NATIONAL MESSIAH WORKSHOP TESTIMONY

By Jorg Heller, National Messiah for the Czech Republic

(Shortened by Claude Aubert)

Eve, Abel and Cain National Messiah

40 Day Workshop in the Pantanal

at Fuerte Olimpo in Paraguay.

Oct. 24th to Dec. 3rd 1998

As the Abel National Messiah for the Czech Republic I have

really struggled with the financial responsibilities that come

with that mission. In order to save some money to be able to

move to my mission country, I have purposely "bowed out" on

other occasions when Father has asked National Messiahs to

attend certain events. This may not have been the wisest

thing to do, however, if I ever wanted to go to my nation, I

could not see another way of doing it.

However, when Father asked the NMs to attend this

workshop, I felt deeply my heart that I absolutely had to

attend. Working at USA HQ, I got Dr. Hendricks' go-ahead.

Next I needed to get permission from Rev. Joong Hyun Pak

who was attending the workshop in Alaska. He came back

just in time to also give me the go-ahead.

Going South

I had heard horror stories about the poor living situations that

we might have to encounter. So I prepared as well as I could.

I bought mosquito nets and spray, after itch ointment,

diarrhea medicine, water purification tablets, German army

pants, French army desert boots and other small gadgets that

were supposed to keep me alive for 40 days. I even cut my

hair to about an inch length. I was ready to go and take on all

of South America.

It was about a 9 hour flight from New York's JFK to Sao Paulo.

>From there I switched airplanes and went on to Campo

Grande. At the Campo Grande bus depot, I ran into some

brothers who had just arrived from Sao Paulo via bus. They

had been on the bus for 16 hours and it had been somewhat

tiring. We met up with some Canadians who were headed in

the same direction. It would take us another 4 hours to arrive

at our destination.

The bus was not air-conditioned, the roads were very rough

and the heat was almost too much for us cold blooded

Northerners. We stopped in 4 or 5 small cities to pick up or

drop off some passengers. An army of "fundraisers" would

attack us with ice-cold drinks, bread and souvenirs at every

stop.

One stop before Jardim all of us got off the bus. Here we were

to call Jardim for someone to pick us up. No one knew exactly

what to do. I tried to ask one of the local ladies, but of course

she did not speak any English. Sign language had to suffice.

All of the sudden this lady became very excited and she

pointed to my Blessing Ring. She grabbed my hand and said

with a bright shining face, pointing to my ring "Me too, Me

too." She bowed several times while she was strongly shaking

my hand. Apparently she had been pre-blessed and was very

happy about it. She called for us and after about 30 minutes

our pick-up came. By now it was about 9 pm and it was quite

dark.

Soon we arrived at the New Hope Garden of Eden Estate. In

the office we were assigned rooms in two different buildings.

The buildings were just beautiful. The craftsmanship seen

here was of the highest order. The rooms were quite

comfortable, with 2 beds, an air conditioner and a shower

that could produce warm and hot water.

Up the River, Fuerte Olimpo

At 3 am we boarded a bus that took us to the Paraguay River

where we arrived at around 7 am. Three "Go Boats" awaited

us to take us up the river. We went across from the Brazilian

to the Paraguayan side of the river, a trip of about 100 yards.

Here we stopped at the "immigration" building. A piece of

architecture that looked very much like a barn or a stable.

Soon we were cleared to go, and off we went up the river to

Fort Olimpo, a trip that took us all of three-and-a-half hours.

I was the first one off the boat and when I asked where we

were going from here, I was told that "this was it," we had

arrived at our destination. Well, to most of us this was

surprising news. Many of us thought that we would end up

somewhere in the bushes in a tent far away from even the

remotest pieces of civilization. Now we were not really

unhappy that we got to stay in a solid building in the middle

of a fair sized town of about 5000 people.

It was somewhat of a culture shock for me to see how people

lived here. Most of the buildings were made from raw palm

tree logs. The spaces between the logs did not seem to bother

the inhabitants. There were windows, but no windowpanes.

There was an opening to access the cabin, but in most cases

there were no doors. It was interesting to see that 90% of the

cabins that had electricity also had a TV satellite dish about 6

feet in diameter.

Because it was so warm, everything was out in the open. The

main streets were paved with hardened sand/gravel and clay

mix. The side streets are just the regular clay, asphalt seemed

to be unknown in this part of the country. When it rains, the

side streets are impossible to travel on. Everything gets

flooded quite badly and to move around after a heavy

rainstorm was not easy.

