Mexico Recap — 2 Thessalonians 3

0:00 Pennsylvania. Where? They're over there somewhere. Okay. Are we ready to start then?

0:09 Yes? Alright. Very good. Let's start with a word of prayer. Father, thank you so much for this another day.

0:17 Thank you that we could open your word and and even be together as believers and talk about the things that you are doing throughout the world. We commit this evening to you. Pray that you'll be glorified by it. In Christ's name, amen. Amen.

0:32 Alright. I'm just going to read a verse and after that, we'll start talking about the the Mexico mission trip and it's from second Thessalonians chapter three and verse one, two, and three. Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the lord may spread rapidly and be glorified just as it did also with you and that we may be delivered from the from perverse and evil men for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. Right?

1:08 So there's there's your verse. Pray that the the word of the lord would spread rapidly. Very good. So, I'm going to just give a couple of reasons why we I go to the the same place every year and show you a couple of pictures. Then after that, Jeremy is going to come up and he's going to share some of his experience as we went.

1:33 Okay, so first of all, the work in Mexico is an assembly work. It's it's part of our assemblies. And so the the main assembly in the in the city, which we call in the valley, is is quite large and they're the ones that send the workers out into the mountains and support the workers and and follow-up with them. And so the work is so vast that you can go every year and and just come alongside them and work with them and there's always work to do. As a matter of fact, if anybody wants to form a construction team, you're gonna go build, they have a couple of buildings that they're working on now, including at the camp that they have there.

2:17 They're building a chapel building for 500 people. Beautiful big building. So, we can do that if you feel like going and and doing our construction. Mission team, we could even do that. Okay.

2:32 So, I'm just gonna show you a bunch of pictures, give you some explanation, then Jeremy's gonna come up. Alright. So the... If you look way at the bottom, there's 85 steps and it's in a like an 80 degree angle. So it's straight up and down.

2:45 I don't know if you can tell, but I get at the picture. So this was pretty common. Every day, we're walking straight up and straight down. There weren't always steps. Many times it was dirt paths.

2:55 Alright. Next picture. Alright. That is coffee beans. And they're all over the place over there just in case you were wondering what that is right there.

3:06 So it's coffee beans. Very good. Next. And this is one of the rooms. This is Betty Martin.

3:13 Anybody know Betty Martin? Alright. So from Erie, PA and she's involved a lot at the camp at Lilo Lilo Light Camp. So we were doing a children's outreach and a a Catholic family let us borrow their house to do it. And so she's kinda like, we're preaching the gospel and it's full of idols inside, but still we're there preaching the gospel to children just to show you the the the strange dynamics of the place.

3:38 Alright. Next. Alright. This... Alright.

4:12 Right? So when she comes out, I look at Lynette who was with me and the other two, Dave Martin and another brother named Vinodji, he's a missionary to Malawi. They were with us. And so we looked at each other and we said, well, what do we do? And so I said to Lynette, she's about 24 years old.

4:30 I said, look, the Lord brought us here. We're gonna share with her the gospel just with our hands and somehow the Holy Spirit's going to reveal to her her need of of a savior and so we started to do that. We just were like, you know, god and just picture us trying to make it up, right? So, god came down and he loved us. So we're just doing like that.

4:55 And believe it or not, within twenty minutes, this girl had turned to the Lord for salvation. The the rest of us were out there. We're like, I I had never seen anything like it in my life. We were all like just blown away. Lanette was like, wow.

5:12 Did she just believe? And we're like, I think so. And so we said, okay, why don't we why don't we do this? Why don't we get a piece of paper and you're gonna draw out the gospel again, you know, god and the whole thing. So she sat with her for another thirty minutes and drew out the gospel, since you can't talk with her and she can't hear you or speak.

5:33 And at the... After the whole thing was explained, we said, and she she did this number. I understand it. And with her eyes and with her smile, realized that she, at that moment, by faith believed in the Lord. We were like, all of us were like, we were trying to deny it and how can this be true?

