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- [Mary] We've
caught up in the church
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and I've 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.
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- [Lillian] And I'm Lillian.
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We wanted to find out.
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Join us on our journey
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(bhang)
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to discover the
culture, the lifestyle,
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the need, and the mission into
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a Southeast Asia's
least reach countries.
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- [Mary]
Welcome to Mission Trek.
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- Welcome to Mission track.
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- In the last episode,
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we visited a school
on the border of Burma.
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While we were there,
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we were able to go to a
local village with a dentist
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and watch him
help the villagers.
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- Now we will be traveling
to Gail Haberkam's Clinic
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in the mountains where she
ministers to the current people.
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Thankfully, Mary Ann
was feeling a lot better
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and she was able
to travel with us.
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- Gayle's a nurse who lives
in the mountains of Thailand
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at a village that takes
five hours to get to by truck.
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And we had the
privilege of visiting her.
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- So we're on our way
up to Auntie Gayle's place,
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we're gonna be
there for a few days
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and really exciting we're
riding in this truck all of us.
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So really warm outside
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and we get all squished.
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This is Auntie Gayle's truck.
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We were wondering why
such a small sweet lady
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would need such
a big tough truck.
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But we soon found out,
the road to her house is rough
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and steep and it's
much steeper in real life
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than it looks in the video.
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Basically, we are
riding back track,
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we've had a lot of
steep corners and stuff.
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Yeah, for these little things,
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this so dusty.
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It's like you pass these trucks
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and you're like
this far away from haven,
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so that is not good.
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(gentle music)
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These roads are
rough from the dry season.
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But in the rainy season,
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all the dust and dirt
turns into deep, slippery mud.
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When the truck won't make
it, they take a motorbike.
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But even that can
be a lot of hard work.
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(gentle piano music)
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Auntie Gayle and BletJhw,
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tell us about how
the Lord protected them
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during rainy season.
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(gentle piano music)
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They were driving
down this very corner
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when they found that it
was covered in slick mud.
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- [BletJhw] Lilyann doesn't
look very steep in the camera,
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how does it feel in real life?
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- It's like this.
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- [Auntie Gayile] And the
mud had washed all down the road
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as we turn this corner,
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there was no other way
but the truck just slid
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out of control sideways
right towards that precipice.
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- [Lilyann] This is
where they ended up,
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right at the
edge of a steep cliff.
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- Here we go
out of control here.
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Sideways.
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It's all loose right here.
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It was all loose.
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And our back wheel was
just right here on the edge.
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- [Lilyann] Auntie Gayle had
the courage to take pictures,
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even though she was in a
very stressful situation.
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- You can imagine,
once you've lost traction
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and your truck
is out of control,
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how fast you've
come around that corner.
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It's only the Angel of
the Lord that stopped us.
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Because here we go
around and what did you say?
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- Lord, help, help, help.
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- Like Peter,
Lord, help, help help.
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And everybody was
quiet because we thought
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soon we'd be going down
over this way off the cliff.
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And then it just
suddenly stopped right there
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before going over the side.
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Stop for no reason.
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(motorbike engine roaring)
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- Did you feel like if you moved
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it might start
moving again? - Yeah.
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And then we got out of the track
to to survey our situation.
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And you just wanna fall down,
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you can't keep your
shoes on, was so slick.
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You can't even hardly stand up,
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we just struggled in the
rain and the mud everywhere.
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And finally,
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we got out praise the Lord,
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miracle after
miracle on these roads.
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- We continue driving
for another few hours.
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MaryAnne was stuck in the cab
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because she was still
recovering from her bad cold.
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It's amazing to think
how much time on to Gayle
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and BletJhw
spend on these roads.
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She is often taking sick people
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into the
hospital to get treatment.
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Sometimes they
leave in the morning
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and don't get home
until late at night.
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Other times there is a
mudslide or road construction,
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and they have to turn
around halfway to the hospital
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and try different routes.
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As the sun falls
behind the hills,
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we pull into her driveway.
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We're here at Auntie Gayle's
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and it was about
four and a half hour ride
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and back the truck,
very bumpy, very dusty,
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everything got really dusty.
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Anyway, so we're here and it's
really, really nice building.
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We're working on making supper.
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As soon as we got here,
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there's two who
are waiting to be seen
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and then another guy came in
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and there's like a
family out there waiting.
