(inspiring music)
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- [Mary Ann] We've
grown up in the church
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and have always been
somewhat involved in outreach,
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but how can we get
involved in missions overseas?
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My name is Mary Ann.
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- [Lilyann] And I'm Lilyann.
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- [Mary Ann] We
wanted to find out.
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Join us in our journey.
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(gong sounds)
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To discover the
culture, the lifestyle, the need
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and the mission in
two of Southeast Asia's
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least reached countries.
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Welcome to Mission Trek.
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- Hey, welcome back.
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- Today, we are gonna
see a lot of exciting things
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as well as meet and
talk to a mystery missionary.
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- If you
remember from last time,
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we arrived in Thailand
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and spent our first couple
of days getting over jet lag.
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- Which thankfully
wasn't too bad for us this time
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because we went
and hiked five miles
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in the freezing
weather in China.
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- Yes.
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- So, that kind
of helped us adjust
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to the sleeping
schedule a little better.
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- And then,
Sabbath, after sun down,
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we went and got a fish massage.
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- Which was
quite the experience.
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- Definitely.
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- You had fun.
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- Yeah, I did.
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- It tickled so bad.
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We were all screaming.
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- Yes.
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- Well, you were screaming.
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- It was definitely
not what I was expecting.
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- Yeah.
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- And then we went back to
our hotel and totally crashed
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because we were so exhausted.
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- So tired.
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And then Sunday morning,
we had to get up really early
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because we got a tour
of the floating market.
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- Which for our viewers,
what is a floating market?
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- Well, you'll just have to see.
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(acoustic music)
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- [Lilyann] The
place we are going today
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is a floating market
called Damneon Saduak.
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It's the most popular
floating market for tourists.
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It was built in 1968
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and became a
tourist attraction in 1971.
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So, Mary Ann just bought
a set of little coin purses
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for people back home to
take for them as souvenirs.
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So we got something
at the river market.
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- One fifty. (mumbles)
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(laughing)
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- (mumbles)
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- What's that?
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- No.
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- I like the cowboy's hats.
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- What?
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(acoustic music)
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- It's great just
being around all the people
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and seeing, like
all the activity.
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- And what they do everyday.
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Like, they're here
everyday selling stuff and.
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- This is just life to them,
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living on the river
in little shacks and
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we saw people that
were fishing in the water
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and that's their food, so.
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(inspiring music)
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- They are loose, Lilyann.
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- Oh, my word!
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You're getting this on camera.
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- Snakes are cool,
but she doesn't like them.
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- Oh, look at like, the-
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- (mumbles) very cheap for you.
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(inspiring music)
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(group chatters)
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- No, no.
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- [Anonymous Man] No?
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- I can't (drowned out by crowd)
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(inspiring music)
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(crowd chatters)
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- [Mary Ann] Are you having fun?
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- Yeah.
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It's really
interesting, really cool.
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(inspiring music)
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- Pythons don't bite people
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- No, they just
squeeze the life out of you.
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(inspiring music)
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(crowd chatters)
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- [Anonymous
Man] (mumbles) Sorry.
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(gasps) Pooping! (laughs)
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No.
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- [Lilyann] It's
good to, the difference,
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Like in America, you would
never see something like this
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and it's really
good cultural experience
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to see how they actually live.
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- [Anonymous Voice]
Water bottle, thank you.
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- Eugh!
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(laughing)
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(inspiring music)
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- (drowned out by crowd)
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- (screams)
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- This is so cool!
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- It's really cool!
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It's just a little bit freaky.
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So, so cool.
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- [Anonymous Male]
Lilyann, do you wanna try it?
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- No, no, no, no.
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I am not a snake person.
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I'd rather just watch them.
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- No.
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- [Lilyann] Okay, so
we're about to get on a boat
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and go through the village
this time instead of the market
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like we did last time.
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It's gonna be a faster boat.
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It has a motor, so.
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It's gonna be awesome!
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(inspiring music)
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We were on the boat
going through the village
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and they just
dropped us off here
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so we're not really sure
what we're doing right now.