Domestic animals had the freedom to roam wherever they

wanted. No one kept them in check, the chicken, dogs, pigs,

sheep, goats, donkeys, cows and horses were always to be

seen in every area imaginable.

The River of Life

Life for the local people seemed very relaxed. I could not

figure our how they made a living. Some families just survive

by what they grow in their gardens and what they can fish in

the river. Those families are free to fish all year round, while

the more "well off" families are not allowed to fish during the

off season which is the whole summer, from mid December to

mid March.

The river is the center of life in this town. The locals come

here to bathe, wash their laundry and get their water supply

for their homes. Those who live nearby carry the water by the

pail full into house. Others come with a big barrel on top of a

mule drawn cart to get their supply. I could now much easier

understand why major civilization always developed around a

river. We ourselves had a pump floating out on the river,

about 40 feet from the shore. This pump would fill the water

tanks located on the top of a type of scaffold rising above the

roof of our building. From here the water would by gravity

flow into our showers, toilets and washbasins.

As long as we had electricity, we had water. If the electricity

failed, some of us went the way of the locals to wash up and

do our laundry directly in the river. Electricity would usually

fail during a major thunderstorm. We had quit a few of those

and thus we were without electricity quite a few times.

There was initially some apprehension about going into the

river because of the piranhas. We have been educated,

mainly through movies that these ferocious fish eat anything

that crosses their path and has some meat on their bones. But

all the children of the town could be found in the evening

swimming in the river, having a grand old time.

It did not take me and some of the others long to shake the

fear of swimming with the piranhas. Rev. Zin Moon Kim went

swimming for the first time in the river about a week or so

before the workshop ended. This certainly broke a barrier for

the Japanese NM and many of them took the risk to also brave

the river from that time on.

Greeting True Parents

Everyone came to the river to greet Father and Mother as they

returned from fishing, applauding and cheering as their boat

came in. This would become a regular occurrence and the

"main event" for us to greet True Parents whenever they

returned from fishing every evening.

Mother usually would bring her boat in earlier then Father. It

would still be daylight and on a couple of occasions we were

able to take pictures with her in a very close setting. One

evening Mother was especially happy, because she caught

five big and beautiful Bacus. "I fulfilled my mission today,"

she said proudly with a big smile on her face.

We all were very happy for Mother and it felt like we were

just one big family at that time. Father stayed out longer. His

boat would not pull in until after dark. When Father got off

the boat he generally was very serious but he never forgot to

smile when we greeted him. Father quickly got into the car

and went home. We dearly missed that "close in and warm"

type of feeling we had at "the homecoming" reception of

True Parents after they left.

Real Fish

All we could do that day was to prepare our fishing gear for

the next day. Rev. Chang from Canada, a graduate of the

Koran NM Workshop briefed us, gave us some tips and

showed us the four types of fish we were supposed to catch.

1. Boga = like a Carp, 2. Suruby = a mix between a shark and

a catfish, 3. Bacu, 4. Dorado. The Boga had to be 38

centimeters long, the Suruby 100 cm, the Bacu 40 cm and the

Dorado 55 cm. Anyone of these fish had to be thrown back

into the river it they did not measure up, however, they could

be counted towards the 160 fish total.

In the evening at 9 pm we had Hoon Dok Hae with True

Parents. Father asked Mother to pray to officially open the "40

Day Special National Messiah Workshop in the Pantanal."

After Mother's prayer one Korean sister, Won Joo McDevitt,

read from a book that was published on the first of October of

this year called "Life of the Mind and Soul" Love Stories by

True Father. The book was read in Korean and of course most

of us could not understand what was being read. True Parents

knew this so Mother suggested to us that we would have to

"tune in spiritually" to understand what is going on. We

retired for the day at around 10:30 pm. Tomorrow, Monday

would be the big day, our first day of fishing.

The First Day of Fishing

Wake up call was at 4:30 am. Breakfast at 5. At 5:30 am we

got ready to go out. Some local people provided the bait.

Each person got 10 fish to use as bait. By 6 am we were on our

way to our fishing grounds. It had been explained to us that

for the first week we should get used to the heat and the

fishing gear and learn how to fish from the riverbank of the

Paraguay River. Then, after a week we would be able to use

the boats and go out on the river. There were 41 of us and we

had plenty of small boats to go around to have space

everyone.

