that I'll be a teacher.
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Quite near, here
in the Jordan River.
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Do you guys remember the verse
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that we look at
in Job about-- in
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when we were
studying about the dead?
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And my job here is to
teach in the village schools
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that we have here, in Binuangan,
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I'm the grade three teacher.
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Also, we help with
some of the different things
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that come up in
mission life like being doctor,
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leading out in
worship services like that,
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so we're kind of
jack of all trades here.
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I have many jobs
here as a missionary.
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One of my first
priorities here is as a teacher.
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And this, look, you
tell me, the square pyramid,
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how many faces does it have?
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We also have responsibilities
that are rotating
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between the different teachers,
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sometimes I'm a doctor,
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sometimes I'm checking
the village for cleanliness.
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And apart from
those responsibilities
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I've had new
responsibility this year
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and that has been
sort of, a preacher.
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I don't claim to be a preacher.
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Would we the
leading man of Israel,
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bring a man to you
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if there was--
if he was innocent.
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[Speaking in foreign language]
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Before I came here, I
think I only preached once,
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and it's even
more challenging here
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because you need a translator.
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So I had to learn how to
work with the translator.
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And also your audience
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often has a very limited
understanding of the Bible.
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So you really have to
consider the words that you use,
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and the message
that I have been giving
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for the last month has
been on the last month,
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the last scenes
of Christ's life.
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In Him and judge Him
according to your law.
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[Speaking in foreign language]
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That has been, one of the
most interesting challenges
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for me this year.
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I was always a fairly shy person
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and I did not like
speaking in front of people,
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I never really even like school.
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And so, it's being a
challenge on every level
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to become a
teacher, to become a preacher
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and a doctor which I'm
not very good at that either.
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So God likes to challenge me
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on every level to
expand and to grow.
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[Speaking in foreign language]
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And I just worry
about the while ago,
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this doesn't usually happen
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but some of the illnesses
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that they were trying
to say or sickness is,
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they're having
headache or stomach ache.
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And its because,
they weren't able to eat.
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So that's why I
gave them food to eat
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because he said that he
has not eaten since morning.
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And that boy, his
parents were not staying here,
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he just staying with his
uncle and his house is far.
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They were staying in San Pablo
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and he has chosen to stay here,
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because he, he said that
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this is the
best school to study.
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One of the challenges for me
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anyway being here is
dealing with sick people.
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At home you don't usually
need to deal with sick people,
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like you do here.
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They go to the hospital
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and the doctor
deals with it but,
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but here they come to us
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and they look to us for
help and it's a challenge.
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We have to go to God and pray
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and sometimes you
just don't know what to do.
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We have seen
several people die here
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and adults and
children and it's a testified
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to pray for people
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and to see them
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struggling with illnesses.
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We gone to one
lady, who had asthma,
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and we and the
other teacher sat with her
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for about three or four hours
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before the lady called
me to come to pray for her.
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And we stayed there for another
three hours praying for her,
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before she finally fell asleep.
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One of the
challenges in teaching here
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is getting the
students to speak English.
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When I arrived here for me the,
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the students gave
me a good impression.
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They were sweet but you
know we use the term shy
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because they
don't want to speak.
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The English there
it wasn't the language
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where it wasn't
very hard to deal with.
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If you're
affectionate with the kids
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that breaks the barriers.
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For the little
ones to comprehend,
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we are going to
tell them Bible stories.
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And then ask them questions,
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comprehension questions
about the Bible stories
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that we have discussed.
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And then see if they can
answer as in full English
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and in full sentence
and the right answers
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and that's the way we can know
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that they comprehended the story
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and if they do that
their English will improve.
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Okay, put away the
book, put away the dictionary,
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clear your desks, let's begin.
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[Speaking in foreign language]
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Okay, he heard the voice,
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if don't know
the word in English
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share in Tagalog and
we'll try and help you.
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The presentation that
we had a few minutes ago
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with the grade two
and three students,
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the stories that
they've been reading.
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We asked them to share
them in front of the class
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and for some of the students
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it's what I have
expected little bit slow.
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They understand
what the story is about,
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but the problem is it's
locked in their in minds,
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they cannot
express it in English.
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If I asked them questions,
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like yes or no
questions about the story,
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they can tell me
who is in the story,
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they can tell me
what happened in the story
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but they just
don't know enough words
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to explain or to
share what they know.
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So it's all up in their brain,
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but they can't get
it out of their mouth.