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So, as we were on the boat,
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I was just looking at,
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like how life's so
much different here.
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They just live in
little shacks along the river
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and all their trash and sewer
just gets run into the water.
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So I was thinking like,
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what if this is the only part
of the world you'd ever seen,
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like this is the only
life you've ever known?
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For all these
people, that's their reality,
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so it's just we have
to reach them somehow
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and you have to be
willing to sacrifice a lot to
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to come and live like they do.
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- This stuff here is like
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the traditional
tools that they use
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for agriculture,
fishing, transportation.
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So we have,
like, different things
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like boats and fish
traps and plows and scoops
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and just a bunch
of really cool stuff
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that's really cool to see
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like the different culture
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and what sort of other
tools are different from ours.
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- They put a lot
of us in this van.
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Last time we, on the
way here, we only had 12
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and I think we have like 16.
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- That's good.
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I like that one.
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- So it's a little tight.
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(somber music)
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- [Anonymous
Male] What did you think
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of the whole floating market?
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- It was really, really
awesome that we got to go.
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- [Mary Ann] It was, it
was incredible experience.
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I got to hold a boa constrictor,
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a really, really big
one, and a slow loris
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and they're so awesome.
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Very, very glad
that we were able to go.
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She, she didn't hold it.
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She's too chicken.
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- No, I touched the slow loris
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and I looked at
the boa constrictor.
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This evening, we are
going to a night market,
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so that should be cool,
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'cause neither one of use
have done that before either.
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We are in a taxi, which
you probably can notice.
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- We've reached the market,
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but we have no way to contact
the other half of our group.
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And they're not here yet
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or they're not where we are,
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so we don't really
know how to find them.
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So we just have
to pray right now.
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- [Lilyann] After a few
more minutes of anxious waiting,
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the other half of
the group did show up
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and we were able to venture
into the public market area.
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There were a lot of
different things for sale.
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Of course, Mary
Ann found the puppies.
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They also had a
local food market,
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so we went there to sample
some delicious delicacies.
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Some looked
healthy and some didn't,
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and others looked really spicy.
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(calm music)
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After that, we went out
into the Chatuchak night market,
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where hundreds of
vendors have their stalls set up
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selling all kinds of stuff.
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It is very popular
with the locals there
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because you can
find great deals.
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Shouldn't there be a booth
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where people can
learn about Jesus, also?
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So we've been
visiting all these markets
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and doing lots of touristy stuff
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that not many
missionaries spend a lot of time
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doing touristy stuff,
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because they are more trying
to reach people, obviously.
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But we think it's good
to get to know the culture,
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get to know the
lifestyle of the locals
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and that way you can
reach them more on a level
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that they recognize
and understand better
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and can connect with.
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Also, when missionaries, like,
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they have their
families come to visit them,
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when they do
touristy stuff with them
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and take like, a
vacation kind of,
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and then they have
places to come and hang out
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and visit with the people also
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and with their family.
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- [Mary Ann] We were
tired as we headed back
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to our hotel in Tuk Tuk.
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(calm music)
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- Well, that was well
worth getting up early for.
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- Yep, that was a lot of fun.
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- It was.
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- We got to, I mean,
I got to hold a snake.
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You were a little hesitant.
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- I was very happy
not to be part of that.
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- It was fun though.
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It was big and cuddly.
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- Hardly cuddly.
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- Not words
people would usually use
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to describe a snake but-
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- Not words normal
people use to describe a snake.
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- True, true.
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- Was like weird
looking and weird feeling
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and huge and scary.
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- Well, obviously,
I enjoyed the snake,
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but what did you enjoy?
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- I enjoyed the boat ride.
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That was fun.
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- That was fun too, that was.
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- The one with
the motor was better
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than the other
one that was slower.
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- Yeah, yeah, we had to see,
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you go through really fast.
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Got to see everything.
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- Oh, yeah, going through
the village just like seeing,
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like, you could see
their homes just right there,
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their porches right
above the water and like.