5:54 But everyone of us left out of there convinced that that girl had turned to the lord for salvation. I was ready to come home after that. That was the first night and it was just something that I'll never forget to to see her her face when she came to the lord. Okay, next picture. Alright, this is the camp where we stayed and you cook over there with fire, regular wooden fire.

6:20 That's how they cook their food. This is a couple that cooks and and helps out with the camp. I just want to show you how it's kinda old school, the way you cook your food and and and so some of you who work at camp, if you complain about your your equipment, how you like to work with that, right? Some some fire. Alright, next picture.

6:40 This is your typical home, dirt floors, a table, and they had the wooden places like that to cook and very poor and that's where we go and we present the gospel to the to the homes. Next.

6:55 Are they by homes or are they?

6:57 No, they have boards. Regular like two by two by twelves, two by eight boards just put together. There's holes in between and they have a metal roof and a dirt floor and so stuff like that. Alright. This is a rabbit farm that the missionaries have to help them support themselves.

7:16 This is their tent making thing. So... Alright. So that's a rabbit farm. Next.

7:21 What? Oh, it's gonna fall? Okay. Alright. Next picture.

7:27 This is Jeremy sharing the gospel in a home. Again, you can see the boards and the wall as well as dirt floors, couple of chairs, and so this is what we're doing every day going into homes, sharing the gospel. Alright? And Jeremy will tell you more about what happened there. Okay.

8:00 Next picture. And that's a rabbit heads. They also put that in the stew. And the the interesting thing about is that the the eyes, they kinda taste like jelly. They're they're really good, You know, with that with that hot sauce on them.

8:16 It was great. So, anybody want to come with us? This was our first meal and and Jeremy, was it was it good or what? It it was delicious. He'll tell you about it in minute if you don't believe Okay.

8:27 Nobody got sick. We all ate, and we loved it. Alright. Next. Alright.

8:33 This is the medical outreach. I can't remember what day, but you can see the people sitting there waiting. And I'm on the other side by the screen if you can see me. And we're we're presenting the gospel to them as they're waiting to see the doctors. And if you look to the right, that's the evangelistic team.

8:51 They're breaking up into three teams and they go throughout the town preaching the gospel. By the way, this is where Devin and Shelley were married in this building right here. That's where their wedding took place. Right? Yes.

9:03 And so that's what that is right there, the medical outreach. Okay. Next. Alright. This this is the girl that was cooking the rabbit for us.

9:16 Alright. Next. And a natural fire again. This is again Betty, and they're visiting a home that was very poor. And those four children, after they presented the gospel, trusted the Lord as their savior.

9:31 So we had a tremendous time preaching the gospel there. Next. That's it. Okay. Alright.

9:39 So at this time, Jeremy is gonna come, and he's going to share with you what he learned from the trip and how the Lord blessed him through it.

9:52 So unfortunately, I was completely unaware that I should be taking pictures and stuff. And then I realized realized, like, I'm in Mexico. I I should probably be taking pictures. But then my phone, the camera wasn't working at all, so my presentation is going be a little bit more dry, I guess. But, you know, yeah, we'll just...

10:10 I'll go through some stories that I thought were pretty impactful. So going on the Mexico trip, Mr. Gonzales did give us some information on what to expect, but I'll tell you one thing I was really not expecting. So, I think this is about three days in, we were going to a family of believers and they were singing some songs in the native language. So there's like Spanish and then a language called Nahuatl.

10:35 Am I saying that right? So they sang about, I think, two or three songs in that and they asked us to sing a couple songs in English. So Mr. Gonzales mentioned Lynette. So me and her were singing You Are My Hiding Place and I Love You Lord.

10:50 We'll shout it over there, Tim. Tim likes that song. So yeah, that was something I wasn't expecting me singing on a missions trip, but that pretty impactful to do that. And I don't know. It was really fun.