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So he's been gone all day
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so people have
been waiting to see her.
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So she's really busy right now.
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This man had cut
his toe with a machete
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and BletJhw washed the wound
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and then auntie
Gayle put some stitches in.
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This little boy had been rushed
to the hospital last month
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for an appendicitis and
he's come back for a checkup.
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After all the pain he
experienced and his brush with
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death, he's all happy now.
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- I have a good job.
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- Early the next morning,
we piled in the truck again
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and headed out to a village.
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On the way we stopped at
the one place in the whole area
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where she can get
cell phone service.
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And I had some
questions for her.
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What village are
we going to today?
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- Today we're going
to go to the Nyalagory,
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It is a village maybe 35 homes.
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And I call it the
village of children.
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Because there's least 30
children in this village.
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There's a small school
it goes through grade four,
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but the teachers
really don't teach them much
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and sometimes they're in school,
sometimes they're not in,
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so it's kind of free.
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I hope today that
the children are free
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because I dearly
love the children.
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And I want to
help them in their life
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because many of the children,
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their parents pay
no attention to them.
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They grow up going from home
to home trying to find food.
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Their parents are running
around trying to find jobs
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so they can earn some
money so they can buy opium,
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and then they're
so addicted to opiums.
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Many Nyalelogory is
also the village of opium.
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Many of them may mine
that becomes heroin then.
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And then they're incapable
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they can't take
care of their homes,
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they can't take
care of their gardens
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and their children especially.
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And so maybe the grandmother
raises them, there's two twins,
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you'll see today, I hope.
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And the mother, the
grandmother raises them,
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their parents are always gone.
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And sometimes I'll go in there
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and I'll see her
with a big bamboo pipe
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and she put the opium in there
and smoke, they smoke opium.
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So it's really sad.
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- Whether they use
you before you came,
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and then could get really sick?
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- Well, some
people own motorbikes,
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and they can go to
the nearest clinic,
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which is two hours away.
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But many of them are
just at home and died.
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And one lady a long
time ago that we treated
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while we were doing the hot
foot bath and taking care of her
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she was like
amazed and she says,
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"You're doing
something to make me well?
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"I feel better already."
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And she says, "We
just when we get sick,
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"we just stayed home
and we just wait to die.
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"We're just gonna die."
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So that's just what our
lot they kind of call it,
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it's my Lord.
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- Oh wow!
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(gentle music)
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We're on our way now
to a village this morning,
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we're she's gonna
do some medical things
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and have a worship and
stuff with the children
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in the village and Marry
Ann is feeling a lot better
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this morning, she says but,
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she didn't want to push herself.
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She stayed back at the
clinic is gonna have to
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endure another
bumpy ride there and back.
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But it should be good.
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These mountains are
filled with little villages
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that don't have access to
health care or the Gospel.
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Gayle can get to a few.
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But dreams one day of
many clinics and missionaries
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ministering to
villages like this one.
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The house that
we're going to today
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is at the top of the hill.
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I'm a little nervous right now.
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I feel like I'm walking
into a missionary storybook
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with an open fire for
cooking, bamboo walls,
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dirty wood floors, lots of
people and a sick little baby.
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- This baby is just a
little over two months old.
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And at first she was too sick,
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the mother
couldn't to take care of it
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because this is the
lady that's had eight babies.
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And so every time she gets
very deathly sick one time,
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we barely saved her life
and took her to the hospital.
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This time, she was
sick again very badly
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so she couldn't nurse her
baby, we brought her formula.
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And a baby bottle that
was great because this grandma
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had been trying to feed
the baby by chewing the rice
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and spitting it out
and giving it to the baby.
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And that's what
kept it alive at first
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until we got the formula here.
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And then it did really well.
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Now it seems like
she's got some milk
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so but the babies are all sick,
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it's got diarrhea, and
symbolized in the diarrhea,
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a fever, intermittently,
and congestion, runny nose,
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and that kind of stuff.
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So we're going to
take care of the baby,
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here's some medicine.
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Make sure they
have what they need.
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- She begins to visit
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by caring for the
sick and the hurting.
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- He has fever a few days
ago and then the last two days,
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seemed like he
was getting better,
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but just today it
started to have a fever again.