Four teams were made and each team went of by foot to their

respective "fishing grounds." A Japanese Team Leader was

assigned to each team. Each brother was armed with his

fishing rod, tackle box, big rubber boots, a hat, sunglasses

and sunscreen. It was somewhat awkward at first, dealing

with all this equipment and one had to watch out not to get

whacked by an errand fishing rod.

At first, everyone kept a save distance from each other, so as

not to be caught by a hook from an apprentice heavenly

fisherman. After a couple of days we had all become experts

and we could cast our lines in quite a professional manner.

The Heat is On

The early morning hours were very beautiful and quite cool.

As the sun rose toward its zenith, however, it got hotter and

hotter. It was not easy at first to get used to the heat. After

8am you were sweating all the time, even if you were just

sitting still. It was impossible to take off your shirt, because

the sun would burn you to shreds. A wide brim hat, a good

pair of sunglasses, and sun block lotion was an absolute must

for everyone. The sun was so bright and you would get the

light not only from up above but also from down below,

reflecting from the water surface. This was very intense on

the face, especially the nose. It was wise to cover up as much

of your body as possible. The hands suffered the most,

especially the area between the thumb and the pointer.

>From the beginning I had the urge to jump into the water and

cool down, but on that first day I saw a crocodile lazily

floating down the river. On top of that, the only fish we were

catching were piranhas. So it just did not seem a very good

idea to go swimming at that time.

Our team did not catch any "real" fish that day. The only real

fish in the river were the fish that Father wanted us to catch,

the bacu, boga, dorado and the suruby. Other teams had

similar results. At 6 pm we packed up our gear and walked

back to the property. Here we could prepare for the next day

and get ready for dinner at 7:30 pm. Dinner was the big meal

of the day. The food was good; Servings consisted of rice,

kimchee, vegetables, beef, fish or chicken, soup and fruit.

The local people supplied everything. We just wondered who

was buying the cows. The beef was not so tender and it took

quite some effort to chew it into a pulp safe enough to

swallow.

Getting Personal with True Parents

After dinner we would just get ready for a 9 pm Hoon Dok Hae

meeting with True Parents. This meeting took place in a small

hall next to our sleeping quarters, about 18 feet wide and 55

feet long. Father and Mother would sit on a love seat, a small

couch just big enough for the two of them. It was a very

intimate setting and I felt very close to True Parents. True

Father and True Mother were much more relaxed and

informal during our time together. Father told us one evening

that the time to have a close personal relationship with true

Parents has come.

We all should have a close relationship with True Parents.

Many times in the past I have thought about what it would

take to have such a relationship with Father and Mother. On

what foundation can such a relationship really happen?

Since, as regular Western members we do not have the

opportunity to physically be close to them, it could only be

done through a lot of prayer and by closely following Father's

directions and fulfill them. Walking the path Father has

walked and feeling the things Father has felt when he walked

the course would make Father a more real and personal

Father. Now I have tried to do that to the best of my ability

and I feel that sometimes I have succeeded and at other times

I have not.

Many times in the past I imagined in my mind to meet Father

and Mother in person, just the three of us. What would it be

like? What would we be talking about? What could I say to

True Parents? Could I carry on a conversation that would be

an inspiration to True Parents? I did not feel confident about

that. Certainly I have not done anything great to talk about. I

found myself in a somewhat insecure, uncomfortable,

unworthy and even fearful mood during these mental

encounters.

The Second Day of Fishing

On our first fishing day, Monday, the 26th of October Father

had invited four Japanese brothers to join him at breakfast.

He spoke to the brothers very seriously for about two hours.

When the breakfast meeting with Father was finished, he

assigned these four Japanese brothers to be the team leaders

and told them to share the content of the speech with the

team. The former team leaders would become their

assistants. When the Japanese brother explained this to us I

felt that we were in for a very serious experience. This

speech definitely set the tone for me for the rest of the

workshop.

Father's Words, Fort Olimpo

Breakfast Meeting with four Japanese National Messiahs

am - October 26th 1998

(These notes were taken by one of the four Japanese NM in

attendance who shared them with us)

Father was quite angry that only so few National Messiahs

came (at that time there were 41 one of us). He could not

imagine that the travel expense and the workshop fee would

keep anyone from coming here. Father is hitting the table

angrily as he speaks "I brought Heavenly Father and the

National Messiahs here. But only so very few came. The

workshop loses its meaning with such few NM. Maybe we

should cancel it.

