Tariffs, Miracles, and MAHA

John Hewlett is a regular on the Show. Today, we talk about tariffs, are they effective?, real miracles in Samoa, and MAHA. Great discussion!

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love having john hullet on as a guest good friend knows an awful lot about a lot of things knows a lot of people he's
going to go over some miracles that have happened out in the polynesian islands with a church we're going to talk a little bit about politics and of course
he's the founder of cardio miracle there are two things in my life that have made a huge difference in the way i feel each
and every day and in my labs my blood pressure and my gout and that is fasting
and cardio miracle i just went to egypt and turkey for two months didn't bring any cardio miracle with me big huge
mistake it really does make a difference go to quickdia.com and scroll down to the bottom and see a video on me talking
about how cardio miracle has changed things for me here we go
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welcome to quick show my name is greg matson and i am your host in this episode we bring back my friend john hwlet who's been gone for a couple
months just as i have been gone for a couple months out of the country john how are you doing hey greg i'm doing
great i i think i figured the other day i've been home seven days of the last hundred uh okay at my house uh been
really busy with a number of things uh did an extended um um south pacific
journey to some uh historical church sites that we're identifying and um and
then also just been really busy traversing the country at different conventions and meetings and things with
our our uh business our cardio miracle business which has been been eventful but boy i'll tell you it's it's nice to
be in your own bed um even when you stay at a decent hotel yeah you know i that
that's so i've i've been gone for very similar amount of time um so the longest
i've been gone away from my wife is a couple months and out in egypt and turkey i did not have a comfortable bed
at a nice hotel i'll tell you that i i felt like i was sleeping on a marble slab half the time the these how these
guys in you know in the middle east they're like i i don't understand it i really don't these beds are absolute
rocks it's uh i'm not sure what they're made of but uh i mean i like a firm mattress
you know but firm an american firmament and american you know you still have a little bit of give
the these the egyptian firm is very different i think that's because they all weigh less than 150 pounds and yeah
maybe that's it yeah i it doesn't doesn't impact them as much as people who have a little more girth than that
but uh yeah it's kind of like sleeping in a probably in a jail cell on a you
know i mean i i've i've talked to people that i know who served some time in prison and they used to gather the
cardboard when they could and put it underneath their little teeny mattress
to try to give them some semblance of comfort they said it was horrific it was like sleeping on a on you know straight
wood slab uh for those who have that unfortunate experience yeah yeah we uh
now we we get up and go all day long so we get pretty tired by the end of the night so we sleep anyway typically but
but yeah it's different the other thing i you know it's being gone that long out out of the country is really a i i lost
track of time i lost track of days i didn't know what i i most of the time i
had no clue what day it was and it didn't matter you know it just did it
just didn't matter what was going on and i had pulled myself out mostly of my business during the time and and and
running these tours and it it's uh well it's a lot of pre a lot of pressure being a tour guide really i mean you're
you're you're constantly you know it's kind of like uh being a bishop giving
your ward conference talk 247 i mean you're you're right everybody's watching
everything you do they everyone wants to ask you questions i mean you're totally it's it's like being a a a car salesman
with a never- ending stream of customers but that that want your attention but no
i i was the same way we were at sea for 26 days which was the longest we've ever
done it and and it was interesting because we left the day after the
inauguration uh because we had an inauguration event that we were involved in in washington
which was interesting uh but we left the day after and so many great things
happened in our country while we were gone in fact even during the process i
sold uh my house that i had been on the market for a number of months i mean so
many good things happened i kept turning to my wife and saying "maybe we should just stay at c things are going better
in every aspect of life." um and then i i but i have a great uh staff and team
running a lot like running the business and and doing things and and we had a a spiritual feast we we met some of the
greatest fellow latter-day saints and other people who we were able to talk to about the gospel and and then i i i want
to share with you the experiences in the south pacific of president john alexander nelson who in my opinion is
right up there with um brother groberg and matthew cali and all of the all the
great stories of the polynesian faith john alexander nelson um dr brad nelson
of the emotion code his grandfather had had some of the most amazing experiences
ever recorded in a missionary journal and uh we're actually working on a a
documentary of his life and mission experiences to help with the polynesian
faith and the faith of those people and with all of us who are nowadays uh you
know we're we're hungering and thirsting after priesthood miracles and uh things
to help bolster us through these challenging fiery darts of uh politics
and corruption in our government and everything else that we're all facing yeah and i want to get to that we're
going to give that in just a minute because i know there's some incredible stories there that that you want to share i want to go directly though to
something else and i want to get your thoughts on this u this is what i was thinking about when i when when i was
