Inside Scoop On My Mission Trip to Romania & Moldova (feat. Collin Huffman)

In this episode, Bobby shares his powerful experience from a recent mission trip to Romania and Moldova, while Collin Huffman and Gia ask the questions that bring out the real, unfiltered story.

From visiting orphanages to witnessing both hardship and hope firsthand, Bobby opens up about the moments that impacted him the most—and the ones that were harder to process.

This conversation goes beyond surface-level highlights. It dives into:

• The emotional reality of the trip
• Stories that didn’t make it to social media
• How the experience challenged Bobby’s perspective and faith
• What he brought back with him that he didn’t expect

Through honest questions and real answers, this episode gives you a deeper look into what missions actually feel like—and why experiences like this don’t just stay overseas… they stay with you.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey guys, Robert the Realist back today for a new podcast. And today we have Ja Ja Ja Gia.

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Yo yo.

SPEAKER_00 0:10

And we've pulled in Colin. Hola. Um today what I wanted them to do was since I just got back from my missions trip was to Romania and Moldova. I wanted them to ask me questions about my missions trip. And Madison wasn't able to make it today, which is fine. She has a busy life. But while it was still fresh in my head, I wanted to be able to talk about my missions trip and what went on there. So we'll uh let Colin and Gia tag team this one and uh ask some questions. Colin just wanted to be on the podcast, so when it hopefully this will help it go out. That's why I feel cool. And he wanted to hear himself talk with the headphones. Yeah, he wants to be a lot of people. Favorite part?

SPEAKER_02 0:56

He wanted to be a part of the cool kids.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

But yes, I just just got back on a missions trip. I left on the 19th and just got back about today. We're recording this on Wednesday the 29th. I got back about 10 p.m. last night. Um yesterday by itself, which is gonna sound weird, but when you travel across the big pond, you lose hours. So yesterday was a like a 34-hour day. And uh I can feel it. The time, the time I can feel it. I could probably close my eyes and take a nap right now. He looks like it too. Yeah. I've been told more than once that my I look a little tired. So I went to bed about 11 and got up at 7:30. And it takes about a week to get back in the swing of things, but I wouldn't change a thing. It was super cool. So I will turn it over to one of you to ask uh questions.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

So before we get into anything specific, I do want to know, and this is purge GBT, thank you, chat GBT. Um, what was the moment like for you whenever you landed in Romania? Like, what was the vibe? What was the feel? Like, what was God putting on your heart?

SPEAKER_00 2:09

Since I had been to Romania before, I was pure excitement. It was like the feeling of most people's vacation because I have some created some really good relationships with the people who run Bread of Life. Um, Aline, he's not a he's not a pastor, was I think, but now he's just kind of I think he's like executive director of the Bread of Life. So when I hit Romania, I was ready to see them. They were like family to me. So and I talked to him via WhatsApp, text message, or or Snapchat quite a bit. So yeah, my vibe was probably different than everybody else's, which I was like not like a second home, but pretty excited to be there. Yeah, the vibe was good, and then I knew I was getting to go to the orphanage and see the kids and spend a little time with the youth, and so good vibes.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

My question would be what was your favorite like food item slash dish that you ate while you were over there?

SPEAKER_00 3:06

Wow, all right. That's uh that makes the brain work, and it's not working very well. So they got I don't know the name of the dish, but and I'm probably gonna destroy the name of the restaurant that we ate at, and it was in Moldova, La Placentia, I think that's what it was called. And so they have this Moldovan dish, which is it's a it was a bowl of you get either pork or chicken, and then it had um a contain like a little bowl of sour cream, and then a bowl of I believe it was like an oil, garlic-based basil oil, and then uh uh I'm telling you all this because you'll you'll figure out why. Um then they had this crumbly cheese, and then they had this I don't know any other way to say it, but like a yellow blob. I mean it was shaped great. I can't remember what they called it, and it was like a moist cornbread texture. So what you did was you took a a fork of that, and I watched other people there eat it, and some of I didn't I'm not a crumbly cheese guy, so me and the cheese, we didn't we didn't vibe, right? Cheese cheese stayed on the plate.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

