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- [Mary Ann] We've
grown up in the church,
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an 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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We wanted to find out.
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Join us on our
journey, (gong tolling)
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to discover the
culture, the lifestyle--
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- [Mary Ann] The
need, and the mission.
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- In two of Southeast Asia's
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least reached countries.
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Welcome to MissionTREK.
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Welcome back to MissionTREK.
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We're so excited that
you could join us again.
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- Last week, we left Bangkok
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and traveled
north up to Chiang Mai,
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where we met the JFA media team.
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This week, we're gonna
travel even further north,
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to Chiang Rai,
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which is near the
boarder of Myanmar,
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which used to be known as Burma.
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- We are going to see a very
popular tourist destination,
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(speaking in foreign language),
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which means the White Temple.
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It's a very beautiful place.
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- And even though it's meant
to be a tourist attraction,
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it gives us a lot of insights
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into how the people
over there see life.
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They have a worldview that
is very different from ours.
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- We looked at pictures
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trying to decide whether
we should come here or not,
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and we're like, "Oh, that
looks really, really pretty
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"and really cool, we should go."
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When we got here, we're like,
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"Oh wow, the pictures, they
didn't do it justice at all."
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- This temple was
actually made by an artist,
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not like, a priest or anything,
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it was an artist who,
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this is their interpretation
of heaven and hell.
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It's got white and then,
like, silver outlines and stuff.
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- You can notice on the sidewalk
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there looks like imprints
of flames, and there's hands.
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Kinda creepy, but this
part is the hell I guess.
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The temple is heaven, so.
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On the way here we kinda
had like a season of prayer
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and sang songs and--
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- Claimed promises,
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because this is a
place of devil worship.
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We just wanna make
sure that we're protected.
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This place is
really, actually incredible.
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It's kinda of
like a work of art.
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- [Lilyann] It's easy to
sense that there is strong,
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satanic influence in this place.
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You can almost feel the
fear and supposed sacredness
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that the people
have for this temple.
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This building is
actually the bathrooms.
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They are painted gold
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because the artist
wanted to demonstrate
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that the treasures of
this world won't last.
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What we think is
highly valuable really isn't.
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There were these good
luck charms that were for sale.
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People were buying them to
help ward off the evil spirits.
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It's so sad,
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because they have no idea
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that those
meaningless pieces of metal
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can do nothing to
help protect them.
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- They have a whole
different world view than we do,
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because they are
probably constantly in fear
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of offending the
spirits and all this stuff,
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like, on and on and on.
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And if they get sick,
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then it's because they
didn't do something right,
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or all this stuff.
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So they're like,
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constantly have to try
to work hard to be good.
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- I think the gospel
would be valuable here,
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but I think it would be a
big challenge to teach them.
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- So we're not
allowed to take any pictures
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or film in there,,
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I guess because it's
sacred and they don't...
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I'm not really sure.
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Anyway, we're not supposed to.
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(ominous music)
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- We just came out
of the White Temple,
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and inside there was a
Buddha that was all gold.
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And there was-- - A monk,
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sitting in front of it it.
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Like, I swear he was not
real, but apparently he was.
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- We didn't even see him
breathe, he didn't blink.
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But he was definitely real.
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And it was kinda creepy.
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Like there were
paintings all over the walls.
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- This big mural.
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- [James] What did
you see in the paintings.
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It was kind of strange.
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Like, we said, it was
like an artist interpretation.
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But it was-- - A city skyline.
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And then, like-- -
there was the devil.
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And then there was Superman.
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- And minions.
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- Like, a whole bunch of
different, weird action figures.
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- We leave with
questions in our mind.
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It was interesting.
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- It was
definitely an experience.
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(upbeat music)
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- That was so intense.
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- Yeah, the most shocking part
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was all the
people writhing in hell
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with guards to protect
the entrance to heaven.
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- Yeah, and it seemed like
it was up the the individual
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to work their
way to get to heaven;
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there was no savior
reaching out to help.
