Call Summary: Spiritual Warfare, Kingdom Business, and Family Updates

Overview

Ida called Gary while shopping at Hobby Lobby to discuss his new automation business website, share a dramatic healing testimony from a workplace injury, and coordinate Thanksgiving plans. The conversation covered Carlos's continued spiritual progress, Ida's philosophy on identifying future believers, and stories of her remarkably successful mentees.

Key Topics Discussed

Gary's Automation Business Vision

• Ida's Reaction: "You literally just said all that when I was shopping at Hobby Lobby. And you said all that, that you wanted to do. And you just did that, just created that. What did it take you, like 30 minutes?"
• Understanding Gap: "I don't understand it all. I was gonna try and explain it to Jesus, except I can't because I don't really know how to explain it myself. You'll have to explain it to us when you're here."
• Gary's Explanation: Basic automation involves capturing website visitors in a funnel and moving them to the next step
• TED Automation Franchise: Ida discovered this franchise model during job search at Texas Care Center (mental health center franchise)
• Business Philosophy Discussion: Gary noted that pure opportunists often cut corners: "if you're willing to just do anything, in other words, with no passion, you're probably going to do it in a way that cuts corners"
• Ida's Business Vision: "I want to have my own business eventually" - prefers betting on herself rather than franchise models

Workplace Injury and Miraculous Healing

• The Fall: Ida had a severe fall at work where "my whole body went flying" with many staff witnesses
• Initial Response: "I was hysterically bawling because I was in a lot of pain at the moment"
• The Healing: A nurse who "hardly knows me prayed over my ankle" continuously while Ida was on the ground crying
• Ida's Faith Declaration: "I was like, body, you just got healed. You are not gonna go down this road again for three years and not be able to move and be in severe pain. I'm not gonna be broken again. I just got healed"
• Result: Pain dissipated within 3-4 minutes, returned to work immediately despite everyone expecting her to go home
• Earlier Incident: Same day, was doused in gasoline at a gas station - sees as spiritual warfare
• Spiritual Interpretation: "I'm a threat. You know what I'm saying? Because I don't stop. I don't stop talking. I don't stop telling the truth. I don't stop living my faith."
• Perspective on Trials: "Around the corner is the blessing. Around the corner is the victory. Around the corner is the win. It's right around the corner."

Ministry to Suicidal Students

• Current Crisis: Two students had attempted suicide the week before
• Decision to Stay: When offered to go home after fall: "What? This is an opportunity for the enemy to keep me away from whatever he's doing with these kids"
• Next Day Response: Multiple people amazed she returned: "We thought for sure you would not be here today because of your fall"
• Ida's Response: "I have to see this person, this person, this person, this person. I had three girls want to talk to me"
• Ministry Philosophy: "Everybody's suffering. So, no, this is going to pass. I need to see the kids."

Carlos's Continued Progress

• Social Progress: Now going out with family to "the grocery store, to Costco. He never did before"
• Weight Concerns: Lost weight while sick, experiencing anxiety about it
• Ida's Counsel: "Son, you've been healed of that. You need to rebuke that when it comes. Or memorize the scripture about fear... That is your weapon"
• Spiritual Growth: "He's more open to talk about these things... not specifically spiritual warfare like the scriptures and things like that. He just did it his own way, and now he's more open to learning"
• Church Attendance: "He's going with us to church tomorrow... he's planning to go with us like every Sunday"
• Gary's Contribution: Sent Carlos a reflection he wrote for him to read
• Ida's Vision: "I believe my son will be in the ministry. I just can't imagine anything else that he would have gone through so much for if not to constantly move in whatever way he can for the kingdom"

Stepdaughter Asia's Return to Faith

• Background: Raised part-time by Ida and Jesus, experienced "dark and desolate" childhood with mother's family (violence, trauma, drugs, abuse, neglect)
• Current Life: 28 years old, married 10 years to a Marine, two children, studying nursing
• Return to Church: Started attending church with family about two months ago - they didn't even invite her
• Ida's Approach: "We just always tell her, hey, we're doing this, we're doing that... Because young people sometimes don't want to be asked, told. So we just let her decide"
• Character: "People. She's extremely just full of life... there's just people that are just so full of life and you want to be around them because there's something different"