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- She provides this service
and medicine free of charge,
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which shows the people that
she really cares about them,
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that opens their
hearts be willing to listen
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to her talk about God and
share stories from the Bible.
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- We give it Vitamin B12
and the vitamin B complex shots
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to these people,
their back pain is better
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and their knee pain is better.
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Everything seems to go better.
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They really think
the shots are valuable.
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So if we don't have them
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it's really sad.
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And really, it does do a
lot of good because mostly
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their body isn't in
absorbing the vitamins well.
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And so that can cause
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problems, especially if they
get numb or tingling or achy
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and arms or legs, lower legs
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can usually be a
vitamin deficiency.
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We give so many shots, so many.
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- So that's just
a vitamin B12 shots?
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- Ahaa!
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This one is the B12.
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(gentle music)
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- After she gave her shots,
we always break the needle.
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Because a lot of
people sometimes they came
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and they ask for the needle
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because he wants to use for
the opium to put in their veins.
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So we always break the needle.
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- [Man] Can you tell who
in this house is on opium?
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- I'm sure that the
lady that own this house,
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she used opium,
and other people.
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- [Man] The boy sitting in
the doorway with blue is he?
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- I'm not sure about him.
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But most, almost all they
use once a while or many times.
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Some are really
addicted, some are not very.
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Probably safe to say at least
80% of people are using opium.
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(gentle music)
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(foreign language)
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- Is he swollen at all?
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(gentle music)
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- Not really a lot of people
have come but those have come
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she's treated them and
it's just cool to watch her
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check on them and stuff.
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And tonight we're
gonna have worship,
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and a lot of kids have come,
a few kids have come, so yeah.
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(singing in foreign language)
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- Today I wanna
talk about the Bible.
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It's talking about the
man that wrote this book.
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And it says that the
Lord put Words in his mouth.
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(foreign language)
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And do you see Philip here
has something he's reading,
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this is the Bible.
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(foreign language)
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It's here, it's
here. (foreign language)
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He obeyed and make changes
is life to be like Jesus.
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And so I'm going to tell
you, it's so important to pray
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because even more important
than the breath that we can take
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is to pray and talk to God.
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(foreign language)
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It's a great
work that I have here.
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The Lord knows
just where to put you,
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to suit your
personality and your strength
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and your capabilities
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and whatever
capabilities you don't have,
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because you never feel adequate.
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The Lord will
give you what you need.
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And you know, I'm the most
fortunate person in the world
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because I have the
very best job of anybody.
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Because I get to meet
people and help them physically
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and that makes it
reach to their heart
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so I can help them
understand more about God.
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And I get to tell
people about God every day,
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some that never heard before.
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So this is the
biggest joy you can ever have
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this side of heaven.
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(gentle piano music)
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- We're here in Las Utah
for worship this evening.
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And we're at Dupei's house.
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He and his wife
were the first people
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that had been baptized.
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So we're gonna have worship
here and get to meet them
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because we've heard their
story, and so that's cool.
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(foreign language)
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This is Dupei, the story goes
that he was addicted to opium
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so bad that he
tried to kill himself.
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Gayle helped to save his
life and now he and his wife
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are the first ones
to have been baptized
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as a result of
Auntie Gayle's ministry.
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(singing in foreign language)
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- So then Rahab let
those men down on that cord.
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outside the city and
then ran into the jungle.
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(foreign language)
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(singing in foreign language)
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(foreign language)
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- Auntie Gayle is practicing
her language skills with Dupei.
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(foreign language)
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- Well, it's good for me
just to talk and figure out
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if they understand
and try the new words out.
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And I get to
talk to many people.
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Sometimes BletJhw is gone.
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He has to be gone,
and I just stay here.
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And then sometimes many
patient one day 33 patients,
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all by myself.
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And I know as
soon as BletJhw comes,
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the difficult patient comes
where I need a big history.
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And I don't know how to
ask ask that why he's gone,
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every patient I can...
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I know I've done
it right, you know.
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So that's God because you know,
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I'm very slow on this language.
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It's a struggle for
me, I keep on trying
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and don't give up and...
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- Sitting in the back
of the truck for five hours
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was so tiring.
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It was such a bumpy ride
and it was hot and sunny.
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And all of us and our
stuff got all covered with dust.
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It sounds really uncomfortable.
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- Yeah.