11:01 And and something about music that I thought was really cool is that I I love the worship times because I didn't necessarily know all of what they were saying. I mean, I think I learned a little bit, but it was so cool seeing them sing praises to God in in Spanish. Like, I I don't think I appreciate it as much the first day, but as we had couple more worship times, that was... It was just so cool to see those kind of experiences of us singing English, them singing Spanish, us trying to sing Spanish the best we can, but, I mean, that was really amazing. And let's see.

11:36 And another experience I had was we were evangelizing one day and and it was difficult because we weren't getting many responses. A lot of people were just coming out at the gate saying, we don't want to hear the gospel. We're too busy. And and then I was kind of talking with the team afterwards saying that we need to have a certain boldness when we're sharing the gospel. And I was mentioning maybe just say like, can you have three minutes, just five minutes just to share this message?

12:01 And this is something I had difficulty with starting off, the idea that this message that we're sharing is not of ourselves, but it is Christ in us that is sharing. Right? We're not sharing out of our own pride. We're not sharing out of any of our own accomplishment because that itself is not the gospel. Rather, we're sharing by the power of Christ, it's Him and us.

12:25 And for that reason, we can have a certain boldness when we share. And this is really what came to my mind that we can just ask like, just sir, please, just three minutes, just five minutes, just be insisting a little bit. And then, I think the next guy we talked to is a Catholic guy and after we mentioned that, he said, Yeah, listen to the Gospel. And we didn't necessarily hear response from him, but just that seed itself being able to share that, that's what's important, just sharing that seed. And I'll share you a couple more stories and these ones were particularly impactful because these are really little kids.

13:03 And I think I really enjoyed the most sharing the gospel with just really young people because you just see their eyes light up and there's a certain, I guess, they don't have that hardness or I guess, you know, when you're older, your face is little bit harder, a little different. When you're young, you have that softness and that kind of attitude. So it was just really cool to see in children when sharing the gospel. And I have about four quick stories. So the first one was two girls.

13:31 We we walked up a little bit on a mountain to share with them, and I was sharing the story of the winds and the waves and showing the power of of Christ that he had over nature. And the really nice thing is that we're going to a place with a lot of mountains, so I get... I just get to turn around a bit and just show all of creation and say, this is the person we're talking about, the guy that made the mountains that we see right here. So you have a lot of visual aids that you have when sharing the gospel and I thought that was awesome. And these two girls, they were sharing that they heard the gospel before but they had a little bit of uncertainty of their salvation.

14:10 So we we shared a bit about verses regarding that, like how, you know, everyone that says, Lord, Lord, not all of those are actually saved and couple other verses like that. But I was I was led to share about our privileges as believers. The fact that God, once we're saved, sees us as sons. Right? We have that sonship in him.

14:31 And when I was talking about that closeness that we can have with God and the way that he views us, I I don't know. Their faces were kind of lighting up from that. And I I think that going over in Mexico, you don't really see as nice families as we might have here. And I think those kind of stories of how God views us in that closeness and that father like way that He treats us. I think that's really impactful especially for the children.

15:02 So, with a lot of these kids, I really enjoyed sharing about that privilege we have as being sons before God. And with one boy, was sharing a story about Ehud and he was like a teenage guy. So I was thinking he might like this story, the guy that stabbed the king in the gut. And I thought it was I love this story because it's like this is this is the way that Christ defeated death. And I don't know.

15:29 It was... I really enjoyed that experience, sharing the gospel with the stories that we have in the Old Testament. And let's see. And another story I had was two little boys. I was I was sharing the story of Noah's Ark with them, and this was in a store.

15:48 And their their parents were away, they were kinda running the area. And and I was particularly struck in that experience because I was looking at these kids, was reminded how God viewed us, right, and how He views us. And I was looking at these little kids and I'm like, God has a desire for their souls. He he wants them to be in... He he wants them to be saved.

16:12 Right? He has that desire. You know, we know that God has a desire to call the whole world. Right? And he wants all of our hearts and he wants us to turn to him.

16:21 And just looking at those two kids, it... That kind of thought just never felt so real to me. The desire that God had, the love that he showed us, and the mercy that he showed us. The fact this is how he viewed us, and this is... This was in Christ's mind before he went on the cross.