I have been teaching absolute faith, love and obedience. To

what effect? Especially the Japanese should come. We have

to save the world. Japan will be punished if they don't unite

with Father and follow.

Paraguay is the center of South America. The American

government and even the Communists have an office in

Ascencion. Paraguay and Uruguay are very important in God's

Providence here in South America. Father addressed the

Brazilian Congress and spoke out for religious freedom. He

explained to them that there should be unity between the

Catholics and the Protestants and South America and North

America.

Right now only 400 million people live in South America.

However, there is enough space here to support 8 billion

people. But the countries are not united and there is much

corruption. If Paraguay and Brazil can unite, the Pantanal

centered on Jardim can become the center of the world. In

the rainy season, land twice the size of Japan will all be

submerged under the water. Clean water is most important in

the future. We will provide water from the Pantanal to the

whole world. If we control the water, we can control the

world.

Ever since WW II and more so right now, pollution is

destroying the world. If we continue at the same pace, within

300 years, the world will be finished, totally polluted. The UN

actually should protect the natural resources of the world, but

they are not doing it. Thus we must do it. We must hold

workshops to research nature and figure out how to protect it.

If we can do it, everyone will respect us. We must protect

True Parents most of all.

One million Japanese are living in Brazil. That is a pretty

strong foundation and we should work with them. Japan is

beginning to accept True Parents. 120 Japanese Blessed

Families have to go to each of the 185 nations. They worship

too many false gods including a female god . Japan has faced

an incredible crisis in 1988 and it has been engulfed in total

darkness. 12 Korean Blessed Families each have to also go to

185 nations. This is the last Providence. The entire Japanese

property must be given to the world. Eventually 40 million

people should migrate to the 185 nations in the future.

Communism is gone now as a governmental system, but it is

still expanding on the individual and family levels. Catholics,

Protestants and the Jewish people have all welcomed Father.

The National Messiahs are the eternal King of their nation.

No one believes that we can be victorious in the 360 million

Blessing. 160 of your relatives should become missionaries.

Germany, USA and Japan must unite in doing that. The

Japanese missionaries absolutely have to stay in their mission

country. They should not return home whenever they want.

Japanese currency will only be paper soon, without value.

Thus spend the money now. Even if Japan disappears, it'sall

right as long it has helped others. We must swallow and

digest everything.

The June 13th Blessing was a big turning point. Now we must

love our enemies. Why do NM complain about the money to

come here. Why do the NM not come here, this determines

their eternal life. I am very lonely, no one understands me.

Confucius is of Korean descent. Japan is the only oceanic

island nation still in God's Providence. In Japan you are

allowed to marry your cousin, but you should not do it.

Fish and alligators can swallow good and bad. That is the

spirit of the Pantanal. At the June 13th 1998 Blessing good

and bad, head and tail united. Saints and Assassinators all

were saved together. There are no more enemies.

The spirit of the Pantanal is that of the last Settlement. We

must go over all satanic positions. The Pantanal has the

blessing of land and water. Now it must unite with True

Parents. Father made so many indemnity conditions and thus

he could open the 12 gates of Heaven and liberate hell. The

suffering course Father went through can not be compared

with the suffering of Adam. Father'slife has been absolutely

miserable. The first four Providential Nations did not accept

Father and thus they are suffering. Constantly Father had to

make indemnity conditions to save the world.

Kim Il Sung believed in Father as the savior. He shook hands

with Father and thus the birthright of the elder brother was

restored to the heavenly side. Then True Parents restored the

parental right and the King position. Based on Father's ability

to set up the elder son nation. The 6000 year history was

restored and now we can go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Kim

Jung IL also respects True Parents because of the influence

Father has in the east. We must now create unity between

the Tribal Messiahs and the National Messiahs. Some

Japanese complain, but they do not understand the value.

They can become huge trees in front of Adam. Eve can not

insist of her position. We have to unite and be sincere before

True Parents.

Eve has to offer three generations. Japanese members have to

sell their homes and land and go to the world. Taiwan, the

Philippines and Canada are to support Japan. These 40 days

are important for you to unite with True Parents. Please make

a strong effort to unite with True Parents and True Children.

[end part I]

(These notes are very spotty and some of Father'swords have

been lost due to lack of understanding and translation.)