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- I had to ride in the
truck because I was sick.
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But you guys look kind
of miserable right there.
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- Yeah.
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- It's hard to imagine
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how much of
Gayle's life is traveling.
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Like, it's good that
she has a truck at least.
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- Yeah.
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- And the hills are so steep.
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- I can't imagine in
rainy season traveling like--
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- Yeah, in rainy season,
she has to go and buy motorbike
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or she has the hiking,
which takes about 12 hours.
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Or sometimes she
can even get in there.
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- Wow.
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- But thankfully, the next day
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I was well enough to go with
you guys to the next village.
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- Yes, that was
such a fun experience,
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been in the village and
seen her help the people
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was so inspiring.
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Like she's dedicated
her whole life to this.
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- Yeah and she's
like the happiest person.
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- I know, she's so
much fun, yes (laughing).
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The second day, after breakfast,
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we headed out in the
truck for a 20 minute drive.
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(gentle piano music)
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This morning, the
air is actually cool.
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So we had to wear sweaters.
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We didn't expect it
to be cold in Thailand,
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but we're pretty
high in the mountains.
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We didn't have to
drive as much as yesterday.
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But even a short
drive is an adventure here.
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Auntie Gayle
doesn't just sit at home,
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waiting for the
people to come to her.
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She goes out looking for them,
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bringing light and
healing into their homes.
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We arrived in the village
and went straight to the house
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where Auntie Gayle always goes.
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It's a very different way
of life than we're used to,
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but the lady of the
house welcomed us with a smile.
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- We're in LA Glah village.
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And Anuntie Gayle or
as they call her, Tharamu,
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comes here every Thursday,
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usually to treat the sick and
have worship with the people.
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So we came with her.
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Like what they did yesterday.
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- [Man] How was the ride?
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- It was so fun!
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It was epic. - Epic.
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(laughing)
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- We stood in the back.
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- We were truck
surfing holding on to the roof.
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- They've been doing it
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like the whole
time they've been riding
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but that was
the first time I got
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to stand in the
back. - It's the best way
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to ride in the back,
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because usually you just bump,
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And so we found out
that if you stand up its
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a lot easier. - Your
knees take all of it.
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- Yeah. - Instead of your back.
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- The first thing we
did was just hang out
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and wait for the
people to show up.
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Life is not in a hurry here
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and people take time to
connect with each other.
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Then Gayle and BletJhw
treat all the people's ailments.
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(foreign language)
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- She wants shots.
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Knee pain, lower
back pain, side pain.
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(foreign language)
00:20:03.03\00:20:06.74
- Gayle takes this opportunity
00:20:06.74\00:20:08.27
to teach my little
sister some nursing techniques.
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- Go slow, we just keep
that cap on kinda sideways
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and drop it down.
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Wow, that's good,
you wanna come with me?
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I'll teach you how to
give it but I'll give it.
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- [Lilyann]
After that is finished,
00:20:21.98\00:20:23.32
she begins
telling a Bible story.
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- Because he loved
every person so very much,
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he gave everything to the people
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that would help
be well and be happy.
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- After a few
hours, we headed home.
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We were sad to leave,
00:20:37.53\00:20:38.97
but we still had a few
questions to ask Auntie Gayle.
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(gentle piano music)
00:20:44.31\00:20:47.38
We're here to talk with
Auntie Gayle and BletJhw.
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And we're just curious
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about what life is
like for them here.
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- How did you guys come
to work here and BeYoTa?
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- It's a long story.
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First of all, my
boys and I came here
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to be missionaries at the border
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for three months.
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And so when that
three months was up,
00:21:07.30\00:21:09.50
we'd fallen in love
with the Korean people,
00:21:09.50\00:21:11.57
my boys and I want to stay.
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So we stayed at that school
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and didn't go back to
America for 10 months.
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And at the end of 10 months,
00:21:17.51\00:21:18.74
there was so many
missionaries at that school,
00:21:18.74\00:21:21.68
we felt like God wanted
us to go somewhere else,
00:21:21.68\00:21:24.38
where there people
really needed to find the Lord.
00:21:24.38\00:21:28.65
And so we prayed a lot about it.
00:21:28.65\00:21:31.25
And actually BletJhw and my
son found this village for us,
00:21:31.25\00:21:36.32
and come back and thought
it was really great place.