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And that's why we
are trying to focus
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on English comprehension,
that's why it's so important.
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But now they're really trying
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to understand
whatever you are saying.
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And they have been matured
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and their level of education
has improved and it's very nice.
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And the words that came
from them really encourage me
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to still or to pitch
more of this kind of students
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although it's
hard, but it's worthy.
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And of course
hopefully as they get older
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we want them to
get al leading role
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in spiritual
life of their villages
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as they grow and
experience with God.
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And if they're afraid to
speak to only a few people
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when lot's of people
come together for worship,
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they will not be
able to effectively share
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whatever God
puts on their hearts
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to share with the people.
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And so it's
important that they learned
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not to be ashamed of themselves.
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They to have to get courage
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to express their
thoughts they become very stiff,
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they're scared and they
cannot express themselves at all
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which is gonna be a big problem
for them as they get older
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because when they go to college,
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they have to do a lot of
that in the worship services
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and when they are sharing
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their thoughts
with their professors.
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And so this is--
we are trying to lay
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a foundation now in our schools
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so that they can build on that
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as they go to high
school as they go on to college.
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That the things that like things
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there are little
things that I see God working.
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When I hear from my students
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that words that show me
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that there's a spark
of spiritual life in them
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that they are
starting to grow in faith
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that's what keeps me
here. It's not that I--
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I'm so interested
to get them to college.
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I'm interested to get them
into a relationship with God.
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And when I see that happening,
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that's what keeps me here,
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it makes me
excited to work for God.
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I'm looking to the future
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that I will have with
these people in heaven
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if they accept
Christ that's why I'm here.
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I want to see my
students in heaven.
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I want to see
these villages there.
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That will make
heaven so much better.
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This year the most
rewarding experience
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has been having a small part
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in one of my
students in my class Manny,
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my grade two student
having a part in his development
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with his relationship with God.
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And he made a decision recently
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that he would-- he
wants to be baptized,
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he wants to give
his life to the Lord,
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he wants to live for Him.
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And so just to know
that there's something small
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that I did because I know that
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he's already-- he was already
developing before he met me.
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But just to know
that I had a part in that,
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it just brings so
much joy to my heart
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that I can make a difference
like that in somebody's life.
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That what I say, what I do,
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the way that I treat
people can bring them
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closer to a
relationship with the Lord
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and just it's amazing for me.
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This co-year, one of the
most wonderful experiences
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that I could not really
forget from my whole life.
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One day when I was
teaching Bible values class
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with my students and me--
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I'm handling grade one students
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and at the middle of my teaching
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I was teaching self
control at that time
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and one of my students told me
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that ma'am, I
really like our discussion.
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And I've learnt a lot of things
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because he was so impatient
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and he never heard
before about those things.
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Then just the Holy Spirit
whispering to me and said,
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"Mildred, you pray
with your students."
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Then after that we prayed.
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Then when we
prayed the students--
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that he was really enjoying
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that he never heard
about Bible, about God before.
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When he prayed he lay
down and he beat his chest,
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"Oh, ma'am, oh, it's so nice.
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That evil is
removed from my heart.
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The evil was
removed from my heart."
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Then he walked out to
our-- from our classroom
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and he was so thankful.
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And that's the
way that he started
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to study more about God's word
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and he was
baptized this co-year, yeah.
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Well, while I've
been here in Vanuatu
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for the last more than a year
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I've been helping
out teaching early teens,
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early teenage group class.
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There's been many
challenges teaching them
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but it's been a real blessings
for us seeing them changing,
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changing some of the ways
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that most are going
through many struggles as well.
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When I get up in the morning,
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I have my devotion and
then we have family worship
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and then breakfast.
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But of course, its usually
hundreds of interruptions
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started there starting
from early in the morning
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or even during the night.
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And okay, so I am
start to see sick people come
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and knocking on
the door and asking
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my dad to come and see them.
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So it's been
emergency in the night.
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After we'd breakfast
then I wash the plates
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and then I usually
start getting into my studies.
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And we have
lunch in the afternoon,
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early afternoon and
then in the later afternoon
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I try and lay that free
time for whatever comes up
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whether to helping
dad or assisting mom
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as whatever she needs to do.
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Like moving stuff around,
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then helping dad get
stuff from the ship for
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many, many different
things up in the afternoons.
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Yes, I've been with mom and dad
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on quite a few
different boat trips
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to different islands visiting,
visiting different islands
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so that we can help with medical
cases on different islands.
