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I suspect it will be like the bear documentary in Alaska...

I once went with an old missionary to deliver food to poor homeless people and orphans in Tijuama and Baja. I went with him and a few young military guys I worked with. I didn't go thinking I was anything special but the young guys I was with were thinking they would be Pastors and missionaries etc... What most impressed me was the wisdom the older missionary had about the nature of what he was doing. He was giving people a few meals to help get them by, while the younger guys were fussing about how the older guy was sort of just petering out in his ministry as he got older.

One had wisdom and the others were so far off base that it was a joke. One young guy even got mad when the old guy took his food and gave it to some homeless kids living in a cardboard shack. It was sort of like the difference between the fathers in the Exorcist. The old guy wasn't seemingly on fire about things but he did know what he was doing and what he was dealing with.
 
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