The brother who shared his notes of Father's speech with us

also told us that True Parents would continue having

breakfast meetings with four different Japanese brothers

every day. For dinner, True Parents will invite four western

members. That was quite exciting, having dinner with True

Parents in a very personal way.

Where is Heaven's Nation

After everything was said and done, we got ready to go out

fishing. As we walked to our fishing area, I reflected on

Father's words. The spirit behind them was so serious and I

was somewhat taken aback. I could feel a sense of

desperation and urgency that I have never felt before. I can

not describe this feeling with words. Does Father feel this

way as well? Probably so and much more. Heavenly Father

needs a sovereign nation, a nation He can govern centered

on True Parents and establish the pattern and Heavenly

Traditions that would be the foundation for the Kingdom of

Heaven on Earth. If we have that one True Nation, then very

soon two more True Nations could arise. This would be the

foundation for the rest of the world to come under God's

dominion.

This was all to take place centered on a united Korea. The

New Hope East Garden should have been established at

Chung Pyung Lake, not at Jardim. The one True Nation

should have been one united Korea. From there the Kingdom

should have spread throughout the world. Only because

America, Japan and Korea rejected their heavenly mandate

and failed to accept True Parents does Father now have to go

to plan "B." That is the South American Providence. Father is

so amazing, so wise, he learned from Jesus' mistake. Jesus did

not have a backup plan and thus he eventually ended up on

the cross. Already, in the early 1970'sFather began to lay the

foundation in South America for his secondary plan.

Father is building God's True Nation in South America. No

nation in the satanic world accepted Father direction to

become a True Nation, thus, Father has to build his own True

Nation. That is the reason why Father is buying so much land

in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Up to this point Father has

bought 40,000 hectares. The long-range goal is to buy

150,000 hectares (one hectare is 2.47 acres or 10 square

kilometers). That is a lot of land, but still, I am sure that Father

wants even more than that.

The Guide

Our second day of fishing was not more successful than the

first. However, one brother on our team who spoke Spanish

quite well, convinced a local boot fisherman to take us in his

boat to some of the better fishing grounds in the area the next

day. I was looking forward to it. This would make fishing

somewhat more interesting.

All ten of us jumped into the small boat that was powered by a

small diesel engine. There was just enough space for

everyone. We went on a half an hour cruise up a small side

arm of the river.

Man it'sHot

As the day went on it became unbearably hot, my hands were

all swollen up because of their exposure to the sun. I had no

energy, every move I made seemed to be in slow motion. I

lost three or four hooks in the river and not even the piranhas

were biting. It was a challenging time, but I did not want to

give up. I fought myself through this sluggishness to the best

of my ability. Even putting the bait on the hook seemed to be

a task to difficult to face. I felt like putting down the fishing

rod for a while and take a break. But thinking about Father

and how hard he worked, I just could not do it. I felt it was

important to continue fishing. However, I lost some of my

focus during that stretch of time but I never gave up.

Shortly after we returned to our home base, it was announced

that True Mother was on her way in. We all rushed to the

boat landing area (a pier is in the planning stages) where

basically the boats are run ashore, and passengers are walked

off the boat on a wide and strong plank. When True Mother

stepped on shore, she had a big smile on her face and said "I

fulfilled my mission today!" Her boat crew lifted 5 big Bacu's

off the boat, beautiful fish. True Mother was obviously very

happy. She stayed around for some time to take many

pictures with us.

Hoon Dok Hae in the evening was always a good experience.

Being so close to Father and Mother was always an

inspiration, even if we could not understand what was going

on. True Parents were usually very relaxed. At one point

Father took off his socks and encouraged everyone who

wanted to, to do the same.

Today was the day three brothers and I were to meet True

Parents in their private dining room over dinner. I was still

somewhat apprehensive but all throughout the day I made an

effort to clear my mind of all that had troubled me in the past

and put it behind me. If there ever was a good day to catch a

fish, this would be the day. At least if Father or Mother asked,

then the answer could at least be "yes," I caught a fish today.

So all my focus for the day went to catching that fish. The

boat took us to our regular spot. After an hour and a half or so,

a Canadian brother caught a suruby, 52 cm long. It was too

short, thus it had to get back into the water. However, it

counted toward the goal of the 160 fish we were supposed to

catch.