16:37 And, yeah, and and all those stories, I I really enjoyed sharing with the little kid just seeing. It just reminded me the salvation that we have in the Lord. And... Yeah. And another thing I I was kind of...

17:25 I tend to I tend to just ignore that kind of stuff and just not include it in what what I think. But when we were sharing the gospel in the very beginning, we would just see like when we get to the point of this is the gospel right here, we hear like dogs barking and stuff, and we hear different distractions. And at first, it was something that I kind of glazed over, these kind of distractions like the if we're sharing with a parent, their child will come up and try to draw them away like, Oh, I need some help or something. But it was happening about every other conversation we had. And at a certain point, I'm like, this is more than just the physical experience that I'm having right here.

18:06 There's an actual spiritual warfare for their souls. Right? And that was never so real to me until I noticed that after a couple days. And another thing that was really impactful was this was the last day that we were here. And two things about that was that that final week, we...

18:31 So the first week, we had devotions and we had a time of worship before we went out to share the gospel. And we we also went out a little bit later, so all of us had a little time to prepare in the mornings and kind of prepare our hearts to share the gospel. That last week, we were starting at about... I think we're leaving at around eight or so, and it was a little bit more of a rush schedule. And we didn't have that time to align our hearts before the Lord and prepare ourselves before he went to share the gospel as much other than maybe a five, ten minute prayer, like a little prayer time.

19:05 And it was really evident how important it is to prepare before we do this kind of work. You know, even for our daily lives, how important it is to have that quiet time. And this was just so evident that last week because we didn't have as much time. And then that last day, was talking with Betty's husband, Dave Martin, and we were kind of talking about this like, Oh, we feel that that change and that difficulty spiritually when we're sharing the gospel. It's not as it's not as natural.

19:34 It's a little bit harder to engage with the people because we're not prepared, and and we were tired as well because the week has been going on. And and I was talking to him, and we were praying that before we got to that first house, the Lord would prepare us and just help align our hearts even though we weren't able to have as much time in the morning. And literally, the first family we met with was a family of believers, And these guys were sharing with us about how they got saved and God's faithfulness in their lives. And this was one of the most refreshing things that I've I've experienced over there. And then me and Dave were talking about this afterwards, and we were like, God answered our prayer within five, ten minutes.

20:16 We were asking him, we we need your help right now, going before him and saying that we need your help to share the gospel, and we would... We didn't have this time to repair beforehand, yet we know that our hearts have to be aligned to you and our focus has to be set on you to share this message to others, and we see that God answered that. And that was just amazing. I thought that was so cool. And that was the last day.

21:11 And and I felt that just seeing the people their share... So a lot of people that are sharing there are very young kids, and they they give about a summer to share the gospel. And seeing a lot of these Mexicans share the gospel, and I don't understand what they're saying. But just seeing their demeanor towards the people, and you can see their care for them. And and I felt that I had to express that care if the gospel message was going to be conveyed for me in an effective way.

21:42 I had to show that I cared for them, for this message to be conveyed effectively. And had to be a little personal too and not just give the doctrine of justification. But I have to say, God works in our lives personally. It's not just something that is... Of of course, the bible is real.

22:04 Right? The bible is real, but it but it's real in me too. And I have personal testimony of God working my life. I... He He saved me.

22:13 Right? He saved me, and I know who I was before, and I know the sin that God saved me from. And I realized that that's the message that I have to share with these people, and and I saw a distinct change of God kinda showing me what goes into sharing the gospel. And towards the end, I was sharing more about my life experience with these people and trying to engage. And and and the gospel became more personal, that evangelism effort, and that was that was probably one of the biggest things I learned going there.

22:47 And and I was kind of reminded by Matthew 13 when we see the parable of the sowers that we are going be seeing different types of people when we're sharing the gospel. We're going see those hard hearts. We're going to see those where the message is plucked away. We're gonna see that good soil and thorns as well. We see all those differences when when we're presenting, but that does not take away our responsibility to share.

