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Mission SONlight Chatt Season 4 Ep. 38 Rachel Henley - Wellness Educator · Mission SONlight CHATT

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Welcome back to Mission Sunlight Chat from the
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media missionaries of Network 7. We are at the
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General Conference Session 2025 from St. Louis,
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Missouri in the United States. Wherever you are
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watching or listening, we are grateful to have
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you along. Thank you for being a part of our
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audience. Here at the General Conference Session
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is an exhibit hall with hundreds of ministries
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visiting and sharing what Jesus is doing, where
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they live, where they work. in their region of
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the world. So a blessing to be here as one of
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the exhibitors along with them. We've set up
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our studio here, and we're sharing stories from
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mission and ministry from around the world. One
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of those stories is from Rachel Hindley and Living
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Water Retreat, and that is not the correct name,
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but it is the name how we say it in English.
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Tell me how we say it in Spanish. Portuguese,
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right? Portuguese. Estancia Agua Viva. Estancia
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Agua Viva. I just wanted our audience to hear
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how badly I say it. My accent is terrible, and
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that's why I said Living Water Retreat. That's
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good. Rachel Henley, thank you so much for joining
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us. Would you begin our program with a word of
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prayer? Yes. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you
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for this opportunity to be here and to listen
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to the amazing things you're doing through all
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your children in the world. We ask your blessing
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now, Lord, that we may be empty of ourselves.
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and that we may be filled with your spirit so
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we can speak your words, not ours, and share
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so we can grow together to the day you come and
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take us home. We ask these things in the name
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of Jesus. Amen. Rachel, thank you so much for
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that prayer. Just a reminder, our audience, we
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are in a very live setting here, and so you hear
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some background music or you hear people going
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by. That's what's happening here at the exhibit
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halls. Rachel, tell me first, before we learn
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about Living Water, what has been your journey
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with Jesus? Tell us about your youth and growing
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up years. Well, I was born and raised in Brazil
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in an Adventist home. What part of Brazil? Just
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curious. In the south of Brazil, Curitiba. Okay.
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And when I was 23 years old, I decided to come
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to the United States because I... I directed
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a singing group in Brazil, and we needed money
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to buy a bus so we could do our missionary work.
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All right, before you get to 23 years old, we
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need to learn a little bit more. There's 23 years
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you skipped. You were born in Brazil. What happened
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there? What was your life like there in Brazil?
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So we lived a simple life. We were three children
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and very strict home. When I was a teenager,
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I was kind of rebellious because everything was
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a sin, and you could not question. There seemed
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to be a lot of rules. Yes, and so I left the
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church for a few years, and then my mother had
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cancer and was in a serious situation where the
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doctor said, you know, we're going to operate
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on her, but only God can do miracles if she comes
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out alive. And that's when I asked her forgiveness
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because I loved her. But it was too difficult
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as a teenager and I asked her forgiveness. And
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she told me, if I had to die ten times so you
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come back to Jesus, I would. I had promised him.
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Love of a mother. Yes, I had promised him when
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I heard the news that if he gave her life, I
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would return. And you touched on a subject that
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I haven't talked for a long time. I didn't expect
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this. I'm sorry. It's okay. It's okay. Share
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from your heart. So then I returned to the church,
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and I have this leader personality, and I love
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to work with youth. So we put together a singing
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group, and we would travel different cities and
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go to nursing homes and hospitals. orphanage
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to sing. That was our mission as a youth. But
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we needed a bus where we could fit all this youth,
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20 youth, to travel easier. And somebody asked
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me, don't you know anybody in the United States?
