WEBVTT 00:05:44.278 --> 00:05:46.278 At about 730 that night, we were spread out over the house doing different 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:56.336 things and we heard too loud two loud explosions that from where I was 00:05:56.369 --> 00:06:00.067 sitting in the house, it seemed to echo quite a bit and it sounded like, 00:06:00.100 --> 00:06:05.846 sounded like thunder. And we're all, we're all sitting around and mom, dad 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:09.387 , mom, mom mentioned to dad that that didn't sound like an ordinary 00:06:09.420 --> 00:06:15.106 grenade which we're quite used to to hearing by that by this time. 00:06:15.139 --> 00:06:19.096 But all of us noticed and all of us thought it was something different. We 00:06:19.129 --> 00:06:23.805 were all woken up about five o'clock by lots of shooting and shelling 00:06:23.838 --> 00:06:31.838 grenades and such started about at five o'clock. As I already mentioned, 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:36.846 it was pretty solid. Some of it seemed to be pretty close. We estimated it 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:42.366 to be about a mile away near the UN compound that we were later to 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:48.127 evacuate to and things got more serious shooting was going on near our 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:54.627 house. A grenade went by, I mean, a grenade went off. Three grenades 00:06:54.660 --> 00:07:00.286 actually went off right, right around our house. One right below there was 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:04.536 , there was people yelling and chasing somebody telling somebody else to 00:07:04.569 --> 00:07:07.627 get in, get in his way, get in his way. And then, and then a grenade went 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:11.645 off and we didn't know what happened after that. 00:07:11.678 --> 00:07:15.145 There was shooting during the night, at one time there was a really close 00:07:15.178 --> 00:07:20.276 a shooting which sort of had us all sitting up there straight up with our 00:07:20.309 --> 00:07:24.317 hair standing on him for a few minutes. But 00:07:24.350 --> 00:07:30.947 before lunch, maybe we were singing, we decided, you know, we wanted to 00:07:30.980 --> 00:07:37.877 sing some song for we were singing. Must have been fairly loudly. I don't 00:07:37.910 --> 00:07:42.856 know. But all of a sudden then there was a great lot of shooting right on 00:07:42.889 --> 00:07:46.197 the road right above our house. And I said, you know, if you didn't want 00:07:46.230 --> 00:07:50.387 us to sing, all you had to do was ask us, you didn't have to shoot at us. 00:07:50.420 --> 00:07:55.495 But so after that, we didn't sing anymore. We were very, very quiet 00:07:55.528 --> 00:07:57.687 people. 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:01.697 It was really hard. There seemed to be like a lot of things we should be 00:08:01.730 --> 00:08:08.265 doing, but we didn't have the ability to concentrate on anything, but it 00:08:08.298 --> 00:08:12.015 was really, really hard to concentrate. And I think now there's a lot of 00:08:12.048 --> 00:08:20.048 things, every one of the common phrase that you hear is I wish I had, oh, 00:08:20.108 --> 00:08:28.108 why didn't I? And uh really terrified and felt like that I couldn't 00:08:28.588 --> 00:08:34.836 continue living in that kind of terror and went into our bathroom and 00:08:34.869 --> 00:08:41.525 knelt down beside the bathtub and prayed in us. Or to really touch me so 00:08:41.558 --> 00:08:46.557 that I wouldn't be, you know, just in terror and, and your heart just 00:08:46.590 --> 00:08:51.066 doesn't even beat. Right. And you're going to wet your pants all the time 00:08:51.099 --> 00:08:54.677 and you just can't, you can't live that way. And I really asked the Lord 00:08:54.710 --> 00:09:00.186 to help me to be able to put my trust in him and, and to remove me, remove 00:09:00.219 --> 00:09:06.385 from me, that sense of, of terror. And he did that and it was, it was a, 00:09:06.418 --> 00:09:12.566 it was a real blessing to feel the peace and the way the Lord did