Cheese stayed on the plate.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

What I do is I would take that, you're supposed to take that, put it in the crumbled cheese, sour cream, and then into the oil and eat it. And that's how they ate it. And then you had the chicken. But what I would do is I would take the yellow cornbready stuff and grab a piece of chicken and it hit the sour cream and then hit the oil and then eat it that away. Now, was that the best? But I would say yes, just because it was a m a Moldovan dish. Like the Moldovans, I was people with at regulars would come, that's what they ordered. Like the guy, Pastor Vitali, that run the church in Moldova that we were at, that's what he had for lunch. Like when we were there. Like, I mean, this is so I wouldn't say like it was necessarily the best, but it was the best overall experience because it was a Moldovan delicacy, I guess, or dish.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

Sounds good.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:20

Sounds real good.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

Yeah, kind of hungry right now.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Me too. I just ate a Pop Tart.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

No, it's not quite the same. It's not quite the same.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

I know that obviously you've already been to Moldova once, but Romania once. Romania, whatever. Um this time you took your daughter, my sister, obviously. Uh, what was that experience like being with her, um, kind of watching her do things out of her normal comfort zone?

SPEAKER_00 5:48

To be honest, I was a little worried because as we know, she's a little bougie. Okay, she's got the finer things in life, which is fine. And I knew that the travel because the longest flight was from the States to Frankfurt was about a nine-hour flight. To me, I actually enjoy it because you know you disconnect, no internet, nobody calling, texting, emailing, nothing. I got nine hours to myself, and they feed me food, but back to her. Uh, I didn't know what to expect, but she did phenomenally well with the sleep, with the with the days, the long days, because you really don't. I mean, when we're in Romania, there was a bunch of kids on or around her age, and she, if she had time and we weren't like feeding the hungry or going into villages, she was out there playing soccer with and playing basketball with and playing nine square and and foosball and laughing and having a good time with the girls. And then when we got to Moldova, the head of youth group, same thing. And then I asked her, you know, I said, What do you think? She goes, I love it. I said, Would you come back? She goes, Absolutely. So honestly, my thought process is like, this is a one in one and done type thing, but she wants to go back to Romania to the orphanage. She had fun because there was a bunch of girls her age, and she was just laughing and giggling, and and the language barrier was tough, but Google Translate helped out a lot. So it was different. Yeah, it was different. It was but it was good.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

It's good.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

Yeah, you should you're you're next. I'm next. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

So was there a moment that like hit you harder, like it was heavier than what you first anticipated or what you first thought it would be?