Stories of Exceptional Mentees

• VP at Goldman Sachs:

  • Mentored since freshman year of high school
  • "Generations of poverty, like probably 10 generations of poverty"
  • "Never knew his father. His mother... they barely ate, probably from the dollar store"
  • Stanford psychology degree
  • Became Vice President at Goldman Sachs (number one investment bank at the time)

• Oil & Gas Marketing Director:

  • Named Karen, became director at 23-24 years old
  • Working for what she described as number one oil and gas company in US/possibly world

• Bethany's Impact:

  • First in entire family lineage to get college degree
  • Changed entire family: "her mom went to college and became an accountant... Her four siblings went to college after her. Changed a whole family lineage. A whole bloodline."

Spiritual Discernment Gift

• Core Insight: "I think that God lets me see people that are going to choose God, they're going to choose Him. They're going to choose Him. And they may not know yet, or they may not have had the opportunity yet, but they're going to."
• What She Sees: "Their realness, their truth, the who they really are according to God"
• Ministry Approach: "See, I see that in most people, but not everybody believes that for themselves"
• Connection Pattern: "The people who know me are the people who I met. Like, divine appointment"
• Remarkable Network: "Some of the closest people I feel like God's put in my life have been the number one or lead in their field"

Thanksgiving Plans

• Family Gathering: Ida's extended family coming including:
  • Niece from Austin (marketing degree from St. Mary's, about Gary's age)
  • Sister and husband
  • Father (80) and his partner Gloria
  • Niece won't attend (going to Puerto Rico resort)
• Gary's Invitation: Will meet the family, potential connection with Austin-based niece
• Family Dynamics: Ida suspects niece may be neurodivergent/autistic, describes her as "not open" except with her mother

Jesus Villavicencio's Support

• Gas Station Response: After Ida was doused with gas, Jesus joked: "You want to come put [gas]?" knowing why he always fills her tank
• 30-Year Tradition: "He puts gas in my car every Sunday. For our whole marriage"
• Understanding: "He knows, too, because these things happen" - recognizes spiritual warfare patterns
• Past Transformation: Ida used to "literally rebuke him to his face" when he would gaslight her, teaching him to be "a man of your word"

Key Quotes

• On spiritual warfare: "I'm a threat... Because I don't stop. I don't stop talking. I don't stop telling the truth. I don't stop living my faith."

• On perspective: "Around the corner is the blessing. Around the corner is the victory. Around the corner is the win. It's right around the corner."

• On healing: "I was like, body, you just got healed. You are not gonna go down this road again for three years and not be able to move and be in severe pain."

• On divine appointments: "I think that God lets me see people that are going to choose God... Their realness, their truth, the who they really are according to God."

• On accountability: "If you're a man of your word, that means you're a person who believes in accountability, and you're going to hold yourself to a high standard, which is being obedient to God."

• On Carlos's destiny: "I believe my son will be in the ministry. I just can't imagine anything else that he would have gone through so much for."

• On workplace ministry: "This is an opportunity for the enemy to keep me away from whatever he's doing with these kids."

• On victory: "Things are not as though they seem ever... If he said, we win, we win."

Action Items / Takeaways

• Gary will explain his automation business model in person at Thanksgiving
• Gary sent Carlos a reflection for him to read
• Ida will continue ministering to suicidal students despite physical challenges
• Potential connection between Gary and Ida's niece in Austin (marketing professional)
• Carlos committed to attending church every Sunday
• Ida continues to believe in Gary's technological kingdom impact: "We need that because people are not knowing how to be human... We live in two worlds now"

Gary's Brief Mention

• Elon Musk Encounter: When Ida asked if Gary knew Elon, he briefly mentioned meeting him at a party about 1.5 years ago where Musk "was around bunch of conservatives, so he felt at home at the time"