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I said, yeah, I have some friends there. Well,
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why don't you go there and work for a year and
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you have the money to buy a bus? So that's what
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happened. It's too many stories to tell, but
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I came to the U .S. I didn't speak English, so
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I learned Spanish quickly because it's similar
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to Portuguese. What part of the U .S. did you
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come to? Las Vegas. Okay, wow. That was a culture
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shock. Yes, it was. And so I stayed there for
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a year, and then I went back. But it wasn't as
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easy as we thought. I didn't have the papers,
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so I couldn't work. Anyways, the singing group
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continued, and I went back to Brazil and stayed
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there for a year. But while I was here in the
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United States, I learned day -to -day English.
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So we had some issues financially. Then I came
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back to be a babysitter. And I studied English.
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And so I stayed. And then I met my husband, American
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Seventh -day Adventist. And we got married. And
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we had children. And many stories went by. And
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2006, my husband was killed in a car accident.
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Oh, I'm so sorry. And I had three children to
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continue to raise. And it'll take days to tell
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you this story. Somebody gave me a gift, a book
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that just God used it to prepare me for what
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was coming a month after when he passed away.
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It's called Skate to God from Jim Humberger.
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And it was just unbelievable. He talks about
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how God talks to us all the time. We just are
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not trained to hear it. So when I heard the news
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that he passed away in a car accident, I didn't
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even know what to do or what to say. And I fell
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on my knees and said, Lord, I cannot raise by
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myself three kids. I need you to show me the
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way. Amen. And so I heard him clearly tell me,
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you cannot do that by yourself. But there is
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nothing we cannot do together. Amen. Said okay,
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so I start journal for six months my journal
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every day the miracles that he did for us to
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be alive and continue and And it's amazing to
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look back this year is gonna be 19 years how
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many miracles he he did in our lives and He took
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us to back to Brazil for the ministry I don't
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know if you want me to tell a little more, but
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I know the time goes by This is a time for testimony,
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so share. Okay. So, unfortunately, my children,
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after his passing, soon after, they were very
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sad but very rebellious with the church and everything
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else and why this happened in our lives. And
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so they are not in the church anymore. But it
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is amazing to see how God is a specialist in
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transforming tragedies and blessings. We had
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this dream of going back to our country when
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retired to live a simpler life, buy a ranch and
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plant our own food. But God had... His plans
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are so much better than our plans. And so...
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After a few years this passing, I start questioning,
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what am I doing here? My kids, they don't want
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to go back. They're grown up already. But most
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of my family is there in Brazil. And so my sister
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and her husband want to go back too. And so we
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start praying and planning to go back to Brazil.
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And so we... Put my house to sale. And I start
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looking for land. First in the United States.
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But then God direct us to Brazil. And so we start
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looking and looking. But we couldn't do the job
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alone. We needed help. And so God connect us
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to people to do the work. We call brother and
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sister. They're not biological brother and sister.
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But they're from the heart. So he brought us
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together to have this place that then we can
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give the WhatsApp and the information we needed
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to build a wellness center, a lifestyle center
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there. And we looked for many years. But it's
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so many miracles. The place was not ready to
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be sold. So we were looking and thinking, we're
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tired. After a year and a half of... constantly
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looking we said you know what Lord you pick we've
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been praying and we thought this was the place
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we were gonna go and then it didn't work and
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the other one didn't work and then out of nowhere
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this guy that had sold the land for our friends
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said I'm gonna find the land for you and so then
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we understood because we waited and waited and
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it wasn't ready I remember one day we were praying
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together and asking God to tell us why the wait.
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We were getting discouraged. I had sold the property
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already. The money was there, but no property.
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And we were following their steps. Sister White
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puts how many requirements to have a land to
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do this. And so we read a devotional together
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that was speaking directly to us. where it said
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that when God calls us to ministry, He doesn't
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call us and sends us straight right away. He
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will call us, He will prepare us, and then He
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will send us. And it gave an example of Noah.
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How many years did it take for him to build the
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ark? 120 years. The example of Moses, 40 years
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in the desert. Paul, three years. And so... God
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was preparing us. Amen. And so then this land
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came about. It was everything that we needed.