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- Yeah, like
that's where they live.
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- That's their whole life, yeah
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- Yeah.
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When going through the
market, we also got to stop
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and hold a slow loris,
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which I'd never
even seen one before.
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- Neither had I.
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- So, that was really fun.
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- Yeah.
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- So, what is this doing here?
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- Well, during our
ride through the market-
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- Mm-hmm.
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- We got a picture taken of us,
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and then they
put it on this plate
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and when we were
finished, they sold it to us.
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- [Mary Ann] It's a
cool, little souvenir.
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Reminder of our awesome
time at the floating market.
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- Yeah.
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- Earlier, we
were talking about how
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this is real life for people,
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but it kind of just
looks like a tourist trap.
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Like, where'd it even come from?
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- Hundreds of years ago,
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the floating market was
the only way that people had
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to buy things and
get what they needed.
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- Mm-hmm.
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- Because they
didn't have a road system.
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They just had canals,
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and that's how they
traveled and got around.
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- Wow.
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- Yeah, and Bangkok
itself is actually built
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on a swampy area near a river
that goes through the city.
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- Oh, okay.
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- And actually
sinks some every year.
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- Really?
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- Yeah.
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- Wow, Bangkok is
such a huge city though.
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- It is.
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- It's like 13 million
people that live there, right?
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- That's what I've heard, yeah.
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- My dad did some calculations
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and there are about 1200
Adventists that live in the city
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and if every Adventist
talked to just one person a day,
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it would take 30 years
for them to talk to everybody.
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- Wow, that's a long time.
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- It's really daunting.
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There's a lot of work
that needs to be done.
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- There is.
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Earlier, we
mentioned that we would be
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talking to a mystery missionary.
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We can't tell you her real name
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because she works
in a closed country.
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And if the wrong
people found out,
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she could get
into a lot of trouble.
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We ended up meeting her
by accident when we were in
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Bangkok. We actually weren't
even planning on interviewing
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her. God just worked it
out for her to be in Bangkok
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the same time we were there.
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- Mm-hmm.
00:13:34.14\00:13:35.48
- And I think it's a good
thing that we interviewed her.
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- It was.
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I was really inspired
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and I know the
viewers will be as well.
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- Yeah.
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- So, it's a little long,
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but we think
you'll really enjoy it.
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(calm music)
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- We're here in
the middle of Bangkok.
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We're on the roof of our guest
house that we're staying in,
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and you can see a
pretty good view from here.
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You can hear all the noise
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because there's a construction
site right next door to us
00:14:11.85\00:14:14.28
and it's gonna be pretty loud,
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but we're gonna
try to make it work.
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So, we're gonna be
interviewing Elizabeth.
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She's a missionary
and we're really excited
00:14:20.56\00:14:22.92
to get to hear more
about what she does.
00:14:22.92\00:14:25.03
- So, our first
question to Elizabeth is:
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Where do you work?
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- I work in Asia in a
tribal area near a village.
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I came here
because this is where
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I really felt God leading me.
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And I currently work
as a nurse in a clinic
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and I also help train students
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to become medical missionaries
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and they learn
about natural remedies
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so they can work
in their home villages
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where medical treatment
and doctors and hospitals
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are not available.
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- Why are you doing all this?
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- [Elizabeth] I'm doing
this because in high school,
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I really felt God
impressing me to become a nurse
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and I felt like he was
telling me to become a nurse
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because he knew he wanted
me to do medical mission work.
00:15:05.33\00:15:09.14
So, ever since high school,
and all through nursing school,
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I knew that I wanted to
become a medical missionary.
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And so, now I'm able to
use what God has given me,
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what God has
taught me, in his service.
00:15:17.75\00:15:20.85
- That's very inspiring.
00:15:20.85\00:15:22.65
- That's great that
you were in tune with God
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through high school and stuff,
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and know like, what you
felt like what your calling was.
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- So, there was a lot of prayer
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and it took me about a year
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to really listen to
God's voice to come here.