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And they are really
exciting trips 'cause
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usually a lot of
the time the water
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isn't as quiet and
peace, peaceful as you'd like
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and it's pretty rough.
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When on two, three meters
waves and choppy and very rough.
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But it's, yeah,
it's a great experience
00:20:01.24\00:20:02.78
going out in the water and
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reaching your
destinations safely.
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Yeah, it's really good and then
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when you get to see other people
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on different
islands that need help
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that in helping
them pulling their teeth
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and sewing up cuts and whatever
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it's really
enjoyable experience.
00:20:19.84\00:20:22.81
One really interesting
case that happened recently was
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dad had to operate on a
lady who had ectopic pregnancy
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so he had to do laparotomy
'cause we can evacuate her
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out of a remote island in times
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so he had to do
the surgery here.
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And while he was doing
surgery he asked me to be the
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scrub nurse so to help
with lot of different things
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being scrub nurse.
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When I first
started with surgery
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helping dad with
different surgical cases
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I found the blood a
little bit a challenge
00:21:12.26\00:21:14.94
but eventually I
got used to it and
00:21:14.97\00:21:16.77
now it's not a problem anymore.
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Being involved
in the mission field
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is really being an
encouragement to me.
00:21:20.37\00:21:22.41
Especially my spiritual life
has gained a lot of blessings
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and it's been a believer, a
real blessing to make a big,
00:21:25.28\00:21:29.98
to grow up in the mission field
during my early and late teens
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because its help me
to keep focused I believe
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so that I'm not--
it's not really interested
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in the things of
the world so much
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but yeah, it's
really an encouragement to
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and a blessing to
be working with people
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that are so much in need.
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With my life in America,
00:21:50.57\00:21:53.24
my constant thought was about
00:21:53.27\00:21:57.05
how am I gonna get
enough money to make ends need.
00:21:57.08\00:22:00.49
How am I gonna get the
career as I always wanted.
00:22:00.52\00:22:02.73
How am I gonna get
this, how am I gonna get that?
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Compared to my missionary life,
00:22:05.13\00:22:07.04
we are not-- I'm
not worried about
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becoming better
than anyone else.
00:22:08.29\00:22:10.17
I can devote my time to
thinking about others about
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how to be of service to others.
00:22:13.57\00:22:16.17
How to touch people's lives,
00:22:16.20\00:22:18.56
how to lead them in a
relationship with God.
00:22:18.59\00:22:23.54
And it does so much for my
own relationship with them.
00:22:23.57\00:22:26.94
And so much more at
peace, my mind goes at rest.
00:22:26.97\00:22:32.41
I can be myself, I
don't have to worry about
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becoming something that I'm not.
00:22:35.18\00:22:37.91
I would highly
recommend this experience.
00:22:37.94\00:22:42.02
Oh, sure I'll come back.
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This is the kind of
work that I would like to do
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'cause I know that I
have peace of mind and
00:22:46.52\00:22:49.44
I would live in God's
way as well, God's will.
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Working in the mission,
00:22:52.58\00:22:54.29
at first if you have some fears
00:22:54.32\00:22:57.58
just give it to the Lord.
00:22:57.61\00:22:59.73
Give them to the Lord.
00:22:59.76\00:23:01.67
And every fear will be vanished
00:23:01.70\00:23:05.13
as what we had experienced.
00:23:05.16\00:23:08.70
But when you know
that that is God's--
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God that is calling
you for mission work
00:23:12.76\00:23:14.58
and that your
life is in His hands,
00:23:14.61\00:23:17.16
you can go forward in faith,
00:23:17.19\00:23:19.24
you will enjoy the experience
00:23:19.27\00:23:21.16
in knowing that God is
working things for good.
00:23:21.19\00:23:24.77
We've always praying that God
lead us not for our own selves
00:23:24.80\00:23:30.33
but continue to
bless us for others.
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The reason why I
take missionary service is
00:23:33.66\00:23:37.06
more satisfying
for me it's because
00:23:37.09\00:23:40.64
I know that what I'm
doing is going to impact
00:23:40.67\00:23:42.91
somebody's life for eternity.
00:23:42.94\00:23:44.93
And if I were just studying
or just working somewhere,
00:23:44.96\00:23:50.21
I'm sure that what I do will
have impact on somebody's life.