bringing you up on the uh on the interview i what is going to happen with
the tariffs john what are we doing with these tariffs what is it how's it going to go i've done some research on the
tariffs um it's something i'm unsure of uh where is it going is it are we just
pulling the band-aid off here and we've got a little bit of pain while we rip the band-aid off and then everything's
going to be fine well what's going to happen with the tariff you know i of course my my net worth is kind of like
one of the stars in the firmament compared to elon musk
and so the the reality is greg uh i've been in business and in finance and been
in a political observer literally since i was a a teenager i mean i used to read
two newspapers a day growing up mainly the sports section but i also caught a
lot of the politics but um you know we're trillions of dollars in debt
trillions we couldn't even relate people i remember back in 92 when uh ross perau
came out and said we can't keep keep up this trend or else we're all i voted for ross twice i i voted i i handed out ross
perau tapes in the 90s uh and and literally left my my republican
background to support ross perau's candidacy because i thought it was that desperate then that was in the early 90s
well this is so outrageous and the discoveries i mean i i every day say to
myself how can anyone think that musk and doge and
these billionaire guys who are helping him do this who are neglecting their
business who could be doing other things just like donald trump could be doing other things than taking bullets all day
long literally and figuratively to try to save our country how can we continue
on this path when we've had 20% inflation that was really possibly more
than that i mean they they they have jimmedi the numbers in the economic forecasts the and to see what us aid has
been funding and and looking at those literal things and now it's it's kind of
like when i first read the book the creature from jackal island and and anyone who's really interested in
understanding the federal reserve and our economy and the dollar should read that it's g edward griffin's uh seinal
work that that is so enlightened so uh libertarians and conservatives
because it talks about how the federal reserve was formed it was essentially a a financial cartel back in in 1918 17
and so when you look all of that in perspective it the tariffs i mean look
at what he's accomplished now the thing about it is it's kind of like having a a football coach or a personal trainer
who's kicking your fanny around the gym every day or yelling at you in your face
uh you know with their their veins bulging out trying to correct your behavior and we have been living on
borrowed time you you've traveled the world you see how the rest of the world
lives and you live in scottsdale arizona i live in uh the mountains of utah uh in
but the you know mir mirror lake area in the summer and i and st george in the
winter we we don't have the problems we we i've been in new york city and miami
and i'm like "oh my gosh janet and i even though new york has all you know
all kinds of excitement and good plays and everything else we walk down the street and we're
like who are we?" it's almost hard to even identify who we are as people when
you're in among that mass of humanity so many i mean people are yelling
profanities as they're walking down the street and people are putting mud all over their bodies as they're sitting
there naked on the sidewalk i mean it's we live in a crazy crazy world and those
of us in the west in these somewhat sane bubbles of humanity i don't think we
realize how perilous this situation is and personally i believe that you know
if people are sitting around that the biggest thing is that i find funny is that people are saying well my 401k or
the stock market look at the stock market well the stock market is the most overinflated overhyped
uh financial tool that is is out there and the reality is i remember uh four or
five years ago when people said it should never go over 20,000 should really be valued at 10,000 because when
you have real companies most of the companies that are drawing the dow down
are the speculative companies it's the pharmaceutical companies that have been
stealing us blind over the last six years the hospitals that are out of control with the health care costs it's
the uh ai companies it's the tech companies it's mainly the tech companies
and everything and they're having a modest adjustment because we're we're essentially cutting the we're saying to
people why when we have now not it was not more than a year or two ago people
are saying well we're probably unfunded liabilities of 90 billion now they're saying unfunded liabilities of
approaching 50 to 100 trillion i mean it's hard to even grasp that and so
to me uh thank heavens we have somebody who for the first time in my lifetime
uh since actually dwight eisenhower that is basically saying enough's enough
we've got to get a handle on this runaway train before all of it goes out and that's why i don't know if you saw
the interview with musk and um uh the guy from brett bear from fox
and he's had all these tech billionaire leaders ceos who've all volunteered
their time to come help musk and the universal theme among all of them was
not oh well we want to make more money they were saying if we don't do something everything is lost
everything's on the table so my my belief it's kind of and i believe that i believe that that's right i do too i do
too but the media the media and i mean i don't know if you saw these these
rallies where people are being handed brochures and they're being paid by the hour i mean this is such a con job and
the reality is though most people don't take the time to do their own research
they don't read they don't listen they don't observe they're not a student of history they don't understand politics
and and no offense and and i'm not i'm just an observer myself but my goodness
if we're not willing to i mean i don't have a problem financially i you know i
but i but as i read in my journal you know five years ago cardio miracle i was
i was happy with a $5,000 day u now we we we've become a multi-million dollar