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Nothing like any of the place we sought. And
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a few days before the... No, a month, I want
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to say. When we were closing the deal, we read
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in one of Sister White's health books that two
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things. God... was looking for courageous men
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and women to do the work with the health message.
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The work is going to be very difficult, but the
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blessings are going to be uncounted. And then
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also another citation that he said that in the
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end of times, God was going to, well, I forgot
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the word, but he was going to put in the hearts
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of rich men to build properties that we needed
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to use. And they're going to either sell it for
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a very cheap price or they're going to give it
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away. Well, this property was not for sale. Within
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a month, we had closed the deal. And it became
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yours anyway. Yes. How about that? And we bought
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for one -fifth of the price. Wow. The property
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was abandoned for three years. He broke. He is
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an engineer, and he had a hotel farm there. All
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the buildings were there. Everything was there.
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We didn't need to build anything. It was ready
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for you. Yes. It was waiting for us. Let's learn
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more about Living Water Retreat in our next segment.
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We're going to take a break. Okay. And thank
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you for sharing your story. You're welcome. And
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I'm sorry for your losses. Thank you. God is
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good. Yes. He redeems the time. He does. And
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Isaiah 40 says, they that wait upon the Lord,
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he renews our strength. Yes. Yes, he does. Amen.
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Thank you so much. We'll be back in a moment
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with more Mission Sunlight Chat. Being a media
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missionary can mean many different things. It
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means the love of a home at the heart of the
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planet, the intrepid spirit of a village and
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the vibe of a great metropolis. It means camera
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one and camera two. It means transforming a school,
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orphanage or hospital. It means fire, rain, ice
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and snow. It means gifts by the dollar and by
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the check. It means donations that roll and donations
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that fly. It's a movement on a trail or down
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a motorway. It means family. All of us together.
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And individually. It's who you are or who you
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are becoming. And to her, it's a simple gesture
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that means hope. Whatever it means to you. Being
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a media missionary means more than you might
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think. Welcome back to Mission Sunlight Chat.
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We are at the General Conference Session Exhibit
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Hall here in St. Louis, Missouri in the U .S.
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where they are having the churches every five
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years. They call it the Quinquennium Business
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Meeting of the Seventh -day Adventist Church.
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And they have an incredible exhibit hall where
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hundreds of visitors, exhibitors, businesses,
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ministries are here sharing what Jesus is doing.
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they work, where they live. And the opportunity
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to share that is our blessing as well. Rachel
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Henley, did I say it right? Yes. At Living Water
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Retreat. And let's say it one more time in Spanish.
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Estancia in Portuguese. Excuse me, in Portuguese.
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Estancia Agua Viva. Agua Viva. Living Water.
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Agua Viva. Okay. Is there a website for that
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as we talk about it that people can be aware
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of? Yes, there is. What is that? It's www .estanciaaguaviva,
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all together, 1 -A, estanciaaguaviva, cvs .com.
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And we'll put that into the bio so people can
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look at that and be able to click right on it
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and get that information from you. Living Water
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Retreat? It's a lifestyle center. Okay. What
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does that mean? Many of our audience are not
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Seventh -day Adventists, maybe even not Christians,
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so give us some information about what that means.
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So it's a center for health where we, it's specifically
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for our center. We are six people that live together,
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a family. Okay. And it's a lot of work. but a
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lot of blessings so what we do is we don't work
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all the time the whole month we do two weeks
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a month okay where people come to live with us
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for those two weeks or one week people come for
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one or two weeks and we use all natural therapies
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Natural Foods is a plant -based diet that we
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use there, and we help detoxify their body, their
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mind, and then it touches our spirit, and teaching
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the principles of the eight laws of health, practicing
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those principles every day. So when you say it's
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a lifestyle center, and you describe the things
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that are transformative that you've just described,
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you're basically talking about a better life.
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Yes. A healthier life. Definitely. A style of
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life that... improves your physical body, your
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intellectual, and by God's grace, your spiritual.