Candle Light Dinner with True Parents

So there was hope for more fish to be in that river. Our team

had never caught this kind of fish before. About half an hour

later, a fish struck my line. It did not feel like a piranha or a

catfish. And I was right; I pulled out a beautiful suruby, 53 cm

long. Also much too short, but anyway I was happy to have

caught at least one "real" fish as we called the 4 types of fish

Father wanted us to catch.

On our way back home in the boat my thoughts moved ahead

and I tried to prepare myself for the dinner with True Parents.

I did not want to take negative, fearful or shameful feeling to

the dinner table. I totally emptied my heart, so as not to bring

a disturbing atmosphere to dinner. Rev. Zin Moon Kim had

arrived earlier that day. At dinnertime he told us that he had

to cut one person. He did not give any reason for it. Eventually

the time came to enter the Dining Room. We gave one full

bow to True Parents and sat down. There were only seven

chairs and we were eight people. Thus one more brother had

to leave the room. Rev. Zin Moon Kim and Rev. Eu who had

been working a long time in South America and another

Korean brother joined the dinner table. That left only two

chairs for us. The Abel National Messiah to Ireland and myself

ended up having dinner with True Parents. However, the

dinner became some sort of a business meeting, Rev. Kim

spoke for about ten minutes and then Rev. Eu took over. He

spoke for about half an hour. In the meantime, the two of us

quietly ate our dinner. We did not know what was going on

and thus felt somewhat out of place.

But the setting was still very beautiful. We did not have any

electricity on that day and thus we had a candle light dinner.

I was sitting at the end of the table opposite from Father.

Mother was sitting to Father'sleft. She did not speak at all.

Father seemed very tired but he made a big effort to pay

attention to Rev. Kim and Rev. Eu. He looked at me a couple

of times with a subtle smile on his face. All I could do is smile

back. After about 40 minutes the dinner came to an end. I

was somewhat disappointed. It would have been nice to be

able to exchange even just a few words with Father. An

opportunity like that may never present itself.

On Friday evening, October 30th, our 6th day of fishing, at

Hoon Dok Hae Father has Rev. Zin Moon Kim show us some

architectural drawings of buildings that will be build both in

Jardim and Fort Olimpo. There were 26 types of buildings,

beautifully designed, Shopping Malls, Stores, Family Living

Quarters, Gymnasiums, Schools and a Condominium. The

Condominium will be will be build to house four families from

four nations who will be able to live together and raise each

other'schildren. This project is scheduled to be completed in

3 years.

Good By Fishing ­ Hello Construction

We were told that Saturday, October 31, 1998 would be our

last day of fishing. The fishing season ended on that day.

There would be no fishing for the next three months. This

was a great disappointment for all of us, but there was

nothing we could do. We were just getting ourselves into the

right "fishing zone" and we were looking forward to try our

fishing skills from the boats. However, it was not to be. We

became construction workers from that point on. Rev. Kim

told us that the central focus of the workshop was to review

our life in the church, repent, and make a determination to

live a life of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute

obedience. It would have probably be easier doing that while

watching the tip of a fishing pole, rather than swinging a

sledgehammer or a shovel.

Our schedule changed drastically from Sunday, November 1,

1998. From 7 am to 10 am we had a work assignment. From

10 am to 2 pm was siesta time. The temperature during that

time could get up to 110º Fahrenheit. From 2 pm to 5 pm we

had two study periods. The first one was usually a testimony,

in the second period Rev. Zin Moon Kim would give us a

lecture or some internal guidance. At 5 pm we would be on

work assignment again until 7 pm. Free time 'til 9 pm. At 9 pm

we had a Hoon Dok Hae session for one hour and at 10 pm it

was testimony time again.

Even though I missed the fishing, I was quite happy with this

schedule. Father had given directions that everyone should

give their testimony. To be able to hear testimonies from all

the workshop participants was so very precious. I learned so

much during the testimony time. The National Messiahs from

Japan were a very close bunch of brothers. Most of them

joined at around the same time and knew each other quite

well. There was a sort of camaraderie there that was unique.

I felt that this would help to create stronger unity among the

nations.

Fixing up our Property

The work details we received were all centered on our

property. By this time more Japanese National Messiahs had

arrived. The second group never had a chance to go fishing.

We had about eight teams of ten per team. Every morning

and every afternoon we lined up "army style" to get our work

assignment.