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Yeah, so when we well, a couple different I'll I'll take one from each, one in Romania and one in Moldova, because those those again are kind of two different animals for what we went for in Romania and Broshin. I'll let the you know recorded the podcast from there. You spelt it broshin, but it's broshini, so it's B-R-O-S-T-E-N-I. And so the guy I was doing the podcast with, he's like, You gotta fix that spelling. Because I didn't even pay no attention to it. So I'm throwing G under the bus because she couldn't spell it. Um could not, yeah. But so there hit me when we went into a very, very, very poor village where they don't even have water, running water, electricity, and we were able to give out boxes of rice and bags of potatoes. It was like we drove up like what there would be their Morley Street, right? Their main street, and people knew what we were doing and who we were, and so within moments we were surrounded by people, kids, elder, you know, of all ages, all shapes and sizes, and they're just you know, begging for a box of rice, begging potato potatoes was the hit because usually they just bring rice, but we'd got a bunch of potatoes when we were in Bucharest. We didn't, but Bread of Life did, so we loaded all those up and stuff, but we were able to take it out. So that was that was pretty wild. And I think uh Pastor Brad has some video out there of the front of the truck, and then Christy has some video of from the back of the truck. I was in the back of the truck handing stuff out, and just seeing the people just you know, where we take things for granted that that they just that might be their that might be their meal they just had for the last two or three days, or it may just be their you know next meal for the next week or whatever. So it was pretty crazy. And then Moldova, that was there was a lot of experiences, it's gonna be kind of hard, but we visited poor people, and they're poor, and uh our poor is two different things. Like their poor is and I put posted a picture of this, like we went in this one lady's house, and she had a door down to cover the hole in her floor, and then there's like a family of cockroaches in there, and I didn't look in the bathroom, but one of the people that was with us was in the bathroom and the toilet was full of feces, and there's some pictures I put on there of like the kitchen, unhabitable living, and that lady had been a teacher for 40 years, and that was her retirement, and she was the hat one of the it's it's like when I went to the Philippines, the happy, just happy people living like that. And she just had surgery on her back, and when we were there, one of the things she she said, really, I don't have anything to pray for. And you're thinking, What? You know, I we can do a lot of praying, a lot of stuff right now. But her thing was is she had had surgery and her back and hip was still bothering her, so she went from one room to the other with a footstool, bent over, and she was just hobbling with the footstool, but she was so sweet, nice, laughing, smiling, had some gold teeth. I don't know if gold the gold caps were cheaper when the when they because you see a lot of the gold teeth. Um, her, and then we went and visited a couple other poor people that was just listening to them. Um, one of the ladies we went to had uh just lost her husband in November, I think, of last year. He was 92, and she had lived in that particular apartment since 1962. And when we walked in, she said, Wipe your feet. And when you got in there, you're like, I don't even want to take my shoes off. So I just watching, you know, visiting the poor people and then visiting the prisons. So I got to uh preach the message at the adult prison to the men and women. We did them separate, and uh just to watch and listen, and we got to hand out sweet bread and Coca-Cola's at the end, so they were pretty excited about that. But the prisons, and then we did that, and then we went to a juvenile prison after lunch, and the juvenile prison was wild, like wild, like gangs, gang members, gangsters, gang members, tatted, 12-year-olds, 18-year-olds. Yeah, one kid I'd swear was like the size of Kyle or Kaylee, like just strolling through just to go set. But it was crazy because you're thinking, man, they're all hardened criminals and they wouldn't do it. But we started singing, and they started singing, and they started clapping, and they started tapping their feet, and they and I was like, all right, because at this point there's six guards, four, four or five of us, and fifty of them. Like they we we'd be toast if they wanted us to be. So, so yeah, back to the so feeding the hungry in Romania, and then the split uh of visiting the poor people and the prisons in Moldova were probably the two things that hit me the hardest. Sorry, I get off script a little bit sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

Well, that that was kind of gonna tie into my next question. I was, I mean, you talked about a lot of moments there. Um, I was gonna ask, what was the biggest moment, and then like how did that change your perspective on life or like change you as a person if you had any of those? I know it's a tough question. It is get the gears rolling in the brain and trying to wake you up.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Yeah, well, it's just a lot that happens, so different things change you and make you feel different ways. So we're at the church, and your sister had gotten the little baby Jesus' from my mom, and Christy brought suckers. And so there's a lot of big things that happen, but when we watch anybody from the adults to the kids getting the baby Jesuses and the dumb dumb suckers, not the you know, Tootsie roll, Tootsie's gum in the middle, the dumb those are fire, by the way. I know that's what I'm saying. Like they're not even getting that, just getting the little suckers and the little baby Jesuses, and watching Kaylee go around and pass those out, her natty, and people really happy and excited. And then you go back and think to us as we drink our ten dollar coffees and we get the good suckers, right? And we don't even think about that, just just watching how, and I guess that would be across the board, how thankful that everybody was for the things they got, and they're all things that we take advantage of here. And so that's what I wanted your sister to get out of it, and how I get out of it, it's like a reset for me. It's like I come back and like I why do I have this stuff? You know, when people are over there happier, I'm not gonna like say happier me like I'm sad, but happier than most people over here with a fraction of what we have, a fraction, or sometimes nothing, like the clothes on their back, that's it. So, you know, just the just the little moments like that when you can see people get excited when they got the sack of potatoes or they got a sucker, and here I am looking around, and there's grown adults my age, like just got a little dumb dumb sucker in their mouth, and they're just happy. And then your sister turned around and gave this guy, who was probably my age, a Jesus, one of the little Jesuses, and she gave it to him, and he's like, Oh yeah, that's so you know, said something in in Romanian and was giving it back to her. He thought she was just showing her, and she's like, No, you have it, you have it, you know, his eyes lit up and got a big smile. I mean, the dude was wearing a suit, he wasn't, and he was just like thankful for that little Jesus that Jesus loves you on it, you know, the little Jesus. So I don't know. It was just all those little moments watching people, you know, get things that we take for granted over here.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