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So, I argued
with God a little bit
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and all of my reasons for
staying in the United States-
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God gave me an answer,
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and so it's like all
my excuses for staying,
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God completely
erased all of them.
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- What could, like
people that are watching,
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and Mary Ann and I,
what could we do to help
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with the project
you're working with?
00:16:01.72\00:16:04.26
- Definitely prayer,
00:16:04.26\00:16:05.63
because anyone, anywhere,
at any time, can always pray
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no matter the situation, no
matter how far away you are,
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you can always, always pray
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and that can make
a huge difference.
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And also, be prepared to
go wherever God leads you.
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Learn as much as you can
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in as many
different areas as you can.
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Learn as many
different skills as you can.
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Learn electrical work.
00:16:24.75\00:16:26.61
Learn how to make
a charcoal poultice.
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Learn how to
give a hot foot bath.
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Lots of simple
things you can learn at home
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that you can use in
the mission field overseas
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and you can also use these
things in the mission field
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in your home country.
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- And that's great.
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- I think it's really neat
how, like even younger people
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like, can still do stuff
even if they're not overseas
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and it's something definitely
everyone should consider.
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Definitely prayer
especially is very important.
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- In preparing them for-
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- Yes.
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Something that they might be
able to do when they're older.
00:17:02.38\00:17:03.92
- Yes, absolutely,
and that's very important
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because sometimes,
we think we're young
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and there's
nothing that we can do now
00:17:09.76\00:17:11.69
and sometimes people
think they're too old
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and there's nothing they can do,
00:17:14.40\00:17:15.40
but they can always pray.
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And even though someone
may think they're too young
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to do something now,
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they still are in the
process of being prepared
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for what God wants to
use them for in the future.
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And sometimes, God teaches
us lessons or we take a class
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or we have an experience
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and we don't know
why this happened.
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It doesn't make any sense.
00:17:35.58\00:17:36.95
It doesn't fit with anything
else in the rest of our life,
00:17:36.95\00:17:39.02
but God has a reason for it,
00:17:39.02\00:17:42.19
and so then, one day, it hits!
00:17:42.19\00:17:44.09
(gasps) God, you're so smart!
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This is why you
had me learn that.
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This is why you had
me in this situation.
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And then it makes
sense and you understand
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God really does have a plan.
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And you can really claim
the promises of Jeremiah 29:11.
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Where God says, "I know
the plans that I have for you.
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Plans to prosper
you and not to harm you,
00:18:04.05\00:18:06.58
plans to give you a
hope and an expected end."
00:18:06.58\00:18:09.82
So, even though, we
don't know what he wants
00:18:09.82\00:18:11.35
to do with us in the future,
00:18:11.35\00:18:12.42
we can still learn
as much as we can now
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so that wherever he calls us,
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we can do as much as
we can wherever we go.
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- So what is life
like for kids over there?
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Like what are
some of the differences
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between, like, our
life and their life?
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- [Elizabeth] Hmm,
There are huge differences.
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For starters, the children
do not have the same nurturing
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that most of the
children in the US have
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because parents in the US
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usually are very excited
and happy to have children
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and people
overseas where I work,
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sometimes they're not
as excited to have children
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because they think
this is another person
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that I have to feed,
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another person that
I have to take care of.
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And the children are almost
seen as a burden or a curse
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instead of a blessing.
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And so, sometimes the children,
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they don't get the
love and the affection
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that they really need,
00:19:01.37\00:19:03.10
and sometimes, they
disappear for a couple of days
00:19:03.10\00:19:06.41
and you'll ask the parents,
"Where are your children?",
00:19:06.41\00:19:08.51
and they say, "We don't know.
00:19:08.51\00:19:10.21
He left a couple days ago.
00:19:10.21\00:19:12.11
He'll come back
in a day or two."
00:19:12.11\00:19:14.35
And, and then also, the parents
00:19:14.35\00:19:17.52
don't always
teach their children
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the differences
between right and wrong.
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They just let them
do whatever they want,
00:19:21.29\00:19:23.43
and then if they make a
mistake and they get hurt,
00:19:23.43\00:19:26.90
the parents think,
oh that's your own fault
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because you made the mistake.