answer 00:09:12.599 --> 00:09:18.346 that prayer just really, almost immediately. And in the night, about 12 00:09:18.379 --> 00:09:21.986 o'clock, well, I didn't know what time it was, but in the night I woke up 00:09:22.019 --> 00:09:30.019 with a real, real strong sense of oppression and terror and sort of 00:09:30.450 --> 00:09:36.456 shaking in a kind of shock like the way I felt and so scared. And I had no 00:09:36.489 --> 00:09:41.316 reason I don't think I dreamed anything and I had no reason to be more 00:09:41.349 --> 00:09:44.717 frightened than I was any other time. And I really felt like it was an 00:09:44.750 --> 00:09:50.246 attack of Satan that he was really, he was telling me you're not going to 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:54.976 get out of this alive, you're going to die and you're going and just quit 00:09:55.009 --> 00:09:59.616 praying, quit believing, you're not going to get out of this alive. And I 00:09:59.649 --> 00:10:07.649 really prayed then and asked for Jesus protection from the satanic attack 00:10:07.788 --> 00:10:15.385 and, and he and my piece returned and woke up a little bit after that and 00:10:15.418 --> 00:10:19.116 he started asking what time it was. I thought I'm going to sit here until 00:10:19.149 --> 00:10:24.557 dawn. I thought I could maybe hear some birds chirping and it must be 00:10:24.590 --> 00:10:29.436 almost morning. And I'm just going to sit up here until dawn and see, then 00:10:29.469 --> 00:10:33.476 Millard woke up. So I asked him what time it was and he looked at his 00:10:33.509 --> 00:10:37.456 watch and said it's 1245. And I just wanted to hit him because I didn't 00:10:37.489 --> 00:10:41.765 want it to be in the middle of the night. I wanted it to be morning. The 00:10:41.798 --> 00:10:48.395 night seemed so long. And also at that time, there, there was, uh there 00:10:48.428 --> 00:10:52.047 was some shooting and there was, and as near as we could tell we were 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:57.066 being shot at and, and, and the, the UN guys act like they thought we were 00:10:57.099 --> 00:10:59.746 being all being shot at as well and they ran around and got in their 00:10:59.779 --> 00:11:05.316 positions and I think returned fire and, but we, we all were sitting out 00:11:05.349 --> 00:11:10.356 there in the grass. So we were, everybody said, you know, down, down and 00:11:10.389 --> 00:11:13.736 hit the, hit the dirt. So we were all laying as flat as we could, which is 00:11:13.769 --> 00:11:18.145 not too flat for some of us. And Sam was laying there too. He was lying 00:11:18.178 --> 00:11:22.726 between two cars but he laughed at us. He said he'd never forget the 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.196 picture of seeing all these missionary women laying there trying to hide 00:11:26.229 --> 00:11:32.407 behind the blade, blade of grass in the yard. But as soon as it slowed 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:37.217 down a little bit while we got up and ran into the house. But then I went 00:11:37.250 --> 00:11:42.287 out and sat on the balcony and then the tears began to come and they have 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:48.057 hardly stopped, but sometimes it gets better and what it has been a real 00:11:48.090 --> 00:11:53.255 comfort to me and help and, and, and, but I sat there and wept and wept 00:11:53.288 --> 00:11:55.427 for 00:11:55.460 --> 00:12:00.246 the people we left behind and for the things that I should have done for 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:07.927 them that I didn't do and, and many things that, that, uh, still I are 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:15.960 over painful and, but we're thankful that God is healing and we're 00:12:16.269 --> 00:12:21.236 thankful that hopefully, you know, we can learn some lessons. I don't know 00:12:21.269 --> 00:12:27.619 how this will affect our lives in many other ways, but I know that it will. 00:14:02.668 --> 00:14:04.668 Yeah. 00:15:30.239 --> 00:15:38.239 Ok. 00:16:23.570 --> 00:16:31.570 Spot. 00:16:33.340 --> 00:16:41.340 Cool. 00:16:43.719 --> 00:16:51.719 Mhm. 00:17:13.779 --> 00:17:15.779 So.