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- Ellen White says
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that the difference between
true religion and false religion
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is that false
religion is based on the idea
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that you can work your
way to heaven by yourself,
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whereas we believe that
salvation is a free gift
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that's offered to everybody.
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- It's really difficult
to claim this free gift,
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because it means that we
have to put away our pride.
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But so many people
have never even heard
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that this free
gift is even out there.
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The real beauty of
the character of Christ
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is seen in the
life of the believer.
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And that's why it's so important
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for believers to go
live among unbelievers;
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so that they can see Jesus.
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- But back to the story,
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our next goal was to
visit the Sharon family.
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- They live west of Chiang Mai,
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and are a family that is
reaching out to the local
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villages with
health and healing.
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- Yeah, but to get there,
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James, our producer, wanted
to explore a different way,
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which was fine with us
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'cause we were all
really tired of buses.
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- Yeah!
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We bought a
couple of used motorbikes
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to do the Mae Hong Son Loop.
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We found out later that it
should have taken us three days,
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but since we
wanted to see Mr. Leroy
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teaching in one
of the refugee camps,
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we had to do the whole
270 mile loop in two days.
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- Yeah, that was pretty crazy,
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and the roads were really windy.
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- They were (chuckling).
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So the first day,
we made it to Pai,
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which was about 80
miles into the trip,
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and we spent the night in
some really cool bamboo houses.
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- Yeah that was pretty awesome!
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- It was.
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- The next day,
though, was really hard,
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because we had to travel
210 miles in just over 12 hours.
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We finally got to
the Sharon's house;
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it was really late at
night and we were so tired.
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- We're about to head out
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on the Mae Hong Son Loop.
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We've just kinda
gotten out of Chaing Mai.
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And so we're gonna stop
and get something to eat,
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and then we're
gonna be on our way.
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(peaceful music)
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- [Mary Ann] We stopped at
this cute little ride-side shop.
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- The food is really good.
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I think we picked
the right place to stop.
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(engines revving)
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- And now we're
about to head out,
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we're gonna, it's about
2.5 hours to our destination.
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It's a city called Pai.
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So we're gonna
spend the night there.
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But we have to get there first.
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- It's supposed to be really
curvy between here and there,
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so we're gonna
see how this goes.
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(upbeat music)
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The northern part of Thailand
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is mostly
untouched by the gospel.
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As far as we know,
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we did not pass any
missionaries on the whole loop.
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It's going good so far.
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Like, the corners are
getting a lot sharper,
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so we've had some 180s,
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so more what we were expecting.
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- So we just came
around this corner,
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- And there's like,
this huge black snake
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that was across one whole lane.
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And when we went past it,
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it's head went up,
and it was a cobra.
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- And we went past it,
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and it was like, maybe
this far from our legs.
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And we're not
wearing long pants, so yeah.
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It was a little bit freaky,
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'cause this huge
snake, like, I don't know,
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maybe five feet.
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- I'm frustrated
at the truck driver.
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This truck driver stopped,
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and waited for the
snake to get out of the way
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before it went on.
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- She just wants the
truck driver to have killed it.
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- So now I've
seen a cobra in life.
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- Very close, very
close. - Really close.
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(upbeat music)
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- We got to Pai,
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took us about a half
hour to find a place to say,
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like, everything was full.
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It's this cute
little place with bungalows.
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So we're about to go to bed.
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- Looking
forward to sleeping well,
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we have a lot of
running tomorrow.
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(birds chirping)
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So we had breakfast this morning
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and then we hit the road.
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- And we're heading all the way
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to (speaking in
foreign language),
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which is like 200 miles.
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So we're gonna be
pretty sore by the end of it.
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- As we ride today,
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we'll be going
through lots of mountains,
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and there'll be
lots of hill tribes
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that we go
through their territory.
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- There's the
(speaking in foreign language).
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But it's really pretty.
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There's awesome
views, lots of mountains.
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- Just gotta keep riding.