company not not as big as we should be with the the fantastic product that we
have but but and the last year or so has been kind of flat because of a number of
reasons but i'm really concerned about the fixed incomes and and then to hear
the nonsense that they're going to cut medicare benefits and to cut social security that's absolutely false they
know right i i sent i sent an email to some friends of mine who know bobby
kennedy well and i said "please tell kennedy to tell everybody in the trump
administration start talking about doge saving social security not cutting
social security saving medicare not cutting medicare." that's what i think
it's all about and if we don't get it under control all of these things and people who have no savings investments
land house equity uh food storage a safe haven to go to it's going to be chaotic
and you know certainly fulfillment probably of prophecy but i'm i'm all for
what the president's trying to do the style is sometimes abrasive but to me uh
it it's very much like a parent having to get an unruly child under control and
occasionally having to use the the velvet glove with a steel hand yeah and
by the way right now as i'm looking at it the market's up 1.18% uh so it's it's turning back up
hopefully and and and make it'll maybe even grab all of its gains back who knows but but that's not the point i
mean the point is is that you've got there's only 40% of the united states adults actually have anything in the
market anything in the market at all right you got 60% of the of of the us
adults that have no this has no bearing on them whatsoever number one number two
we've moved in our economy john in the last 50 60 years and it started before that but especially the last 50 or 60
years into a stock economy which says let's the the the economy is based on
the value of stock well what that's really saying is the elites and the rich
are concerned about the stock market more than anybody else right and they care very little about the average
income of of of bluecollar workers and and of of middle inome america and so
right you've got let's focus on the stock market and not on the income and
yet the income today you've got people of the of the millennials and gen z they can't even afford a house because the
values have gone up so high their incomes haven't increased and even with two incomes in the homes sometimes
they're making less than you and i would have been making 30 years ago 40 years ago as as young adults and and and so
it's it's crushing them and so you've got all the boomers who've got all these 401ks and these values that are up there
great for them they're wonderful they've got a good retirement that's what they plan that's great but you've got the
other half of america that has nothing in a 401k and all the young adults in
america that are saying where why am i making so little why do i make so little
and so you've got this disparity that has gone and and here's the funny thing the democrats used to be for that group
that wasn't making anything exactly and now they're all about the stock market
they're all about the elites because they've gone and they've captured all of the elites they've captured all
of the institutes the big corporations the institution institutions in in the
united states and all of a sudden you've got blue collar america kind of like
they went after went with reagan when he when they voted for reagan they've moved over to the republicans and now you've
got the united auto workers of america actually siding with trump on the
tariffs it's the craziest thing well the the classic is elon musk who five years
ago was the darling of the left and now they want to you know torture him and uh
you know i mean it's it is crazy i mean here you have that they wanted everyone to have electric cars everyone should
drive a tesla the whole industry changed and then now they've
turned on him like dogs because he happens to support an abrasive uh truth
truth speaking most of the time exaggerates uh president who who i
believe loves our country i just believe that i mean they say you know that and
and then it's like and like you you see people whose children are impacted
by undocumented folks and and i'm sure that i have undocumented folks that are
probably helping take care of my yard i don't know i don't go through all the employment records of everyone and i you
know i've had workers come here that go and pick up the people standing there at walmart and all that and hire them for
the day i i mean i understand that and i certainly understand those that are trying to get away from tyranny but
again i i stand in line as a now almost a 73 year old and have to take off my
shoes because one guy at the airport because one guy long ago put a bomb in
his tennis shoes and that's completely i i i don't do you know that do you know
the tsa tsa when the tsa was formed the tsa has never caught a terrorist
ever not once in our and it's in their history have they ever caught a
terrorist someone trying to put something of like a bomb on a on a plane or anything like that ever
it's it it's we move into so many so many things in the government we move
and change things i'm not saying we shouldn't have some type of screening process but we move and we react in a
way it's it's the tail wagging the dog so many times where we move ourselves to
the lowest common denominator possible in every avenue of government and that's
why government is so inefficient it it's it's going toward the lowest
common denominator in everything and business does the exact opposite well and it's interesting because i i
know the pains of being an employer and the reality is
um pe there is there is people who own businesses people who are successful are
are often resented even at very subtle ways by people who have success i mean
there are podcasters who are very jealous of of quick media and greg madson because you've been successful
and everyone wants to get a piece of the action people don't realize how much work it takes to do something that's why
i'm a huge fan of journals i i go back and read my journals five eight 10 years
ago and realize what i was dealing with and going through and i'm like "oh my
