Welcome to the Conversations That Matter podcast. My name is John Harris. Well, today is going to be a little bit different. As many of you know, the show is called Conversations that Matter because well we have

conversations or I give a monologue about topics that matter to me I think they're

important and one of the things I you know most of you probably don't know this in my audience, but I started to develop a little bit of an interest and a curiosity in Russia.

And I certainly am not an expert on Russia at all, but I did listen to the audible version of War and Peace, which I am proud of that. It's one of my probably top five accomplishments in life because that's a very very long book but

but you know Russia to me it just has such a fascinating history kind of coming out of

communism still you know we'll find out today more about kind of where they're at now, but I think there's just so many things that I've learned that actually even parallel in some ways the United States. Obviously there's a lot of differences but we're going

to explore Russia a little bit today if that's okay with you. So we have a special

guest. Justice, I'm going to let you kind of introduce yourself a little bit and then I'm going to tell everyone kind of how I found out about you.

But Justice is a missionary in Russia.

He has a large, actually a larger than my following channel on YouTube.

So Justice, why don't you tell us a little bit about that?

Yeah, John, thanks so much for inviting me over. It was always nice to get a

invite from a fellow brother and just to be able to talk about, like you said, things that matter.

So yeah, as you said, my name is Justice Walker and my folks came over to Russia back in

1994 right after the fall of the Soviet Union and there were missionaries here in Russia and

Siberia for six years. I grew up in Russia so when we moved over here I was 11 and when my

folks finally decided to go back to the states to end of their mission, I had just turned 18.

I had a real serious plan. I'm the kind of guy who always likes to have like, you know, five-year plans for everything, seven- seven year plans for everything even back when I was a kid I was like I knew what university I was playing on going to what college I knew how I was going to get in I knew I was going to pay for it I knew what dorm I was going to live in what floor and what dorm what professors were going to pay for it. I knew what dorm I was going to live in, what floor and what

dorm, what professors were going to, you know, I knew everything. Like I had the whole

thing written up by the time I was 15. And when I was 18, when my folks decided to

finish their mission when they felt they needed to come home.

I did the normal, you know, Christian young person thing.

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