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(peaceful music)
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- So, we're
driving and we saw a sign
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that said Lisu Lodge.
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So this is
actually a Lisu village.
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- I've never seen a
Lisu village before,
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so this is cool how
the village is built
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just on the
side of the mountain.
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The villages I've been
in are more in the valley,
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so this is cool.
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- See right here?
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This is my shift lever.
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And it's supposed to
go on right down there.
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- It's stuck in first.
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We're trying to
decide what to do,
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because the closest
town on the map is, like,
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44 kilometers away.
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Thankfully a Native came and
stopped and ask what was wrong,
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and so he was like, "Follow me."
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And he ran a school,
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and he's helping
get the bike fixed.
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(triumphant music)
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That was so much fun!
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- It really was.
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At the end, though,
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it started to get a
little more challenging.
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We had to travel the
last few hours after dark,
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and the road was
steep and it was cold.
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And then my dad's
shift lever broke again!
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- Yeah, but this time
it was in second gear,
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which made it really hard
to get up the last few hills.
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You guys even
had to use your legs
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to try and make it to the top.
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- Yeah, that was
really challenging!
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- But thankfully, even
though we had some issues
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along the way,
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it still didn't slow
us down very long overall.
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- It was a miracle,
really. - It was, it was.
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- So we ended up
arriving at the Sharon's house
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around 10 o'clock at night,
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and we had to get up
at five the next morning
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and ride three more hours
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to see Mr. Sharon at
the Mae Ra Mu Refugee Camp.
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- That was crazy!
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It was so hard to get up and
go ride again the next morning.
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But when you're
in the mission field
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you have to be willing to do
things for the gospel's sake.
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- But we did get to
hear an amazing story
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about how God's
truth can reach lives.
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(peaceful music)
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- [Lilyann] The Sharon
family moved the Thailand
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nine years ago,
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and they have done
ministry in many different ways,
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including teaching English,
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training local missionaries,
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and taking care
of unwanted children.
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A few years ago,
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when they had to
close their school and move,
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because of new laws,
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they were praying
about where to go,
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and there was a village
that wanted them to come
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and teach English
and the Bible too.
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A couple years ago,
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Lisa told the
story of the property
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and how they built their house.
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- When we moved here,
they offered us this land.
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But we didn't know
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that people had been
killed on this place,
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and so it was cursed.
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And so anybody who
stayed here should have died.
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And so simply living here
is a witness to the village,
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and everybody in every
village in this whole area
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knows about it (laughing).
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Here we are, we're still alive!
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The only stipulation was,
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is the government said
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that we had to
build permanent buildings.
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They didn't want
bamboo buildings anymore.
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We had to move 20
dump truck loads of dirt
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out of the mountain
in order to get started,
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and we did this all by hand
with just a hoe and our backs,
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and little tiny buckets.
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So that took us a
while (chuckling).
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It was really cool,
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because when we
first started digging,
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we had nothing
in the bank account
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for this project; nothing.
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And as we dug,
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I mean, we didn't get
money while we were digging,
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but as soon as it was
time to pour the foundation,
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money came in
for the foundation.
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And as soon as we
needed to start the walls,
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money came in for the walls.
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And so each step of the way,
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we've gotten just exactly
what we needed to keep going.
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(peaceful music)
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- Knock on the door.
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- We're in the Mae
Ra Mu refugee camp.
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And we finally got to Mr.
Sharon where he's teaching.
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He has a classroom,
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and so you can hear
them in the background.
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So he's currently teaching
a class by using the Bible
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to teach them English.
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So we're here
just to learn about,
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kinda more about what he does
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and what life is
like in a refugee camp.
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- [Leroy] As though
they had been waiting
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ages and ages.
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What is ages?
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Long, long time.
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Ages and ages.
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- We're still at
the refugee camp.
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We just talked to the
principal of the school here.
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It's actually a junior college.
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And he told us a
little bit about the camp.
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It was founded in 1985.