that's wonderful." and again what's a journal it's essentially like your own personal scripture and so that's why the
scriptures have value is we're reading about the mistakes and problems and challenges that people had in former
days and try to apply them to our life in current days and that's why people should be students of history and see
that we are on the precipice of losing everything that we have value in our
society and had we not had this last 100 plus days or 100 days we're on the verge
of of total you know uh abortions on the street corner perhaps or uh having you
know our entire country overrun by people who shouldn't be here what's
wrong with having laws what's i i i i mean it's interesting because i i
occasionally make comments on my high school reunion uh website and and i have
i have a bunch of you know woke liberal former and current lbs people who attack
me uh because i i happen to think that uh that tucker carlson makes sense to me
most of the time and megan kelly and that i'm i think that the uh that i'm
against hamas that i that i think the jews are the chosen people and that we should
support that i even was attacked by one of my high school members of the jewish
persuasion because she said uh tucker was so anti-semitic and and uh and i
thought well that's interesting because trump has been the best friend of israel
according to um nyama yamu he's been the best friend
israel's ever had in his lifetime so you know it's it's so contradictory it's
it's almost like it's just it it is trump derangement syndrome combined with
ptsd of what we've dealt with the last six years which has been crazy actually five years since march of 2020 is when
the lockdown craziness started ironically two weeks before cardio
miracle and myself was in the first episode the second episode of supplements revealed which was the thing
that launched us as an an immune support cardiovascular support all at the same
time so within two weeks of the shutdown we had our breakthrough moment of of
being endorsed at the highest levels by some of the top alternative health people and now i watch
tucker and megan and joe rogan and everything else and they're talking to everybody and said "oh hey if we should
have been taking vitamin d." i was screaming from the rooftops i was contacting legislators i was doing
everything possible from 2020 to 2024 to have 23 to have any semblance of sanity
of people having natural immune support instead of the tyranny and takeover of
our government by what happened which is now coming out major studies are coming
out the damage is being assessed and yet so i view the economy as the same thing
if if if the children of israel had to walk in the wilderness for 40 years for
heaven's sakes we should be able to deal with a little bit of food inflation or
some ex some adjustments after trying to get a runaway train under control for 50
60 years or actually back probably to the roaring 20s get that under control
so i i think we need to g up our loins watch what we spend pay down our debt uh
find ways to be more self-sufficient and um and cling to the
gospel and the important truths that we're dealing with uh and then
participate as citizens in getting honorable men and women to represent us
because it's essentially been a den of thieves for many many many years yeah
and and that's one of the things they're going after now right doa is going after why are these senators in congress individuals making so much money they
come in they've got a certain network they they walk out 20 years later and they're million mega mega
multi-millionaires and it's that that's that's a problem and and and that's the other thing about doge right is it's not
just a matter of saving dollars because you've only got a certain percentage of the us economy that they're going to be
able to change when you're talking about the other side which is military spending and social security and things
that we're not really messing with right that's the bulk of our of our of of what the government is paying for but but
what you do have is you have payoffs and you have corruption within that doge
area that to me even more than the waste and is what is crucial because those
people are being paid off and those organizations are having money siphoned to them our money siphoned to them that
that changes policy that changes campaigns that changes elections that is the crucial thing to
me is getting the corruption the the banana republicanism taken out of out of
of of the us i do want to go back to the tariff just for a minute here because i look at these things and again i don't
know if if this is the right thing or not uh i know that something has to be done and and i'm willing to say hey
let's try this out maybe this is the way to go maybe we can even lower taxes if this if this works out they will lower
taxes yeah i think they will but but this is interesting i some of the things that i did pull up on it george
washington in the tariff act of 1789 is the first one to put tariffs into place
and he put a broad 5% tariffs on almost every product coming into the united
states he believed that that's what needed to be done and he became a protectionist in that sense right going
beyond that he put together what was called the revenue cutter service in a
year later which ended up becoming the us coast guard that's that's what it originally was was a tariff guarding the
the imports that were coming in from on the coasts right that's what they that's what the coast guard was to start off
with alexander was an advocate of alexander hamilton was an advocate of tariffs president abraham lincoln said
"give us a protective tariff and we will have the greatest nation on earth." and teddy roosevelt probably one of your
heroes i'm guessing my one of my heroes said "our past experience shows that great prosperity in this country has
always come under a protective tariff." now that hasn't always been the case i've seen where that you know tariffs
have been imposed and trade wars start and they don't always work out but that is that right going back to the founding