23:16 Right? We are not God. We don't know. We can't we can't judge people's hearts the way that he does. So we still have that responsibility to share the gospel no matter what.

23:27 And and that was something that I was reminded of. And also in Matthew nine, that verse where it says that Jesus was moved with compassion for the multitude. And I should probably pull it up, but that's all that I can remember. And and I and I was and I was realizing that we also have to have that compassion. And we know it's Christ in us.

23:52 Right? And he can change our hearts and he can change our desires. And if we simply submit to him, we're able to act in that same way of compassion. And and I've also like... And I'd also like to convey to you guys that I think that God is specifically working in Westlake, and that we as an assembly and personally have a responsibility to share the gospel.

24:15 And I was thinking, what kind of testimony is it if I go hundreds of... Actually, is it thousands hundreds? I'm not too good with this since Thousand. A good good amount of miles away and share the gospel there, but I'm not doing it as much here. Like, what kind of testimony is that?

24:32 And I really felt a conviction of making it... Making a bigger emphasis in my life here to share the gospel. And and just seeing how God has worked in our in our assembly, right, just over the past couple years, how he addressed a lot of the internal struggles we had and how he was working in all of our hearts. And I feel like the next step coming very soon is our testimony among Westlake and among the people around us. And I think that that's where it's supposed to go.

25:05 And I mean, that's been something I've been thinking about for about a month or so. And I was talking to him about this a couple days ago, and he was brought up in conversation about evangelism. He said it was on his heart too, and I I think that God is gonna work in an amazing way in Westlake. And like Mr. Eichenauer was saying two weeks ago, we just simply have to submit to Him, submit to His will, and He can work in spite of our weaknesses.

25:30 Right? Because we know our weaknesses, God is fully aware of our weaknesses, but he's able to accomplish so much when we just submit to him. And I guess I'm just excited to see what he's gonna do. So, yeah.

25:49 Alright, Jeremy. So how how old were the people who were out witnessing? Were they my age or or were they younger?

25:55 About my age, I'd say. Probably younger than me. Probably teenagers.

25:59 Okay. So so was it unusual to see somebody 14, 15 years old out in every day going out with us to witness?

26:06 It would not be unusual.

26:07 No. That... Right? Yes. So we we would get into two trucks, go to the villages, spread spread into different teams, then we would go out and witness.

26:16 Right? And we would start early in the morning. What time would we get done at night?

26:21 Six? Was it six? Six? Yeah. Think around six or so.

26:24 Around nine, right?

26:25 Yeah. Around there. And we drive in.

26:27 Then we have to drive back for about an hour through through the woods. So it was young people who were who were out witnessing every day. I was probably the oldest guy there. Right? So just picture that.

26:40 Okay. So it it was young people. Right? Yes. Right?

26:43 And and didn't they move your heart to to wanna share the gospel more?

26:47 Oh, definitely. Like, it it was incredible to see these young people have so much fervent... Is fervency? Is that a word? Fervency in sharing the gospel.

26:56 Right. Like, it was so cool.

26:57 Yeah. Alright. So...

26:58 And that was something that... So I was with you guys. Yeah.

27:01 Yes. So we we joined them in other words. Our our team came and joined them and they do their daily witnessing. And so it's impressive to see how well they share the gospel. I think the average age was 14 to 20, maybe 25.

27:17 Around there.

27:18 Right around there?

27:19 Yeah.

27:19 Right?

27:19 Closer to four, like 14, 15, 16.

27:22 Yeah, right in right in that area. And so that's why Jeremy is saying that God's gonna bring revival and starts with young people. Right?

27:30 Yeah. No. I had so many conversations over there with the young people there and Lynette too. We were we were kinda... She was telling me about how God has been working in young people very, very recently and how they've kinda devoted their life to Christ.

27:44 And not only that, but they're... They've created, like, outreaches for college students and that kind of thing.

27:50 So Lynette is in Canada. She went on a mission trip with us. Yes. And that's who she's he's talking about.