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They can't
actually leave the camp,
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because they're
refugees from Burma.
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- It's really hard for
them to get any education.
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They aren't really allowed
to work outside of the camp,
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so they don't
have any money really.
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- It's really good that
they have a school here.
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(hopeful music)
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- As we watched Mr.
Sharon teach English,
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we were impressed by his
enthusiasm and commitment.
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He uses Uncle
Arthur's "My Bible Friends"
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to teach English,
along with Bible stories.
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We could tell he loves sharing
the truth in this simple way,
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so we asked him to
tell us about his experience
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while teaching
in the refugee camp.
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- I laid down right here
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about maybe 45 minutes
during the day to rest.
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Other work, all the
other time I'm speaking,
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or I'm walking
and greeting people,
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or I'm in their house,
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I'm eating with them,
I'm all the rest of the time.
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When I'm standing
in front of the class,
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talking,
half-preaching, but talking,
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that is sowing seeds.
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Teaching the children, the
students, to learn on their own.
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I'm teaching them
they can read on their own,
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they can
understand on their own.
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Just across from here I sat
in the Baptist worship service.
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I didn't say anything, I
can't understand anything.
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But they like it
that I'm there, right?
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I'm a foreigner, I'm
kind of an attraction.
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But after the worship service,
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the head elder who
was in charge of it,
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he wants to talk about
religion, theology with me.
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Well how can we do that, right?
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But there's one girl
that can speak English.
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She's a Baptist.
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She can speak to me.
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So I said, "Okay, if
you wanna talk religion."
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So he begins to
talk about the Sabbath.
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Well, you know, I didn't
really want to start with that,
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but he wanted to talk about it.
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So I begin to
share about the Sabbath.
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I have to speak to her.
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She speaks to him.
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He then speaks to her.
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She speaks to me, right?
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So it's going back and forth.
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And she's
listening to him, "Really?"
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So she tells me,
she listens to me.
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"Really, I never knew that!"
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So then she
tells him (laughing).
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So this girl is able
to hear both sides of it,
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and she's the one
relaying the message.
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And I know she's
relaying it correctly.
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And then, you know,
all the excuses are coming.
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So I'm thinking, you know,
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this is gonna go nowhere,
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because I can't
speak their language.
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So God prompted me,
ask them who is your God.
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Who is your God?
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So I told the girl, I said,
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"Ask the head
elder, 'Who is your God?'"
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So she asked him.
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He goes hmm.
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Thinking about that.
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And I said, "Well?
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"If God is your
God, believe the Bible.
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"Believe what the Bible says.
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"But if you are God, you decide,
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"you decide what you believe.
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"If your church
is God, follow them.
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"If I am God, follow me.
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"But don't
follow me, I'm not God."
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That man got it.
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He's thinking about that.
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He then begins to
talk to about 20 people,
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maybe as many as
30 people in the room
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that had been listening.
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He begins to
talk to them in Karen,
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I don't know what he's saying.
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The little girl,
her eyes got really big.
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She goes, "He's
saying that you're right.
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"He's telling the people
everything that you just told
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us." You don't get
pictures of stuff like that.
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That is what God is doing.
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Doesn't happen very
often, not very often.
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Once in a while.
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And if you bring the camera,
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it usually spoils it, yeah.
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But I was amazed.
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He talked for a while.
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I can't say nothing
00:21:00.92\00:21:01.99
'cause I don't know
what he's talking about.
00:21:01.99\00:21:04.96
Then everybody stopped talking,
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and we began to eat and
talk about normal things, right?
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God planted lots of seeds
that I could not have planted.
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- That story was so moving.
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- Yeah, Mr. Sharon is so on fire
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about the work
that God is doing there.
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He says there are
so many opportunities
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to share the
three angel's message
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that he can't fill them all,
00:21:31.25\00:21:32.52
so he's praying for
more volunteers to come
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and reach the other villagers
in refugee camps up there.
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- Yeah, so while we
were at the refugee camp,
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back at the Sharon's house
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a group of local villagers came,
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and one lady had been having
seizures and fainting spells.