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But the parents never taught
them how to make wise decisions
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and to avoid these mistakes.
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- That's really sad.
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- So, a lot of people think that
00:19:40.18\00:19:42.84
when you go to
the mission field,
00:19:42.84\00:19:45.68
you're saving lives everyday
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and you're
bandaging machete wounds
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and you're delivering babies
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and you're surviving storms
00:19:52.12\00:19:55.12
but a lot of what
happens in the mission field
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is routine daily things.
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You're washing
your laundry by hand.
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You're cooking
your food over a fire.
00:20:00.56\00:20:02.56
In the midst of
all of these things,
00:20:02.56\00:20:04.17
you're witnessing for God.
00:20:04.17\00:20:05.20
When you go and
interact in the communities
00:20:05.20\00:20:07.04
and when you are even
just doing your laundry
00:20:07.04\00:20:10.67
because we're supposed to
do, everything that we do,
00:20:10.67\00:20:12.67
we're supposed to do
it to the glory of God.
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So, there are simple things
that seem mundane and routine,
00:20:14.58\00:20:18.38
but we still have to do those
things to the glory of God.
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And sometimes, people also think
00:20:21.78\00:20:24.15
that they have to be a doctor
to go to the mission field,
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or they have to be
a pastor to preach,
00:20:26.62\00:20:29.32
but that's not true at all.
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And there are even
things that you girls know
00:20:30.89\00:20:32.83
that people in the
villages may not know.
00:20:32.83\00:20:34.96
So for example, you know
you should wash your hands
00:20:34.96\00:20:37.77
after using the restroom,
00:20:37.77\00:20:39.23
and you should wash your
hands before you prepare food.
00:20:39.23\00:20:42.30
You should wash your
hands before you eat.
00:20:42.30\00:20:44.61
You should take a bath
every day so you can be clean.
00:20:44.61\00:20:47.71
You should brush your teeth
00:20:47.71\00:20:48.98
so your teeth
don't rot and fall out.
00:20:48.98\00:20:50.45
But many people in the
villages, they don't know this,
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So there's so much that
you could teach even adults
00:20:53.65\00:20:56.48
that are two or
three times your age.
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- Wow.
00:20:58.85\00:21:00.16
- So there's a lot
that you already know
00:21:00.16\00:21:01.22
that you could teach.
00:21:01.22\00:21:03.12
- I guess you take for granted
00:21:03.12\00:21:04.23
that everybody
just knows that stuff.
00:21:04.23\00:21:07.03
- It's true.
00:21:07.03\00:21:08.10
It's really true.
00:21:08.10\00:21:09.06
And that's one of the things
00:21:09.06\00:21:10.87
that's so different
about the culture is that
00:21:10.87\00:21:13.60
they don't even know
how to wash their hands
00:21:13.60\00:21:16.87
with soap and water.
00:21:16.87\00:21:17.94
They may have never
used soap in their life,
00:21:17.94\00:21:20.71
and then they
get lots of diseases.
00:21:20.71\00:21:22.48
They get sick because they're
not cleaning their hands,
00:21:22.48\00:21:26.01
they're not washing their
fruits before they eat them.
00:21:26.01\00:21:29.08
And so, if you can just
teach people simple education
00:21:29.08\00:21:32.95
of how to prepare
food in a clean way,
00:21:32.95\00:21:35.76
how to have a clean body,
00:21:35.76\00:21:37.79
then you can actually save
lives just by washing hands
00:21:37.79\00:21:41.46
and teaching them
to wash their hands.
00:21:41.46\00:21:43.93
- Wow.
00:21:45.40\00:21:46.67
- So, you can
make a big difference
00:21:46.67\00:21:48.30
with what you already
have and what you already know.
00:21:48.30\00:21:51.64
- I think that's
really inspiring,
00:21:51.64\00:21:53.17
like for people who don't
have lots of talents maybe,
00:21:53.17\00:21:55.88
like there's special people
00:21:55.88\00:21:58.25
that aren't very
special people, maybe.