27:56 And I was kind of sharing how it seems like that's been happening similar with a lot of the Christians I've known in my life too within a year or so and and we were kind of saying how we think a revival is going to happen in about five or ten years in the assemblies and hopefully in America.

28:09 Unless the lord returns, right? Amen?

28:12 That's harder for me to to kind of wrap my head around.

28:14 Alright. Yeah. Okay. Very good.

28:16 Amen.

28:17 Alright. So, what what what was your just in in a in a nutshell, what was your your greatest lesson or or thing that that blessed you about the trip?

28:28 I think how important the gospel is for a for a role that doesn't have Christ. And I I guess the the immediate necessity of it, how how right now there's so many people in need of it and even here. And and for me, it's like I can't wait till maybe I'm further on in life and maybe have more stability, like there there is a necessity right now to share the gospel. I think that was the biggest thing I took out of

28:54 it. Okay. Alright. And most some of the kids that were with us, their parents are not believers and their parents have rejected some of them and they live with the missionaries, right? So we we had a girl at 25 years old.

29:10 She had just become a lawyer. She trusted the lord and her parents disowned her and so she joined the missionary team. And the... She's serve... Serving the Lord.

29:21 And she says, I have no other family to go to right now, but but God is working even in her family. But there was several there who were abandoned, but the Lord saved them, and and now they're sharing the gospel. It amazing to see.

29:36 And you couldn't tell that these people came from these family lives because you just... You saw so much joy in how they shared, and this didn't seem like something that held them back in any way. If anything, it motivated them so much more to share the gospel, Okay. I would

30:04 Had gotten saved the week before, and Jeremy and I were sharing with him. Then we went across the the patio there. There was another home and that was their children. The grown up with with already married with kids. And we shared with them for about an hour.

30:20 And and they profess salvation in the Lord and that the the missionary team's going to come and and visit them weekly. But you were able to witness that, right, how we shared the gospel with them?

30:32 Oh,

30:32 yeah. And they turned to the Lord. In that same place, now listen to this. There's a guy, he's got a weird name, Abundio. He was a lawyer.

30:41 This guy was a mean guy. He had chased out Abdel and some of the other guys several times from that town and he practiced witchcraft and Hinduism and other kind of stuff like that. So this time, when we went to the town, he actually let us in and he wanted to hear from us a little bit. And then this is what he said to us. I want you to listen to this.

31:10 He said, I don't like you guys. And we're like, okay. Why don't you like us? He goes, because you you you change people's mind and you're changing the the atmosphere in the town. I'm like, hey.

31:21 Alright. Praise god. You know? I said, what a great testimony. And, of course, he fought us.

31:26 We're sharing the gospel with him, and he was saying all kinds of nonsense. But the lord is suffering his heart. At first, he wouldn't even let you in his house. So it was a huge step that he let us in the house. You were there, right?

31:37 Yeah. He didn't know what we were saying, but we were having arguments with him. Well, debating the scriptures. Yeah, that sounds better. Right?

31:45 Debating the scriptures. Okay. So another real quick story was when we were in Shelley's town doing the the outreach, we we had so many people there that we had to stop them from coming to see the doctors because they would never end. And then the town mayor came to me and said, we're so grateful that y'all are here and serving the community. He believed that he said that.

32:10 And then his assistant came and said the same. Then they brought about 20 children and said, Could entertain the children? Of course. So some of them that were there, the locals, they took all the children and for about an hour and a half shared the gospel with these children and and sang to them. And what an open door.

32:31 Their god's really working in Mishla in Sheree's town. By the way, I had a picture of her mom, but it didn't make the screen. I don't know why I sent it to you guys. It's supposed to be up there? Maybe you can find it before we're done.

32:44 Alright. So another one real quick. I got a few that I wanna share with you all. In in Tequila, the town of Tequila. Yeah, the drink, right, Tequila, that's what they call the town.