So that's really cool. Was there anyone in particular, like a certain person or a certain conversation that stuck out to you as like oh that's easy.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

That was Andre, the podcast I did with Andre.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

It was really good.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

Um, because I thought I I didn't know a ton about Andre, but I didn't know like I was recording the podcast, and I almost forgot I was recording the podcast. Like I'm in his life with him from some of the stuff in his childhood to like I knew that he you know fell in a tree at the orphanage, and that's how he I'd say broke his back, but severed his spine in half. But I didn't know he played semi-professional wheelchair basketball. I'm like, dude, that's so cool. So he is inspiring to me because he could come back to the states, and his his mom has got a multi-million dollar business. She is extremely wealthy. His brother, who is his same age, adopted as well, already bought his first great big house and works in the business and already a supervisor over people. And you know, his brother never hear this, I doubt. But his brother, he's like, I could my brother, you know, probably doesn't really deserve to have. I mean, he's worked his way through it, but he's like, I could go back and have an easy life if I wanted to. But instead, he lives over there in a wheelchair, right? So he's got to walk around these poor, you know, second world countries.

SPEAKER_02 16:44

Yeah, that are not very wheelchair accessible.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Yeah, not very wheelchair accessible. Only certain places he can go to the bathroom, relies on people to put his wheelchair up for him in his vehicles. Now he's got a vehicle over here, he just drives. It's uh it's got like a little shifter that's a gas and brake. I mean, when we got there, I jumped in with him and we and he drove. And I knew he could drive because I'd been with him before, but he is by far probably one of the main things for me over there is is him and then got you know sitting down with that podcast and listen to more of his life, and then yeah, and then he you know followed up with me, and he's got some shirts and hoodies he wants to make me that you know he's been making himself. So yeah, that's the guy, Andre.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

It was a really good podcast. I really, really enjoyed editing and going through that one.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Yeah. Um, would you say that you would recommend missions trips to everybody, or does it take just a certain type of person to go on those missions trips?

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Certain type of person, yeah, certain type of person. And I think m Pastor Vic and I had kind of discussed that when we were on our missions trips. Like, we know our significant others wouldn't go on a missions trip. Like, I would love to take your mom down to the Philippines and meet Caleb and all those. And and I probably will. I think a missions trip's different and you know, the location. Right. You think beach and all this, but it's not. It's it's a dirty beach and water that you can't you can't see your hand one foot in the you know, one foot in front of you in the water type place. So it's not there is nice places in the Philippines and they go there, but no, I think it's a calling, like that you have to be called to go, but once you're called to go and you go, you're addicted. Like it is, I'm ready to go to the Philippines. I'm more excited to go to the Philippines than I am to go to Florida for seven days.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

I would be down for either, to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

I'm not gonna say I don't want to go to Florida, but I'm more excited to go to the Philippines than I am to go to Florida and know that my conditions will not be as good as Florida, but just the mission. I'm gonna get to go down there and check out the new, you know, hopefully the church and hammer some nails into it and be a part of it. Shoot some hoops again, or I probably will, you know. I was a baller, dude.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Supposedly you hurt your back or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

I hurt my back within kids are probably giving you buckets. Within one minute, dude. I was I was long range. Like you can't touch me. It's just it was a game. Like I wish it was on video.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

That's what everybody says.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Well, I was in a different country. You can't prove me wrong. But within 30 second 30 m seconds, I felt like a being there. I get hit in the face with a volleyball and bust my sunglasses on my face and cut my eye, and still went out and balled with no glasses and I just don't believe it. No, you have to ask like Ricky Hans, William Van Landing handle they know, Bob was just draining them.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Draining them left and right.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Yeah, I mean I the only person I could compare myself to playing that day that's alive today, probably Steph Curry. Wow. It's everything I was throwing up. You know, it was going in. Steph Curry, the the greatest shooter of all time, by the way. In America. I was at that time, I probably was the greatest shooter in the Philippines.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

On that?