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Yes. And that's what we do in our wellness center
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or lifestyle center. I'm a psychotherapist for
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more than 30 years. So there I do lectures every
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day to help people understand that whatever we
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put in our body. It doesn't affect only our body,
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but our mind. And it affects our mind. It affects
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our spirit, too. And we have more than 50 % of
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the people that come there are not Adventists.
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And they're marveled to learn about the laws
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of health. And do it, because we don't just teach.
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We live it there. So the detox week is usually,
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they come on a Sunday afternoon and Monday. We
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start the program. They stay the whole day, the
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first day, on water and tea, detox tea. And we're
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praying with them all day long. We do worship
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time in the morning and in the evening. We don't
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discuss religion, but we talk about God all the
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time. We tell them we are a Christian wellness
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center, and we don't discuss religion, but we're
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here to talk about God and praise Him and pray.
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and ask his help to transform our minds because
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that's what he needs to be transformed. And so
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then the second and third day, they are on a
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juice diet. They drink fresh juice that we make
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there every three hours. They are not hungry
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at all. They miss chewing, but when you do the
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juice and you strain it with a thin clot, Then
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you take the fiber out, so the nutrients go straight
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to your blood. And so you're nourished more than
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ever. And then two days of raw food. And the
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third day, they're just amazed to see how their
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palate has changed, their mind is so much clearer.
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We have people coming with all kinds of diseases.
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Some people come because they want to learn to
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improve their lifestyle. Most of them have diabetes,
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high blood pressure, high cholesterol. Some people
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are coming with cancer and mental health disorders
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also. And it's just amazing. Every week that
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we have detox, we see miracles there. People
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come with bags of medicine for all kinds of problems.
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And within a few days, they're decreasing the
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amount because they're feeling so much better.
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With exercise. They're sleeping earlier. They're
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not eating a lot. And the food they eat is plant
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-based. We plant most of our food there, too.
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It's organic. We are on a 15 -acre property.
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Our water is mineral water from the well. You
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should come and check it out. It's amazing. Where
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are you located? In Brazil, near São Paulo city.
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Near São Paulo. Yeah. So it's like two hours
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from São Paulo. Okay. It's just unbelievable
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to see. We have so many testimonies. And God
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gave us the gift of coming here because we didn't
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have the money. It's very expensive. The dollar
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is like almost six per one. Okay. To advertise
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our center to the whole world. So you said you
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have some exciting testimonies. Can you share
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one of those with us? Yes. I was just seeing
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one today. One lady that came, she was so big.
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And with all the diseases you could possibly
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think, she couldn't even sleep in bed. She slept
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sitting on a chair, 105 kilos. So that's more
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than 200 pounds. She's short and heart problems
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and all kinds of things. And we put her on a,
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I think, seven -day juice diet, fasting. She
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had some problems there while she was there that
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we thought, oh my gosh, we're going to lose her.
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But she was there for two weeks. And when she
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left there, I want to say she had eliminated
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close to 10 kilos, almost 20 pounds. And we just
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got a picture of her today. If you want, we can
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show the before and after. She couldn't cross
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her legs on the second day. She was able to sleep
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in her bed already, in the bed that we offered.
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And she stopped the diabetic medicine because
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she was having hypoglycemia. And so it was incredible
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to see the difference. We have had men usually
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eliminate faster than women. So we had men that
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came and had all kinds of health problems. And
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within two weeks, we had one that eliminated
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20 pounds. And it's like, but we tell them, we're
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not so much concerned with the weight. We want
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to see what's happening inside. The visceral
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fat is the serious problem. They can kill you.
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So we work on that. And we push them to exercise
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every day and to apply the loss of health. And
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it's just amazing, the results. It really blows
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your mind. Yeah, when you change your lifestyle,
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it is something that, as you say, blows your
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mind because these are things that you can do
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every day. And in fairness, there are some places
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where it is harder to get a plant -based diet.