00:21:58.25\00:22:00.62
- [Elizabeth] Mm-hmm.
00:22:00.62\00:22:01.72
- 'Cause like
even the simple stuff
00:22:01.72\00:22:02.98
can make such a big difference.
00:22:02.98\00:22:04.52
- Yes, exactly, and
there's a saying I really like
00:22:04.52\00:22:07.49
and it says, "God does
not call the qualified.
00:22:07.49\00:22:12.43
He qualifies the called.",
00:22:12.43\00:22:14.60
so he can call us to
do something and we think,
00:22:14.60\00:22:16.87
"God, what am I gonna do?"
00:22:16.87\00:22:17.97
And then once we
get there, we realize,
00:22:17.97\00:22:20.60
"Oh, this is what
you want me to do."
00:22:20.60\00:22:22.50
and God can give you
the training that you need.
00:22:22.50\00:22:26.11
- It sounds
like there's a lot of
00:22:26.11\00:22:27.78
challenges and
difficulties maybe,
00:22:27.78\00:22:29.94
but what really keeps you here?
00:22:29.94\00:22:32.38
- What keeps me here is,
00:22:32.38\00:22:34.35
definitely, I know that
this is God's will for my life
00:22:34.35\00:22:38.19
beyond a shadow of a doubt.
00:22:38.19\00:22:40.32
And even though I
haven't been here very long,
00:22:40.32\00:22:42.69
I've completely fallen
in love with the culture
00:22:42.69\00:22:45.43
and the people and the
food and the work that I do
00:22:45.43\00:22:49.60
and the people have
really become like my family
00:22:49.60\00:22:53.00
and the place has
become like my home.
00:22:53.00\00:22:55.37
So, when I talk about going
back to the states to visit,
00:22:55.37\00:22:59.21
instead of saying,
"I'm going back home.",
00:22:59.21\00:23:01.64
I say, "I'm
going to the states."
00:23:01.64\00:23:03.31
because I think of
this as my home now.
00:23:03.31\00:23:06.41
It's not like I'm
just here for a job.
00:23:06.41\00:23:10.25
I'm here fully,
completely dedicated
00:23:10.25\00:23:13.29
to wherever God
leads while I'm here.
00:23:13.29\00:23:15.12
- I feel like
that should always be
00:23:15.12\00:23:17.36
like, if you're
gonna be a missionary,
00:23:17.36\00:23:19.29
you should always be sure
00:23:19.29\00:23:21.23
that that's
where God's leading you
00:23:21.23\00:23:22.03
and you should always, like,
00:23:22.03\00:23:23.77
don't just do it
for a job or something.
00:23:23.77\00:23:27.14
You should always
be, like, dedicated
00:23:27.14\00:23:28.74
and want to
actually make a difference.
00:23:28.74\00:23:31.24
- Yes.
00:23:31.24\00:23:32.07
- To have that passion.
00:23:32.07\00:23:32.91
- Yes, absolutely.
00:23:32.91\00:23:34.38
Even if we're doing
something we may not enjoy,
00:23:34.38\00:23:38.05
we can still pray and ask
God to help us enjoy that.
00:23:38.05\00:23:41.62
So, we may think, ugh,
I'm cleaning the bathroom.
00:23:41.62\00:23:43.85
This is no fun.
00:23:43.85\00:23:45.39
But it can be a blessing.
00:23:45.39\00:23:47.39
And one good friend of mine,
00:23:47.39\00:23:49.22
we both do not like
washing our laundry by hand
00:23:49.22\00:23:52.73
because it takes so much time
00:23:52.73\00:23:53.76
and we feel like
there's nothing we can do.
00:23:53.76\00:23:55.83
We're just
wasting all this time.
00:23:55.83\00:23:58.03
But we both realized,
we can listen to sermons
00:23:58.03\00:24:00.87
while we're doing our laundry.
00:24:00.87\00:24:03.04
So now, it's like, "Hey, I'm
gonna go do my laundry today."