SPEAKER_00 20:07

In Fanta, Infonta, Philippines, in the font Infanta village. I was Steph at the moment. This guy didn't even play high school basketball, by the way, but he did a little bit. Yeah. A wee bit.

SPEAKER_02 20:18

Road bench. A little bit. Hey, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

I might be stretching a little bit, but you know what I mean. I was I was Mollin. But yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Are you guys gonna go anywhere? I know that you've talked about the Philippines and Romania. Um are you gonna go anywhere else other than those two, or do you just gonna kind of main those two places? I know the church has talked about Mexico. Yeah, I didn't know if there was any other places that they were thinking about.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

Um, to the best of my knowledge, I actually just got off the phone with Pastor Vic about the split trip because that we were kind of guinea pigs for that to see what we thought about it. I didn't think I thought it worked well, but I think it would work better if they were split. Because if I went back to Romania, I'd like to go back to Ukraine because that's a whole nother experience. It's just a whole nother vibe. Um, no Mexico. Uh and see, like that that's not when I talk to God about missions in Mexico, he does not pull me to Mexico. I have zero interest in going. Ricky can't wait to go back. Christy can't wait to go back. I can't wait to go back to Romania. Moldova was great. My heart's in Romania and the Philippines. And I don't think I don't know if the church would, you know, I don't know if they have any ideas of going anywhere else. I mean, to me, I wouldn't because I talked to your mom for three years, bumped her, nudged her in church. Every time they say Romania, Ukraine, she said no. I said, Next year, bumped her, no, bumped her, and she said, All right. And that was the one that Pastor Vick also said that you you're going. I'm like, Well, I know. Mindy said I could go. He goes, I know, yeah. you going? Like it was you know, you know him. He's yeah, he's right up there. Right. Yeah. Right hand. Yeah, he's the left. Left. Yeah. But he was uh yeah I don't know. I think I think that's just their three places that they well maybe they split up Romania and Moldova. But I would I definitely want to go back to Romania and Philippines for sure.

unknown 22:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

If you could take one person with you that didn't go, who would you take? Because you got quite a few people in your family who haven't gone quite a few few people you know who haven't experienced it. Let's say you're going back to exactly the same place with the same experiences. Out of everybody you know who hasn't been on on a missions trip, who would be like your top pick on who you want to take with you because you think it would do good in their life.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

I think Colin is kind of the next step to go on a missions trip with me. I think so.

SPEAKER_02 22:53

That's right, bud, better get ready.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

Well you just got to look at all the factors of so it's not just the missions trip. It's like okay who do I think would do well on a missions trip? And then you got to go kind of work it backwards. Who doesn't have a child? Who is you know not married? Who is not in school? I'm just saying like when you go down those because I 19th to the 28th I was gone. That's not you know it's not a three or four day thing. That's like 10 days. That's nine or 10 days. So I think about I think about that too when I think about somebody going and being able to go and financially being able to go and take the time off to go. Again, you know he works here and if he's going with me on the mission strip guess what he gets that time off where some people have to take off work or miss school or you know so it's that's I think that's why he'd probably be next up if you ready for all that?

