There was this farmer in Africa who was very, very poor. And when this diamond rush, this rush that

started to go through Africa about diamonds, that if you find a diamond or you find diamonds, you

become very rich, it hit his village. People start bringing presentations that the only thing

you need in your life is to find the diamonds.

When you find diamonds, you're set for the rest of your life.

And so he sold his farm, moved his family to another city.

They located in some small ghetto apartment.

And he started going to India and other places to look for diamonds.

He went to India, didn't find them, went to other places, didn't

find those diamonds, and then decided to go to somewhere here in Ecuador to look for diamonds,

didn't find them, and spent about 10 years of this journey, didn't find the diamonds, felt so

embarrassed that he didn't find the diamonds, that he let his family down, decided to commit

suicide, threw himself in the river,

and killed himself. The guy he sold the farm to, bought his farm 10 years prior to this,

and one day he was working on the farm with the ox and the cows and all of the good stuff,

and by a little brook in that farm, he found a big stone. Nothing particular about

that stone. There was plenty of them laying there. Just a big stone. He brought it inside of his

house. He placed it by the fireplace, just a stone. And a local clergy, a local pastor was walking

by, decided to come for a tea. they were drinking tea, and the pastor noticed

the stone by a fireplace and he said, where did you get that? He said, that, the stone? He said,

yes, that, that stone. He says, oh, in my backyard. And the pastor said, before I was a pastor, I was a jeweler.

I worked on rare stones, very expensive stones.

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