We dug holes, set poles, build fences, laid foundations, dug

trenches, laid wires, moved rocks, broke down walls, pulled

weeds, poured cement, sawed logs, fixed tools, laid water

pipes, installed a water pump, drained ditches, fixed the

plumbing, built a boat landing ramp, swept the yard, crushed

rocks, painted walls, moved doors, laid floors, installed clothe

lines, pulled boats out of the water, put boats into the water.

This type of work was quite a contrast from what I was used

to, working in the office at the Continental HQ in New York.

Soon I had blisters on both of my hands. They were somewhat

painful but I ignored the pain and continued digging. I wanted

to give all that I had and not hold back even a little bit.

Building the First True Nation

During the 30 days we did the construction work, I felt I was

laying a foundation not only for my mission country, the

Czech Republic, but also for the new nation. The first True

Nation of Heaven and Earth which True Parents are building

at this very moment.

If there was a tough job to do, I wanted to be the first doing

it. There were many brothers to work but not enough space to

work at times. A "replacement system" developed very

naturally. Everyone on the team wanted to work hard but not

all could work at the same time, thus we had to take turns.

Three or four brother would be working and the others would

be watching. After ten minutes of hard work usually someone

slowed down somewhat, usually a sign of fatigue. As soon as

that happened he was asked to step aside and someone else

would continue until they slowed down.

The Center of the Providence

I could sense that I was at the center of the Providence right

here in South America. True Parents are doing something so

huge here, it is mind boggling. They are building God's first

True Nation. Who is going to live on this land? People from all

nations around the world should come and settle here.

Especially the Japanese people, Father wants to bring all of

them here. I am sure Father would like to take the North

Koreans and have them settle here as well. People from every

nation should make up God'sTrue Nation. Father wants to

make a deal with the government of Brazil and Paraguay to

have 20,000 members immigrate to those countries soon. He

needs that number of people just to get things started.

Father has also allotted a strip of 50 km to every one of the

186 nations. It was not made clear how wide that strip would

be. Those parcels of land have already been assigned through

lottery in Ascencion on True Children'sDay on November

19th. A map is being prepared to clearly identify the land for

each nation. The land is placed along three rivers, the

Amazon, the Paraguay River and the Parana River. Rev.

Moon, the National Messiah of Paraguay drove his 4 wheeler

very hard in order to bring the results to Fort Olimpo before

our workshop ended. He had to face bad weather and muddy

roads. The trip from Ascencion usually takes 2 days, but

because of the bad road conditions it took him 4 days. Many

times he had to use the winch in front of the vehicle to pull it

out of the mud. He made it just in time, arriving about 3 hours

before we had to leave.

Most of Fathers activities are centered on and around the

Paraguay River. So it was only natural that in my heart I

desired to have my country'sland, the Czech Republic,

located at that River. And that is just the way it worked out.

Both the USA and the Czech Republic had their parcel of land

assigned at the Paraguay River.

Counting my Blessings

Father had told us on the first day of the workshop, that the

blessings we would receive from this workshop would only

become clear to us some day in the future. Well, I believed

that, but on top of that I could count the blessings that I knew

I had already received. I had become much healthier

physically. The hard work, had strengthened me substantially

and I lost at least 15 pounds. Drinking so much liquid, and

sweating so much had cleaned my body out and I felt much

better than before.

Going swimming just about every day helped me a lot too. It

was great exercise. I came to the realization that I should

definitely exercise more when I get back to New York. I did

not realize how weak I had been at the beginning of the

workshop.

Spiritually I felt the workshop at Fort Olimpo had a similar

effect as the workshop in Chung Pyung. I was also cleaned

spiritually. Some heavy weights had been lifted off my shoulders.

I became a much "lighter person," I gained greater spiritual

strength and confidence and I felt I have been given greater

authority over the satanic world. This had absolutely been the

most rewarding and exiting workshop I participated in and I

will never forget this experience.

I had the chance to snoop around the True Family Workshop

in Jardim for two evenings. All the buildings were so beautiful

and maintained so well. Lectures were taking place for the

Japanese, Korean and Western members all at the same time,

but in different locations. Rev. and Mrs. Joong Hyun Pak,

Continental Directors of North America were in the last week

of their True Family workshop when I arrived there. The spirit

was very calm and relaxed. About 2000 members were in

attendance at that time.

I hope that the spirit world will help me and my family to

make it possible to attend the True Family Workshop in

Jardim, the New Hope Garden of Eden.

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