of the country there was a belief by the found many of the very influential and
powerful founders that tariffs should be in place well i i agree and the thing
that's interesting is the proof is in the pudding the people are lined up to
to put their businesses back in america and we've we've given away our
sovereignty by giving up our manufacturing and our own self-sufficiency in key industries over
the years and you know we're those of us in the west have an
agrarian background and then we also have a tourism background and a
lifestyle background compared i mean the lifestyle that we enjoy in the west is is almost second to none in the world uh
not as many people not not as much ghetto not as many all those types of
things and and the principles of the gospel are self-reliance and and there's
no question that that we probably need our own form of doge to go through the
church bureaucracy because there you know the skirts aren't totally clean there's there's there's a lot of
interesting things that have happened there's there's a lot of uh construction companies that have done really well uh
in the last number of years that are related to the building programs of the church there's lots of employees there's
carpet companies there's people you know i i i think i met somebody once who uh
had a multi-million dollar business from doing the the folding doors in all of the i know them yes throughout
the world and and again i'm not criticizing that those are needs that need to be filled but the reality is
commerce is commerce enterprise is enterprise and we live in a situation
where we have serious problems with uh gainful employment uh people through the
last couple of years feel that they're entitled to work from their house and not be accountable to anyone and they're
entitled to everything under the sun and and it's really difficult and so it's a
it's a challenging time and and we have that group between they're probably now
about 20 years old and and and 40 that group has really has some interesting
challenges and that's why many are living with their folks and can't find a place to live or they but but a lot of
times we're finding that their work ethic is a little suspect as well and
the baby boomer parents or the the parents uh like myself perhaps spoiled
them too much or enabled them too much or whatever i i remember my kids always coming home to to me and saying "all the
kids in the neighborhood are making fun of me and say,"well if your dad's so rich why do you have to work?" and they
used and i used to some tell them that the reason that your dad has done well is because he learned how to work from
his family and that he started working and so my kids are going to work even though we can afford a gardener you're
going to take care of our yard you're going to take care of you're going to do the things some of the things that i've done fortunately my five children have
all have a pretty good work ethic and uh and that's and that's important but i i
see others people that i love and they're just constantly uh enabling uh
many of their family and and and i know that when we look at some of the wealth and the church members have so much
wealth because of the principles we learned on missions we learned in the church i mean people often will say to
me "man you you latter- day saints you have you have singers i mean i was looking the other day i mean you know
jewel and christina aguilera and i mean all these people were raised
lds many of them." well juliana huff was you know i was the the bishop of her
father uh when they were newly wed so you know a lot of these people have
church background we we and and and then i sit and see our
podcasting brothers that that are now from another mother uh in a lot of ways
that are are trying to profit off of just being antagonist to the church and
i'm like yeah i i i one popped up right before conference and he said i'm going to do a marathon for the next three days
or the next two days and expose all of the lies that are being perpetuated general conference and i thought and i
thought after each session i thought man i don't know what he was going to say about this session because there there was it was just basic christianity and
common sense in this particular session of conference so um i thought john i i
thought that this conference was great i was so happy to see there was so much direct
uh you know it was so much more direct than oftentimes we've been getting lately that's how i felt i felt like it
was you actually had a couple of call outs on on on practices and you know
abortion was one of them and and and a direct that said look you know there is
repentance as part of the plan of salvation and and there is you know what you are becoming and what you need to do
because so often times i feel like the church now is focused so much on what do i get you know in other words how much
does god love me and and and that that is only one side of the coin
right it it's not just that god loves me that's obviously an important thing to understand and maybe it's the first
thing you got to know but it's that's not all i mean the evangelicals believe that right you know god really loves me
and that's and i believe and that's it and and it's like no there's a whole
other side of the coin that we can't lose which is do you love god and how do
you love god and what do you do if you love me obey my commandments right it's
like that that whole side sometimes is getting lost especially in our culture in the in the church and it's this this
you know as i again i say teddy bear jesus it's like it's well i just need somebody to love me and as long as i'm
comforted and loved then that's it and and i just see the adversary laughing
you know falling off his armchair as he watches this laughing saying you know
you guys have all lost the message of of actual exaltation and and who you who you're who you who you're becoming it's
working well let me say the the elephant in the room is the wealth of the church and that seems to be really under attack
and trying to undermine things and yet you go back historically and the
original evangelists the original mega churches what their whole message was if