00:24:03.04\00:24:06.88
I'm really excited
because now I have time
00:24:06.88\00:24:08.98
to listen to this
sermon I've really been wanting
00:24:08.98\00:24:10.81
to listen to,
00:24:10.81\00:24:11.95
or to call a
family member and talk to,
00:24:11.95\00:24:13.88
or a friend
00:24:13.88\00:24:15.28
that we haven't been able
to talk to in a long time.
00:24:15.28\00:24:16.92
So now, we actually look
forward to our laundry time
00:24:16.92\00:24:19.45
because we know it's a time
00:24:19.45\00:24:20.56
that we're not gonna
be distracted by anything
00:24:20.56\00:24:22.22
because our hands are
in a bucket of soapy water.
00:24:22.22\00:24:25.63
So, we can just
talk on the phone
00:24:25.63\00:24:27.00
or we can listen to a sermon
or a Bible story or something.
00:24:27.00\00:24:30.20
So, even
something we hated doing,
00:24:30.20\00:24:32.43
God has now turned
that into a blessing for us.
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- It's so amazing how God
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can change our point
of view of something.
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A big question that I have,
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and I'm sure people at
home that are watching,
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they're very interested
to know is Jesus worth it?
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Is being a missionary, is
the struggles of the hardships,
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Is it all going to be worth it?
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- [Elizabeth] Absolutely.
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That's a great question.
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And for me, the answer is
yes, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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Because I know that no matter
what happens in this life,
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no matter what
I do in this life,
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what really matters is eternity,
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so, what am I doing now to
prepare myself for eternity?
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And what am I doing now to help
prepare others for eternity?
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If we know that we
have served him completely,
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then he will take care of us
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and he will
provide all of our needs.
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- This is, you've
really inspired me.
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I really have enjoyed getting
to know about what you do
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and what your life
is like and God bless.
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- Praise God!
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Thank you, God
bless both of you.
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- Thank you.
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- Just watching that
again re-inspires me.
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- Me too.
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- We had so much fun
hanging out with her.
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- Yeah.
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- Like, she's so
energetic and passionate
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about what she does.
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- I think a lot of times,
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people think that
being a Christian means that
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you have to be sad and serious.
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But no, when you're
really surrendered to Jesus
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and living in
him, then it's joyful.
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- It is, and she's a
great example of that.
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- Mm-hmm.
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- I really like
how from a young age,
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she was surrendered
to God about her future.
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- Mm-hmm.
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- And open to his leading.
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- Yeah, and her surrender
really inspires me too.
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And surrender isn't just
like, okay, I'm gonna die now.
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- Yeah.
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- It's more like, I'm
okay if you want me to die.
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- Mm-hmm, exactly.
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- That allows God's plan to work
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and he's much better
at planning than we are.
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- He is.
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An example of that is
how Elizabeth was so prepared
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to just be over there
and living in a mud hut
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with the bare necessities.
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- Mm-hmm.
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- But then, when she got there,
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God had provided
a nice room for her
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that was way better than
she had been preparing for.
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- Yeah, and that
doesn't always happen.
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- Exactly.
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- Like, sometimes you
surrender for bad things
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and the bad things still happen.
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But, it's just when
you allow God to lead
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that we'll be happy.
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- And Elizabeth
didn't have it easy.
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She had obstacles to overcome
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after she felt God
leading her overseas.
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- Mm-hmm.
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- [Lilyann] God
helped her to step out
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of the typical
American life that we live here
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and overcome
people's expectations of you
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as you grow up.
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You know, go to
college, get a job, get married.
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You know, all that
stuff, and just stay here.
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And there's so much
work to do outside of here.
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- Yeah, for sure.
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And we just wanted to remind
you guys not to be held back
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by what other
people think of you
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and not to put
others' expectations
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above what God's
plans for you are.
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- 'Cause his way is
always better in the long run.
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Join us next
week on Mission Trek
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as we travel to
Northern Thailand.
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- And until then, remember
to pray for the unreached.
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