00:21:37.73\00:21:40.03
And we really prayed about it.
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I came too and
but we didn't know
00:21:41.53\00:21:44.87
that then three things
happen, as we were praying
00:21:44.87\00:21:48.37
that showed is clearly
God want us to come here.
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And that is one thing is,
00:21:52.24\00:21:54.94
somebody donated us
enough money to buy track.
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And when we found the four
wheel track, simply in one day,
00:21:57.95\00:22:01.92
actually in two hours,
00:22:01.92\00:22:03.79
people sometimes take
months, they can't find one,
00:22:03.79\00:22:06.09
and it was the exact
money that we've been donated.
00:22:06.09\00:22:08.72
- Oh, wow!
00:22:08.72\00:22:09.82
- So all this is the
hand of God, you know.
00:22:09.82\00:22:12.39
And then the next thing also,
00:22:12.39\00:22:15.06
we found out that there is
50 villages around the BiYoTa,
00:22:15.06\00:22:19.17
and many of them never
even heard the name of Jesus.
00:22:19.17\00:22:22.90
And so then we
really wanted to come.
00:22:22.90\00:22:26.17
And then the best thing,
00:22:26.17\00:22:27.44
(laughing) the
third thing that happened,
00:22:31.95\00:22:34.12
that showed us
it was God's will,
00:22:34.12\00:22:35.52
is he felt God calling
him to come and work with us.
00:22:35.52\00:22:38.12
So we really needed him,
00:22:38.12\00:22:40.32
to help us with the culture
and of course in talking,
00:22:40.32\00:22:43.76
and so many
things, so many things.
00:22:43.76\00:22:46.23
So it's really
important to know,
00:22:46.23\00:22:49.76
it's God's way of
whatever you're doing,
00:22:49.76\00:22:51.90
you really must know, and must
plead with God and find out.
00:22:51.90\00:22:55.07
Because otherwise, when
trials come which they came,
00:22:55.07\00:22:57.91
so many better
things and agony of things,
00:22:57.91\00:23:01.88
then you can go
through that holding God's hand
00:23:01.88\00:23:04.45
because you know,
he called you to do it.
00:23:04.45\00:23:06.28
So otherwise you
would give up and go home.
00:23:06.28\00:23:08.98
- You've told us
about some of the struggles,
00:23:10.12\00:23:12.05
and some of the hard
things that you've gone through.
00:23:12.05\00:23:15.22
Why do you stay here?
00:23:15.22\00:23:16.96
- Well, what makes us
to stay is the great need.
00:23:16.96\00:23:20.80
Because we see these people,
00:23:20.80\00:23:22.26
they are so steeped in
tradition, and superstition and
00:23:22.26\00:23:27.24
fear and there's
really hard to teach,
00:23:28.30\00:23:30.11
they're very slow to learn.
00:23:30.11\00:23:31.44
In six years, we
had baptized two people.
00:23:31.44\00:23:34.64
And a few people
are now you know...
00:23:34.64\00:23:37.88
many people know about
God they didn't know before.
00:23:37.88\00:23:40.48
And so you never know, we
pray with a lot of the patients,
00:23:40.48\00:23:43.18
most of the patients
and so they know about God.
00:23:43.18\00:23:46.42
But the great need
here, is what keeps us here.
00:23:46.42\00:23:50.03
Because we wanna see
as many people in heaven
00:23:50.03\00:23:54.50
as it is
possible for us to reach
00:23:54.50\00:23:56.77
and that God has
planned for us to reach.
00:23:56.77\00:23:59.33
- What advice
you guys give to us
00:23:59.33\00:24:02.60
people that may be interested
00:24:02.60\00:24:03.94
in becoming
missionaries one day?
00:24:03.94\00:24:05.81
- It will change
your life forever.
00:24:05.81\00:24:08.41
And if you don't resist it,
and then you turn away again,
00:24:08.41\00:24:12.11
to the world, it can grow
stronger and stronger in you.
00:24:12.11\00:24:15.62
And I would advise, don't get
hung up on so much schooling.
00:24:15.62\00:24:20.42
So many people say that,
00:24:20.42\00:24:22.82
"Oh, I can do this
after I get this degree.