you follow the if you follow christ you'll be wealthy you'll be successful
they robert schuler uh norman vincent peele they were all minister financial
evangelists that were preaching the gospel of prosperity by following jesus
and so the latter-day saints are the epitome of that that if you
follow and work hard and develop yourself look look at what the missionary program has done look at i
mean i i love the brother who spoke who looked like you know that he had just gotten his suit uh from a secondhand
store maybe had just lost a bunch of weight and i thought you know these wonderful south american uh brethren and
and sister that standing up there who who raised themselves out of poverty and
have become now general authorities of arguably the wealthiest church per capita in the world and look at the
background of jeff holland look at the background of of david bedar look at the background of of many of these brethren
president nelson his his parents weren't active totally active and faithful uh
growing up he he went beyond that then the the brother you know brother karen
being a convert some of the general authorities being converts that was unheard of in my day everyone was
everyone's was a richards a ballard a smith uh you know and they were all
there was a lot of they were all related uh through these lines of people that came through plural marriage
from the other side that have ended up being the latter- day leaders and identified as such through their
patriarchal blessings so i i i am still looking for the bluecollar apostle john
i want the bluecollar apostle where is he well let me think where you know uh in
the olden days prior to the emergence of ces it would have been one of the ces
people sure that's about the closest we get not the closest but but as they as things changed for example things
changed in the '9s the late 80s and 90s where a ces job was actually sufficient
to to provide for a family i i remember the era i'm old enough greg where marian
d hanks and bruce r mcconi uh they joseph phil they had to sell their
church books in order to subsidize the meager existence that they were being provided uh as general authorities and
and you know and i my father was called on a mission to be a mission president
1969 and he wasn't a wealthy man in fact he lost his business while he was on his
mission and that actually happened more times than not that people would go for
three years lose their practice lose their business lose whatever and come home and be out of work and and cause
challenges for for their family through their service so that's kind of i think that's facilitated calling more
successful people as stake presidents calling more successful people financially successful as mission
presidents and church leaders etc so they can afford to do that i i had an epiphany during conference when elder
stevenson who you know i you know it's not an uncommon thing it's common
knowledge that he had an ipo that you know put him in the billionaire mark of of of wealth personal wealth and and he
was talking about catching a red eyee with his wife in an airport overseas and i thought this guy can afford his own
737 if he wants and he's he's doing red eyes in his late 60s or 70s uh because
he's on the lord's errand and people say "well they get upgraded to first class or whatever." well let me tell you if
you're over 6'2 even business class and the little cubicles that they have in
some of these air you can't sleep it's not that comfortable it is nice it's certainly better than sitting back in
coach but i can just tell you that we we have all these brethren and and then
then the the wolves out there that are taking shots at the wealth of the church and the brethren get free tuition to byu
or whatever uh for their kids and grandkids and i'm like these men and the
majority of these men are giving up a life of leisure that most people would
dream of to travel the world bear witness of christ associate with the
saints yes yes they're revered yes they get a certain gratification of of and
spiritual experience but but these are people working into their 80s and 90s
that that in many cases haven't seen their grandkids baseball games that
haven't been able to go to even important family events because they're being assigned to fly all over the world
and i i know that's true with all of these young 70s 70s that are in their 50s that are in the peak earning years
of their career they're leaving being partners in law firms they're leaving being noted surgeons they're doing all
of these things successful business people because they're committed so when you look at that as a whole it's a darn
impressive group of people who are totally committed and people talk about the wealth and the general authority
wealth they probably have paid more tithing than you know many countries themselves and and they don't even bat
an eye because they know that the prosperity that they've been blessed with is merely been a gift for them to
try to serve and help others and and be able to do what they do john you were on your trip you you
visited the south pacific uh i wanted to cover that before we finish here i want you to talk a little bit about your
visits and what's going on out there and uh uh i know you've got a certain tie to
samoa as well well i do you know i well i went on my mission to new zealand part of my mission was in new zealand so i
love the polynesian people but uh 10 years ago as i started the cardio miracle journey i met a wonderful uh guy
uh dr brad nelson and his wife jean who is the author of the emotion code and you know emotion code emotional healers
those types of people they they've been kind of walking a tight tight rope at times in the church because people have
a a challenge thinking that it's a substitute for priesthood and all those type of things well dr brad is truly one
of the great saints that i know and devoted and he preaches the gospel virtually every time he gives a presentation in his own way well his
grandfather was called as a missionary to uh samoa in 1910 as a 19-year-old
cowboy from calgary canada he ended up getting there by steamer i don't know