SPEAKER_01 23:50

I I think it's in my future. I can see it.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

I like it I think I think it'd be a good kind of grounding I think would be one thing obviously um expanding in your faith too but just kind of grounding yourself because like you talked about at the beginning they just there's so much stuff we take for granted yeah um day-to-day life that going there I think would give me a better appreciation for my life and what I've got so yeah yeah yeah I think it would be I haven't figured out what which one yet um but I think Romania Ukraine would be a good one hey I can hoop better than this guy knows thinks he can hoop so you're gonna be in the Philippines then not doing it they the kids in the then Romania Moldova not basketball players they will smoke you in soccer though I don't know about all that yeah no they're breaking both ankles messy type they know messy you say messy there was a kid that was like seven that kept bullying me he's like let's go come on you dragging me out there he's just doing all the soccer stuff I finally just picked him up and took off running with him and kicking the ball I want my shot I'm getting this they are serious but basketball no shot basketball phines they have a basketball team in the Philippines they sponsor with with Caleb and he is nonprofit sponsors and they won like the championship there. I think I remember seeing that on Facebook yeah that's who we played against me Ricky and William played against those three guys it was just it was ridiculous bro I was tired back hurting yeah I I think Colin would be be next up if if Kaylee would let him depending on where we went because she wants to go back to Romania. So three people can't go depends on who's running it I mean usually eight to ten total people is a is a missing missions trip logistically because it's just it's a lot to keep track of people. Yeah get everything set up make sure everything's in order and rental cars and rooms and it takes a lot to put on so I'll I'll start planning for the Philippines now that I'm back I'll start planning for the Philippines trip. Which is easier because Caleb picks you up him and his people pick you up and take you take you to uh to his house and that's where you stay at so it's not quite as bad but you know Romania we fly into Bucharest and then we stayed the night in Bucharest and we got up the next morning and we drove to well as we back up we got into Bucharest and went and loaded up a bunch of potatoes and some other things and then on the way to Roshini I think is how they say it we stopped three or four different times and unloaded food and then you know got done with that and then spent a couple days there and then a full day of travel from Romania to Moldova. It's just a lot. Yeah um I just I think we've hit a lot of the trip itself I go back to people going on missions trips. I don't think it's for everybody and that's okay. That doesn't make you any better or any worse Christian missions need to be done and and have to be done it's God's work we got to go over and feed the poor and we've got to get to a point in our life if if that's our calling that we can financially contribute to those those particular missions. That's the other that's the flip side for me is like I financially contribute to both of these I haven't to Moldova but I will now that I'm back and I've seen the missions and see what they do I want to give financially to them because I know that helps just as much a couple hundred dollars like well yeah I'll take that back when we were in Moldova before we got there was part of their missions people I part part of the church I don't remember Dylan said hey they need some uh gardening tools and some other tools for their carpentry can you you know 500 bucks and I said yeah well so we all split it and whatever but um I think that it's it's time it's it's financials but it is all worth it to go over there and be able to I preached the word to 150 adults that only probably four of them really knew English and the rest of it it was interpreted and I go and I sat down I'm sitting next to three inmates and I sat down to next to the one and he knows English and he said thank you that was very inspiring and shook my hand that's when you're like I'm I'm I'm here for the right reasons and it was a it was a lot of work to get into the prison because we had two or three boxes of sweet bread we took in like 150 Cokes and then we had a full-on guitar speaker mixer system like we had to take all that in and you had to do it one at a time they had to wand you they had to carry I mean it was you know quite a process just to get into the prisons but everything I think that you do on a missions trips for a reason. Now the flip side of missions trips and doing God's work and I didn't experience it last time but I experienced it this time was the spiritual warfare that led up to the missions trip. Like I don't know if you guys remember like the two weeks before that I had a real estate deal go bad stuff happened that never happened before people have worse things than that happened. So you got to be prepared for that too that spiritual warfare will come with you going over there. Very real very real. Like I this one I experienced it but and being gone you know I missed your mom I missed you guys I missed being here but it makes it so much more rewarding when you do it and that I mean I didn't have to get up today and come in and see you guys. I probably didn't have to come in until afternoon but I wanted to get up you know it was it was just it was like a refresh of life so we get so you know mechanical and daunting and uh you know groundhog day right and so you go over there and you just throw everything off and you you maybe skip a shower or you wear the same clothes or I was wearing dirty clothes where right so it didn't really matter. I didn't even prepare for church I wore what I wore flew over there in to church because I didn't really think that went out very well um but then you get to come back and you're tired but you look at life completely different you look at look at life completely different I remember the first time I went your mom's like I told her I said it was life changing she's like in what way I'm like I don't know I can't describe it like not that I'm gonna say things differently but mentally in your heart and your soul and your mind it changes you every time that you go you get to come back and you know look at this look at the sky different you look at people different you look at the things that you have different you drive up to your your nice house differently you get in your nice truck differently you actually want to come back and sell everything is what you want to do you just want to be like I'm gonna sell everything I'm becoming a minimalist I can do it I'm gonna sell all this stuff off and get out of there but it is I think it's a great big refresh button for people who go do missions and I would suggest it to anyone if you ask it's you're not gonna just wake up and be excited to go 10 days and spend three or four of those behind a window in a van traveling you know you're not gonna that's not the exciting part but I I would just do it. It's hard it's not vacation and most people you know when they go on those missions trips that you have to use their vacation to go on the missions trips. If it's up to me I think your work would should say hey if you're gonna go on a missions trip go on a missions trip we'll give you the time off you know what I mean I think they should do that but that's just me personally if you're gonna go over there and do that kind of work but yeah I would I would just think it's just a big refresh button when you come back and you're just like look at life differently well when you can keep your eyes open not being tired this is had a coffee and energy drink and this is another coffee to get me through the day here or have a heart attack one of the two one of the two goodness but no um yeah so I'm I'm appreciative that I have the life that I do that allows me the means to the time and the means to be able to go over there and do that and it's all because God has put me in this position to do that. It's all because God has helped me build these businesses that I've built and to be successful it's it's it's all God period that's it and when you get to you know get to go over there and do those missions trips that's all God period like they'll be like hey you're gonna talk today huh you know what what am I gonna talk well when you get up there you start flowing you figure it out you figure it out to the flow state yeah you can get to the flow state the whole the Holy Spirit just he will he he'll the Holy Spirit will line you out and give you the words to say so I'm just super thankful that I get to do it that I get to go and I get to you know I'm gonna I got a team back here that's holding it down a family that's back here that's holding it down so I'm just real thankful that I get to do it and get to keep it God centered. Doesn't mean I'm perfect doesn't mean I'm not gonna say another cuss word doesn't mean you know that none of that stuff I'm not that guy I don't I don't I don't know I just don't believe that that's how life works sure I would like to not say another cuss word but it's probably gonna happen. Especially on the golf course the golf course is the golf course is a different like yeah like what happens on the golf course stays on the golf course absolutely absolutely yeah we'll be out there we'll sure hear a few cuss words on Friday but no overall great experience thankful that God allows me to do it gives me the times and the means I guess I have one more question.