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She'd even been to the
hospital without any relief.
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- Years ago, in
1993, I went to Russia,
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and it changed my life.
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But you know,
there was tons of people
00:21:59.71\00:22:01.92
that went over there
at the same time I did,
00:22:01.92\00:22:03.39
and it doesn't change everybody,
00:22:03.39\00:22:05.42
but if you really
want something better,
00:22:05.42\00:22:10.49
and you're asking
God to change you,
00:22:11.63\00:22:15.43
a short-term mission
trip can change your life.
00:22:15.43\00:22:18.53
(peaceful music)
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- [Mary Ann] Villagers
often come to the Sharon's house
00:22:26.91\00:22:28.91
seeking medical care,
00:22:28.91\00:22:30.25
even though Mrs.
Sharon is only an EMT
00:22:30.25\00:22:32.51
and has limited resources.
00:22:32.51\00:22:34.28
- I'm not a doctor, I don't
know what to do (laughing)!
00:22:38.32\00:22:42.52
I mean, I can
just pray about it,
00:22:42.52\00:22:44.26
praying, and
ideas come to my mind,
00:22:44.26\00:22:46.03
but when it's that serious,
00:22:46.03\00:22:50.53
it's like,
she's having seizures,
00:22:50.53\00:22:52.73
she can't walk half the time.
00:22:53.77\00:22:55.17
Said the
hospitals can't help her.
00:22:56.37\00:22:58.47
They give her
barbiturates, but (sighing).
00:22:58.47\00:23:00.48
I just wish I could help 'em.
00:23:03.81\00:23:05.38
I'm sorry.
00:23:08.02\00:23:08.92
She definitely has
a circulation problem,
00:23:16.76\00:23:18.63
she's extremely anemic,
she's bleeding internally.
00:23:18.63\00:23:21.90
And so the only
thing I can think of doing
00:23:25.30\00:23:26.97
is I gave her a tea to
stop the bleeding internally,
00:23:26.97\00:23:30.24
and I'm giving her whole
grain rice so that hopefully
00:23:30.24\00:23:34.11
it'll get her bowels
moving more regularly,
00:23:34.11\00:23:36.88
'cause she's
really constipated also.
00:23:36.88\00:23:39.41
And lots of tea and
lots of water and vitamins
00:23:40.52\00:23:45.02
to help with the anemia.
00:23:45.02\00:23:46.49
But unless I can
stop the bleeding
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I don't think you
can stop the anemia.
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I don't know enough
to know what I'm doing,
00:23:51.59\00:23:54.13
but I, this is
what came to my mind.
00:23:54.13\00:23:58.13
And I know God gives me ideas.
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- [James] So do you get
groups like this very often?
00:24:02.57\00:24:06.17
- Yeah.
00:24:07.34\00:24:08.24
Or whenever I go to the village.
00:24:09.58\00:24:11.25
Usually people start gathering,
00:24:12.05\00:24:14.28
and it's all so big.
00:24:15.65\00:24:17.89
It's like, things that
I don't know how to do.
00:24:17.89\00:24:21.39
I'm just an EMT,
00:24:21.39\00:24:22.86
I'm supposed to take
'em to a hospital, you know?
00:24:22.86\00:24:24.89
I'm not supposed
to have to treat them.
00:24:24.89\00:24:27.03
But God has given
me a lot of resources.
00:24:27.03\00:24:30.77
I have natural remedies books.
00:24:30.77\00:24:33.34
So I go to those whenever I can.
00:24:35.00\00:24:37.77
But like this, I'm
gonna have to study
00:24:37.77\00:24:40.68
and try to figure
out all these things
00:24:40.68\00:24:42.24
before I go back and
see if there's anything else
00:24:42.24\00:24:46.25
I can be doing.
00:24:46.25\00:24:47.15
You know, when they're
just villagers, it's easier,
00:24:54.06\00:24:58.96
because then you don't
really think of them personally.