four weeks six weeks whoever to get to his mission field didn't know the language and within a couple of weeks
had numerous spiritual experiences casting out of evil spirits a healing of
a fellow missionary and and i think at the time there may have been maybe two dozen missionaries or or maybe a few
more in samoa well he had this amazing experience so about three months into
his mission that and and this was crazy and you talk about the far-sighted uh
financial aspect of the church the church like in the 19 or in the
180s or 70s bought 800 acres in samoa for a plantation to help take care of
the saints and to provide the basis of that area that's a long ways away back
in the 1800s to be making an investment in real estate well that plantation grew
crops and it was three miles down to the bay or the harbor of where where the
miss the the natives would bring the produce to put to the ships to trade with the other islands and to get their
their goods as part of their trading so dr brad's grandfather is a young
missionary they had a mission conference at this bay sam matu bay or whatever it was and it's a beautiful spot so we
visited it and while they were having their mission conference among their couple of dozen missionaries and while
the natives were bringing the the fruits and vegetables down to a couple of ships that were parked out in the reef area
just past the reef they saw a man dressed in a suit a suit of clothes with
a top hat over on the other side of the bay i mean just you know we're talking
maybe 50 yards away and um and they they looked at they saw him emerge and then
he walked out on the water and walked around the boat and glanced towards
these missionaries on the shore and then turned around and went back and walked
on the bay into the forest and vanished and the missionaries and their mission
president the mission president most of them in their journals
and writings to their families recorded this event so we're not talking about one person we're talking about several
witnesses several witnesses and um and they and so the missionaries are saying "well pre president who was this was it
was it one of the three nephites i mean this the man just walked on the water." and the president paused and pondered
and said "no i think it was john the revelator."
so so that was in 19 like 11 and so this young missionary had that
experience so we went to that bay and we filmed that spot and that place and
we're now digging up the collaborative journals of the missionary stories and we've already found several that have
said that it was a family story that had been passed down and were trying to find those who had written in his journal
well the president john alexander nelson wrote it in his journal he wrote it in his journal well so that was that so at
the end of his mission after having all of these incredible experiences which there was another sighting of john the revelator and i don't know all the
details on that one they think um he sent in his paperwork to be released from his mission after a three-year
mission and the brethren sent it back and said "uh elder nelson we appreciate your service we'd like you to stay for
three more years and be the mission president in 2014
16 22 years old." and they said "oh and by the way we had split off we had we
had closed the mission in tonga because the tongas and the simones are fighting so much and so we've only had
missionaries in samoa we want you to go back to tonga and open up tonga for the work again and try to pull together the
existing members and and organize the tongan mission at the same time any well tonga i mean tonga's got what a third of
the country or something is lds well they they had a king that joined at one point right now i think it's at 18% okay
is what we saw and we had a great experience there as well but so so the story was so he takes the two-day
journey to tonga seasick the whole way it meets a a fellow he took along a
fellow missionary who knew enough tongan to translate for him to speak to the people he didn't know the language he
had told the brethren what do i do i don't speak the language they said the lord will bless you so they had a gathering at the church of england at
their church their outdoor church the big you know the pause and they said um
you can speak to this group and so the ministers in the middle they're they're all sitting on the ground and he stands up to speak with his
translator and he notices this woman standing on the side of the building leaning against one of the pillars and
he motions for her to sit down and she she says no and and so he starts and he
gives the two sentences he knew in tongan uh and then was translated and was just mortified that he couldn't you
know that he couldn't communicate with these people who had come to hear him as the new mission president at 22 to speak
and all of a sudden it was like a telepathic circumstance with this woman
and he spoke for over an hour in fluent tongen the gift of tongues and he
remained fluent in tongan for the remainder of his three years while he
served as the mission president of samoa and tonga on his mission and and then he
related two experience and i'll i'll be brief because i know we're we're moving along where the the sight of several
tongans was restored and so one was a couple that wanted to go on a mission
serve as missionaries and the wife had been blind since her childhood or since birth and they were coming up the stairs
to president nelson's office and he felt prompted to greet them so he walked out to them and they said "we'd like to go
on a mission but but sister you know we hungy or whatever her name was is
blind." and he put his hands on her eyes and her blindness was healed
that's in his journal okay two years ago janet and i were on another cruise
to hawaii and we went to the honolulu um tabernacle which is unbelievable if
you ever go to hawaii you should go see it it's a great great building it was built and dedic built in the 40s and
dedicated by david mckay and was basically promised it would be preserved through world war ii which is a whole another incredible story about the pilot