SPEAKER_01 34:14

Yeah if somebody listened this far and they're like well missions trips are not for me but I want to help how could somebody help?

SPEAKER_00 34:23

That's actually a great question because I have I'd get a hold of me because I also have people who've already said that to me like I would like to go on the missions trips. Don't know if I can but I would definitely like to get involved so I won't like name names but I will say that close to half the people that went to Romania and Moldova were sponsored they raised money or money was given to them to purchase the the the trip and the things that they needed. And they were vocal about it like you know they they were vocal about like I I tried to raise money instead people just gave me money. So don't ever let the money part deter you from going on a missions trip. God will provide for the missions trip if that's what you're calling is but if anybody is interested in helping obviously I got you know the connection with the church that you know can can help fund that and I might even be the one funding it you know I I would like to I've I've I have funded somebody before to a to a missions trip and I have already offered the plane ticket for somebody for the Philippines and then I've got a very successful friend who wants to go to the Philippines but if he doesn't he wants to sponsor somebody to go and he wants to give money to help.

SPEAKER_02 35:57

That's so awesome.

SPEAKER_00 35:59

So yeah get a hold of me holla at me holla at me so all right well I appreciate Colin for just thanks for having me hopping on here for just because it was kind of cool and very last minute and I appreciate you guys tuning in I love you guys remember God loves you too and I like and subscribe baby like subscribe comment question and uh look forward to the next one Robert the realist out