00:24:22.82\00:24:25.03
"And then I think I
need my BS degree in nursing,
00:24:25.03\00:24:27.56
"in case I come back to America,
00:24:27.56\00:24:28.63
"then I'm gonna
need to get a job
00:24:28.63\00:24:31.07
"and I can earn
my money that way."
00:24:31.07\00:24:33.20
And then they think, "Oh,
then I need something, you know,
00:24:33.20\00:24:35.94
"for medicine to
learn and this and that."
00:24:35.94\00:24:38.51
And so they don't come.
00:24:38.51\00:24:40.88
And they never come
00:24:40.88\00:24:41.98
because then they
never think they know enough
00:24:41.98\00:24:44.31
and the years slip by,
and we are in the end times.
00:24:44.31\00:24:47.85
And Jesus is coming soon
and I feel such an urgency
00:24:47.85\00:24:51.82
to spread the Word
of God in these areas,
00:24:51.82\00:24:54.62
that there's a
mountain up the mountain,
00:24:54.62\00:24:56.36
a village after
village and nobody knows.
00:24:56.36\00:24:59.26
You know, you can put
your finger on any mountain
00:24:59.26\00:25:01.30
and the people don't know.
00:25:01.30\00:25:02.93
And it's a real
urgency and I Mrs. White says,
00:25:02.93\00:25:06.20
"The time is short."
00:25:06.20\00:25:07.74
And so many people get
caught up with so many things
00:25:07.74\00:25:11.24
that while people are perishing,
00:25:11.24\00:25:13.61
for one of light and knowledge.
00:25:13.61\00:25:16.01
And so I think
if the people sense,
00:25:16.01\00:25:19.71
the urgency that there
is and that we were created
00:25:19.71\00:25:23.42
to help and work for
others, wherever God puts us.
00:25:23.42\00:25:26.89
They might be in a foreign
field where it's hard to work,
00:25:26.89\00:25:29.19
it might be in the
city, it might be anywhere
00:25:29.19\00:25:31.09
but we were made to work
for God and we are not happy,
00:25:31.09\00:25:35.00
a bit happy unless we
are you working for God,
00:25:35.00\00:25:38.73
that that's our first
priority is God and his work,
00:25:38.73\00:25:42.34
and everything
else comes under that.
00:25:42.34\00:25:44.67
And then there's such
joy and if you see somebody
00:25:44.67\00:25:49.18
that you kept the devil
strings off, or you save a life,
00:25:49.18\00:25:53.21
or you give Bible
studies in different villages
00:25:53.21\00:25:56.22
and you see the
people trying to pray
00:25:56.22\00:25:58.22
or they come to the clinic
00:25:58.22\00:25:59.69
and they ask you
to pray for them,
00:25:59.69\00:26:01.99
you are so happy you never could
understand that kind of joy
00:26:01.99\00:26:07.03
unless you got
involved and did it.
00:26:09.10\00:26:11.40
But it means sacrifice,
00:26:11.40\00:26:12.80
you have to be
willing to give up everything.
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It's take all my time, take
all my money, take all my family
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and you'll cry, things get hard
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but it's really the only way
we're gonna save our own selves
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but all the ones around us.
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- Well thank you so
much for sharing being here
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and watching you
guys go into the villages.
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It's really inspired us
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and we really enjoyed
our time here with you guys.
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- We have enjoyed too.
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(gentle music)
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- Auntie Gayle is so cool.
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- Yeah, and she
has such a big heart
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and she cares so
much for these people.
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- And in return for service,
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they open up to
her and trust her,
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which allows her to be
able to share the Gospel.
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- Yeah, a lot of times
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when someone goes to share
the Gospel with someone else,
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they get so eager
about sharing the message
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that they forget to give
the person's physical needs.
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If someone was starving,
you can't just go up to them
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and offer to pray for them.
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First you need to give them food
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and then they will be more open
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to letting you pray with
them and hearing the Gospel.
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Ellen Might in her book
"The Ministry of Healing" says,
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"Christ method alone
will give true success
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"in reaching the people.
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"The Savior mingled with men
as one who desired their good.
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"He showed his sympathy for
them, minister to their needs
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"and won their confidence,
then He bade them follow me."
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- This is something
important for us to remember
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as we set out to bring
the Good News to the world.
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- We'll see you next
time on Mission Trek.
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And remember to
pray for the unreached.
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(soft music).
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