00:23:50.24\00:23:53.92
Evidently, it does but
to be able to touch someone
00:23:53.95\00:23:57.47
to introduce them to Jesus
and acquaint Him as their Savior
00:23:57.50\00:24:02.89
and to see them take those
steps and it is nothing like it.
00:24:02.92\00:24:07.23
And nothing beats it.
00:24:07.26\00:24:08.70
One of the
biggest hesitations about
00:24:12.89\00:24:15.07
becoming missionary is
that you, it's something new.
00:24:15.10\00:24:21.18
You have never
done it before and
00:24:21.21\00:24:23.90
you don't know what
it's going to be like.
00:24:23.93\00:24:26.83
Being here for me has
00:24:26.86\00:24:30.21
brought a different
perspective of God for me.
00:24:30.24\00:24:35.77
Before when I came
here I believed in God but
00:24:35.80\00:24:38.29
I didn't believe in
having a relationship with God.
00:24:38.32\00:24:40.65
I just kind of thought,
oh, God's there, you know.
00:24:40.68\00:24:44.62
If I'm scared, He's there.
00:24:44.65\00:24:46.34
But being here it's
really made me realized
00:24:46.37\00:24:48.89
the need to have a one
on one relationship with Him
00:24:48.92\00:24:53.46
and that-- you
need Him everyday.
00:24:53.49\00:24:58.88
I guess just being
put in extreme environment
00:24:58.91\00:25:01.22
or you fell like, you know,
everything's gone against you
00:25:01.25\00:25:05.67
and things
aren't gone your way but
00:25:05.70\00:25:08.10
to have that
extra support from God
00:25:08.13\00:25:10.19
is just like a
full of peace of mind.
00:25:10.22\00:25:13.97
And it's been really
good for me being here
00:25:14.00\00:25:18.20
and to find me out for
myself what He's about.
00:25:18.23\00:25:24.01
That do not expect that your
missionary trip will be what
00:25:24.04\00:25:29.50
you wanted it to be, it
will be what God wants it to be.
00:25:29.53\00:25:32.92
Just to come with an open mind
00:25:32.95\00:25:34.89
and not to come with the
expectation that you know,
00:25:34.92\00:25:38.98
I know everything
00:25:39.01\00:25:40.19
and I've got
this covered 'cause,
00:25:40.22\00:25:44.46
no, it just
doesn't work that way.
00:25:44.49\00:25:46.20
There's a lot of missions
out there that won't accept
00:25:46.23\00:25:48.80
people who are
unqualified like me.
00:25:48.83\00:25:52.66
So it was nice to see a
ministry that would accept me.
00:25:52.69\00:25:57.36
I don't know.
00:26:06.44\00:26:07.47
I don't think I'm ever going to
00:26:07.50\00:26:08.87
miss the camera
in front of my face.
00:26:08.90\00:26:10.49
As I do --
00:26:13.64\00:26:15.59
It's an opportunity to grow like
00:26:15.62\00:26:20.39
you will never
grow in any other place.
00:26:20.42\00:26:23.68
Because you get responsibilities
00:26:23.71\00:26:28.01
that you would
not choose yourself
00:26:28.04\00:26:30.30
but that God chooses for you
00:26:30.33\00:26:32.93
because He knows that
00:26:32.96\00:26:33.99
when you're put
in the situations,
00:26:34.02\00:26:36.33
you will grow.
00:26:36.36\00:26:38.26
And also don't be
afraid to become a missionary
00:26:38.29\00:26:41.82
if you don't think
that you have the skills.
00:26:41.85\00:26:43.95
Because God is the
one who gives talent,
00:26:43.98\00:26:46.66
He's the one who gives skills.
00:26:46.69\00:26:49.04
All God wants is a missionary
00:26:49.07\00:26:53.20
who is willing to
submit themselves to His will.
00:26:53.23\00:26:58.11
The most important
thing about being a missionary
00:26:58.14\00:27:00.95
is not your skill but
00:27:00.98\00:27:04.56
will you allow Him
to work in your life.
00:27:04.59\00:27:07.66
Will you bring your
life before Him to morning
00:27:07.69\00:27:12.14
till evening and
say, "God, teach me 'cause
00:27:12.17\00:27:14.82
I don't know how
to be a missionary."
00:27:14.85\00:27:17.23
If you do that,
there's no way that
00:27:17.26\00:27:19.51
you cannot
succeed as a missionary.
00:27:19.54\00:27:21.76
You will have a
life changing experience.
00:27:21.79\00:27:26.91
I'm Jeff Reich,
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