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I know one country, I won't name it, but one
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country that I regularly have visited. It is
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very difficult for them to get a plant -based
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diet. The fruit and the vegetables are not as
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readily available. And where they are available,
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they're very expensive. So they have had to adapt
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to try. But it isn't just about nutrition. Exercise,
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water, sunshine, good temperance, not taking
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in bad stuff is as important as putting in good
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stuff. And then, of course, air and rest. These
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are things that are usually doable. So there
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is an element. We call it new start. There is
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an element of the nutrition exercise. Water,
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that's the new, and then sunlight, temperance,
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air, rest, and trust in God. Because trust in
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God is foundational for all of it. But those
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elements, they may not all be reachable where
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you are, but certainly because we trust in God,
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we can move in that direction with what of those
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principles we have we can do. And part of that
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trusting in God is sometimes he moves us. where
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we're having difficulty with doing those things
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to putting us in a place where we can do those
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things. Maybe it might be a relocation or it
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may be supplying our needs differently than he
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has before. I love the principles of health.
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I think you would agree with me. It's very important
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as we talk about this because you talked about
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the rules growing up. We don't want to pay so
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much attention to the rules that we forget the
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God who gave us these principles, not because
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they're rules, but because we can have life and
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have it more abundantly. And you know, my experience
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as a youth person, I didn't take care of my health.
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I ate whatever I want, whenever I want, as much
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as I wanted. And because I was born skinny, I
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can eat an elephant and not gain any weight.
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So I thought I was the healthiest person. And
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then I learned afterwards that now there is this
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diagnosis, is the TOFI, thin outside, fat inside.
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That's what I was for many years. So I would
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be getting the same diseases as an obese person
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and didn't know. And so today I'm taking care
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of diseases that have no cure, autoimmune diseases,
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because I didn't take care of my health when
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I was young. So I like the way it is written
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originally, the eight laws of health. For some
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reason in Brazil and South America, they translate
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it the eight remedies of God. But, you know,
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medication doesn't cure anybody. It mediates.
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And so it's much more profound, the eight laws
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of health, because I don't like to take meds.
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So I can choose not to. But when our eight laws
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of health, if we follow them. There is no way
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not to have health. If you don't, there will
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be the consequences. For an example, we have
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Dr. Angela who comes there quite often and teaching
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and bringing her patients. She taught us something
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that we never heard. Exercise does the, sometimes
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I forget the words, it does the job of the insulin.
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So some of her patients that have diabetes. They
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come, she measures their glucose, and then it's
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high in the morning, so she tells them, before
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you do anything, you go for a walk for 30 minutes.
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Right. So they go, and when they come back, she
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measures again, and it's normal. And so it is
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just amazing. Diabetes type 2, there is cure.
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Yes. You just have to change your lifestyle.
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You don't have to take a pill. No, but it's so
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much easier to take a pill than to change your
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lifestyle. And, you know, working in the last
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20 years, I work with obesity and bariatric patients
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and people that want to change habits. And I
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didn't realize until I saw my severely obese
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patients, they were so addicted to food that
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they couldn't stop eating. And the food industry,
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they put so much stuff there that causes you
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to be addicted to it. And so I didn't realize
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until working there that... Satan is using powerfully
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food to enslave us, and we are not seeing it.
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So the only way for us to have victory over our
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food addiction, most people are addicted to food,
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is on our knees. There is no other way. Well,
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we need food. We need power for our bodies. It's
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a matter of what kind of energy we want to put
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in, what kind of food, what kind of fuel. Yes,
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we put in our body. I might have it by the end
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of the program. Rachel, thanks so much for joining
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us. We're going to be back in a moment with a
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little bit more to chat about. For our listeners
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Our salvation is a day -to -day matter, isn't
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it? The real principle of the Sabbath is reconnecting
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ourselves with the Creator. We must learn to
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abide in Jesus now. We move ahead with our mission
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objectives, recognizing that we are serving together.