who came to try to bomb everything on the island and the and that tabernacle kept disappearing that's that's a great
story and it's true according to many many many accounts so janet and i are
going in to go to church on our sunday stop in honolulu and had no idea which
church we were going to go to we just took uber lds church we ended up at the this uh
tabernacle in between the meetings uh we got there at the end when they were singing the aloha song to a a sister
missionary and so we missed the sacraments so we said "well we'll stay for the next the next meeting which was
an hour later." so we're sitting there and in walks this handsome tongan
man late7s silver hair well-dressed and
you know i love polynesians and i'm kind of outgoing so i went over and introduced myself and his name was
brother wolf graham and i said "wow." i had a missionary companion um louie wolf graham in australia and uh who i loved
one of my favorite favorite companions he says "oh i remember louie as a boy uh you know he's my nephew you know
everyone in tong is related uh one way or another and so i'm talking to them and while we're talking janet who's the
spiritual one in our family she she says to him she says "um brother wolf graham
have you ever heard of president john alexander nelson's miracles while he was the mission president in tonga?" he goes
and he stopped and he looked at her he says "president nelson healed my
grandmother's blindness." so we met two years
before someone who said that john alexander nelson healed his
grandmother's blindness and that's when we went to tonga we we went to various spots where
the saints were to have that and and this is a classic we we we get an uber
and we were getting in one car and then brad nelson goes "no we should go in this one." so we went over in this other car and there was this heavy set older
patriarch type older tongan gentleman seemed very nice spoke pretty good
english we're driving and we always would say "take us to the lds temple or take us to the you know the lds
missionaries or whatever." and uh and we we brought up the church and he goes
are you are you members and we said "yes we're members." he goes "oh i i'm a
patriarch in this in one of the tongen stakes he's the uber driver uh and and
one of the drivers the taxi drivers." and and we started talking to him that was the first day he had ever driven a
taxi in the island he had just retired as the enforcer of the tongan government
law that bans smoking smoking is outlawed in the country of tonga
interesting and the latter and the latterday saint enforcement director for
all of tonga is a patriarch and had been a state president and he was he had
retired and for the day he said to his daughter he says "i think i'm going to go and pick up some of the tourists from
the cruise ship today just just just to fill." and so he took us on a tour of
the island and then we met his daughter and she was a returned missionary and took us to meet his wife i mean we just
had some marvelous marvelous experiences so my advice to people when they go on cruises or when they go on vacations
you'll never know what you'll find we went to the bora bora church in tahiti
um that they talked about in conference the 24 youth that were there from bora
we met some of those youth and actually contributed to their trip uh because they were so excited of coming to
conference so we had just miracle after miracle both on the ship when we held
our own little sacrament meeting we met some other members and made some new friends and then also in the islands as
we toured the missionary legendary miracles of president john alexander
nelson we're going to make a film about it uh and about those stories because the stories are right up there with
groberg's experiences and also with matthew callie's yeah that's awesome
well john you've always got some great experiences and stories to tell appreciate that you and i need to get
together in person it's been a long time so it's been way way way too long st george or or or up uh up in the
mountains there one or the other but uh you're welcome you're welcome to come anytime and uh i actually have a an
event in scottsdale the 5th through the 7th of uh may okay so if you're in town
we should certainly hook up for for for a meal and uh we're we're having wonderful things last last little items
if you know somebody who's suffering from ptsd uh depression um longhaul covid uh or
injuries from many of the protocols that happened we're seeing miraculous results
with people strengthening their immune system and fighting off some of these terrible terrible problems that seem to
be happening all around us so we would encourage people oh we are hsa and fsa
approved uh amazing we just got an award we need to get cardio miracle set right
in the middle of maja john it's got to be right there in the middle of maja we've been told and we have our inroads
there i'm actually going to be in the first maha sponsored film sharing a
little bit about cardio miracle and in the there's three of them i'm going to be in a couple of them i i've been told
and cardio miracle is actually right on the table with all the key people all
the way up to the top of the maha movement of trying to help make america healthy again so we're right in the
midst of all that and there'll be some exciting announcements in the days to come yeah you know i on this two-month
trip that i had to egypt and turkey i had run out of product and had not ordered and so i i can't tell you the
difference that i went through for for a couple months it's it's big big difference and so we we have to take
about a suitcase full whenever we travel cuz janet takes four to six servings a day yeah yeah yeah so it's uhad so i
could definitely feel the difference glad you lived through it and glad to appreciate all your good work and god
bless all of your subscribers as they wander through this wilderness of fiery
darts cling to the iron rod cling to the savior and uh the testimonies because
miracles are still happening and and we're all on the lord's errand to try to help uh prepare for the second coming
john always great speaking with you we'll talk to you again soon okay thanks greg [Music]