00:24:58.96\00:25:01.76
But I asked God to give
me love for them and I do,
00:25:03.23\00:25:07.80
I just, I love them so much
00:25:07.80\00:25:09.47
and I don't want them to
be hurting, with no help.
00:25:09.47\00:25:14.01
I mean, if I'm the best
they have, that's pretty bad.
00:25:15.44\00:25:17.88
But anyway.
00:25:20.75\00:25:21.88
I'm thankful
that I have what I do,
00:25:25.19\00:25:26.99
I'm not unthankful.
00:25:29.19\00:25:30.29
It's just that I
wish I knew more.
00:25:30.29\00:25:32.19
- [James] Would
a nurse be helpful?
00:25:34.36\00:25:35.23
- A nurse would be
awesome (laughing).
00:25:36.83\00:25:38.80
The handwoman has
been begging for a nurse,
00:25:40.60\00:25:43.20
so I've been asking people,
but it always falls though, so.
00:25:43.20\00:25:46.21
The only thing is, it's
gotta be a special nurse.
00:25:48.31\00:25:50.88
If it's just somebody
who's gonna give 'em drugs,
00:25:52.65\00:25:55.38
that's not gonna help 'em.
00:25:55.38\00:25:56.69
I want them to
be able to get well,
00:25:56.69\00:25:58.79
and to know what they're doing,
00:25:58.79\00:26:00.79
and their lifestyle
that's causing them problems.
00:26:00.79\00:26:03.69
And so I try to not give
'em any drugs unless I have to.
00:26:03.69\00:26:07.50
Usually I just
use herbs and things,
00:26:08.90\00:26:12.10
or especially stuff
that they can do themselves.
00:26:12.10\00:26:15.30
I wish I had the gift of tongues
00:26:19.31\00:26:20.71
so I could speak to them myself.
00:26:20.71\00:26:22.58
The translation thing
00:26:22.58\00:26:23.68
was just almost
impossible to deal with.
00:26:24.68\00:26:26.72
I mean, I don't know for sure
00:26:26.72\00:26:28.35
that she's even
hearing what I'm saying.
00:26:28.35\00:26:31.32
So that's why young
people are important.
00:26:31.32\00:26:34.86
Because us old folks (laughing),
00:26:34.86\00:26:36.52
we can't learn
languages very easily,
00:26:37.53\00:26:40.76
but young people can.
00:26:40.76\00:26:42.13
So I'm praying for young people
00:26:43.90\00:26:46.50
who are really,
really dedicated.
00:26:46.50\00:26:49.17
(peaceful music)
00:26:50.91\00:26:53.74
- It's really inspiring
what God is doing there.
00:27:12.36\00:27:15.10
Mrs. Sharon had prayed for God
00:27:15.10\00:27:16.97
to give her a
love for the people,
00:27:16.97\00:27:18.70
and he's answering that.
00:27:18.70\00:27:20.04
- Yeah, and we each
should pray to have that love
00:27:20.04\00:27:22.47
for the unreached
put in our hearts,
00:27:22.47\00:27:24.31
so that we are willing to
work for him in the future.
00:27:24.31\00:27:26.98
- Yeah, but no
matter where you are,
00:27:26.98\00:27:29.28
you can do something.
00:27:29.28\00:27:30.58
For example, last
Christmas we had the opportunity
00:27:30.58\00:27:33.35
to go make gift
boxes and hand them out
00:27:33.35\00:27:36.25
to the refugee
children in our local area.
00:27:36.25\00:27:38.79
There's plenty
for everybody to do.
00:27:38.79\00:27:40.72
But the point is that each
of us can be the hands and feet
00:27:40.72\00:27:43.66
of Jesus no matter where we are.
00:27:43.66\00:27:45.36
- See you next
time on MissionTREK.
00:27:45.36\00:27:47.56
- And please remember
to pray for the unreached.
00:27:47.56\00:27:50.63
(peaceful music)
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