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Welcome back to Mission Sunlight Chat, where
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we are at the General Conference Sessions Exhibit
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Hall. And exhibitors by the hundreds are here
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sharing where God is working, how he is working.
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And one of those exhibitors that is here is Estancia
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Agua Viva. Living Water Retreat. Yes. Just outside
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of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sao Paulo, the region there
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in Brazil, is a beautiful place. I've visited
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there several times. There's a wonderful multiple
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university campuses that I have visited. There
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is a large broadcast media facility. Yes. If
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I say it right, Nuevo Tiempo? Novo Tiempo. Novo
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Tiempo. Yes. I said the Spanish version, didn't
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I? Yes. Novo Tiempo. Really love what they're
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doing there. They have some incredible media
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and sound stages there as a media ministry. They
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have provided some support to us and we have
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also provided some support to them. So it's been
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a good reciprocal relationship as well in my
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visits down to Brazil. I haven't learned much
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Portuguese. I can say obrigado. Very good. So,
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bom dia. Bom dia. So that's probably... Safe
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to stop there. So you need to come there more
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times. Yeah, yeah. I need to come and spend some
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time at Living Water Retreat. Yes, yes. Rachel
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Henley, you are a blessing, sharing from your
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heart. So thank you for being a part of our program.
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Before we close out, I know you have some words
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of encouragement you want to share with our listeners
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and viewers. So I'm just going to invite you
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to do that now. Yes. You know, when I received
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the news of my husband's passing, I was so devastated
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because... We were just getting ready to move
31:27
out of the city and buy a ranch and live in a
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ranch. He was American. That was his dream since
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his childhood. He was raised in a farm. So I
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didn't understand why. Today I do. But I asked
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God to give me the strength to keep going so
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I could raise our children in his ways. And I
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had to learn to live one day at a time. If I
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thought about the past, I'd start crying. Things
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that I did that I thought, why did I do this?
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Why did I fight with him about that? Did he know
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how much I loved him? And if I thought about
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the future, I would think, well, our kids grow
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up or maybe go to college, get married, have
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children, but he won't be here to see it. And
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so that would just drive me crazy. And so I had
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to learn to live every five minutes. And God
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gave me a Bible verse that until today touches
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my heart and gives me strength to keep going
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no matter what. Philippians 4, 6, and 7. Do not
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be anxious about anything. But in everything,
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my prayer, petition, and thanksgiving, put your
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request. upon the Lord, and He will give you
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the peace that surpasses all understanding, which
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will guard your hearts and your minds." And I
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thought, wow, why didn't it say it will guard
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your soul? But you know, working in the mental
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health fields for so many years, I have seen
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many things. When we are disturbed, we become
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anxious, and we could have a heart attack just
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by being anxious. And so we guard our hearts
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and our minds. When we are disturbed, our mind
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is lost and our heart is affected by it. So he
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takes care of everything, no matter where you
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are, no matter how difficult you may seem to
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be in this situation and think that you can't
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take one more step. He promised that he's never
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going to leave us and that he will always be
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there with us. And I'm a living testimony of
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that. When I look back in my life and I thought,
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I can't do this. We cannot. But he can. All things.
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We can do all things through Christ who gives
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us truth. Amen. And that has been my testimony.
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Thank you for sharing that with us, Rachel. And
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we have right next to our exhibit hall a ministry
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that is sharing. sound system equipment and they
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are singing the song praise the lord i'm almost
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certain you can hear it but if you can't um what
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a perfect timing to hear that song being played
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rachel henley from estancia thank you so much
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for sharing living water retreat um you know
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there are a number of retreat centers throughout
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the united states but maybe somebody needs a
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little international escape and they could come
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to your Home, essentially there. Yes, we live
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there. And have an opportunity to change what's
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inside by what they put inside body, mind, and
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soul. Amen. Thank you so much for sharing that.
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