32:58 When we went there, I was given notice to go visit a young man who had gotten saved the week before at a camp, at an outreach camp. So we went to visit him and his sister was there, his older sister, and the mom was also interested in listening. Now the mom had stepped out but the sister was there and after about an hour of sharing the gospel with her, she was as ready as can be to trust the Lord. And her brother had just gotten saved the week before, so then we spent another hour telling them how to grow in the faith. So that was an exciting day in the town of Tequila.

33:34 So the Lord saves people even in Whiskeytown. Right? All right. Very good. And then the last day when we were in at Zompa doing the medical outreach, the medical outreach was in in every way, shape, and form of failure in that only eight people came that day to the medical thing.

33:55 There's about four four false teachings going on in that town, and they were opposing us in every way, and they were telling people not to come. However, we divided into like four teams and went into the streets to share the gospel, and we saw a lot of people listen and wanting to have them come and visit again and share more with them. So God worked in spite of the enemy opposing. All right.

34:26 Was a town where I was saying a lot of were rejecting our message and saying we don't even want to hear.

34:31 Right.

34:31 And yeah, that's when I was sharing people, we need to have a certain boldness when sharing.

34:52 And I'm like, this is ridiculous. The dogs weren't even around until we started sharing the word of God. Have you ever seen anything like that? And then we saw it consistently. Or we go to a home and all of a sudden all these people stop, oh, I want to buy something from you, or just interfering the whole time.

35:12 And so I started praying, you know, Satan from interfering because you know how it says in the Bible that Satan blinds the mind of the unbelievers so they can't hear the gospel. Like, you know, in the name of Jesus, stop this. All this barking and all these noises and the baby will start to scream and all these things, sooner we started sharing the gospel. And so we we saw that with our own eyes. It was a tremendous spiritual battle, and yet God gave us God gave us victory.

35:46 Right?

35:46 If I can mention some prayer. So that last day, I kinda got, like, a cold or something. And I was sharing a lot in that first half, but I got... Just got too tired at the end. So that second half of the day, I was...

35:58 I still wanted to go with all them because it was the last day. And I was just praying a lot while they're sharing the gospel, and I felt that that was for a very distinct reason because it showed me how much prayer is important while we're sharing the gospel. So while that one... So that while that... I think Ankell was sharing, one of the guys that was sharing, it was like, you have to be there with him in prayer, and you have to be there so late.

36:21 Yeah. You're mentioning prayer, and that came in mind.

36:25 Right. Amen. Okay. Can we answer any questions? No?

36:32 Okay. Encouraging. Yeah. Yeah. We were we were very encouraged.

36:36 I think every day... This is the first time Denzel. This is my first trip where every day we saw numerous people turn to the Lord. I I was I was amazed. Starting with that girl who's who couldn't hear and couldn't speak.

36:51 Just what a what an amazing trip. And so this is just a little corner of the ministry. They also have medical outreach. They have a camp. They have a radio ministry and a children's school, all kinds of things that they do to reach people for Christ.

37:08 Yes. Thank you. Okay. So the Tim, you're going put up those pictures, I'll show you what they are. What time is it oh, is that correct over there?

37:27 Forty eight. 07:48. Alright, here in the right hand corner, Abdiel and Cindy, they're the ones that we were with for the first seven days and they handle all the whole area that we were going to. That's their responsibility. And that's a team that was going out with us.

37:46 The man on the left hand corner, the older man, they were from Mexico City and they came to join the effort of outreach. But notice everybody else. Look at generally how young they are. Anyway, don't worry about the youth. They're young.

38:00 All right. On the front row. Okay, next. Next. Next.

38:06 Okay, here you go. This is Shelly's house and this is her mom cooking. Look how Shelly grew up cooking a natural wood. So she she ate natural food and she's healthy. Right?

38:19 So that's her mom. She cooked a meal for the medical team that was there that day. Well, for half of them, there was too many people. They had two families to help out. But this is how they cook over there every day.

38:30 So that's her mom cooking for us. So... Alright. Yes, Shelly's mom. Very good.