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So today on this T.S.F. Hall fun episode, you get to hear my conversation from episode 260 with Christine DeClario a few years back, Christine and I went on a trip to Ecuador with Compassion International and immediately hit it off like sisters from different ministers. I love how she loves God. How she loves the worship and how she talks about both in this episode in this one was definitely a note taking up a so for sure I cried, but like duh. And it was a truly spiritual hour. So prepare yourself, friends.

It's why I wanted to be sure that we brought this one back. It is really special. I cannot wait to listen again and to hear what you get out of it. So here's my T.S.F. Hall of Fun conversation from November 12 of 2020 with Christine DeClario.

Christine, I'm so happy to have you on the podcast.

Oh my goodness. Annie Downs. Well, we should make this episode three or four hours long so you can really catch up. That is the truth. Listen, when I just told you this that when my team was like, have you thought about Christine DeClario? I was like, I mean, literally we went to Ecuador together. So like we've known each other for years. You're the reason I ever even practice my Spanish because I promised you and your husband.

You're the reason I actually wrapped my head around what writing a book is like goodness. And your book did so well and people read it all the time. It's been really a beauty to see how brokenness could just be somebody else's lighthouse. Yes. Oh, that's a good line. Hey, let's tweet that one. That's really good is we tell me the title of it again.

The protocol heart. That's right. And it's an English and in Spanish. Yes. And soon will be in Portuguese. Okay. Yes. When did you start adding Portuguese? And do you speak fluent English? I mean, I know your English is very fluent. Are you three languages fluent?

I am. And I learned the term for that. I thought it was like trialing well, uh-huh me in my simple mind. And I learned that it's actually called polyglot when you speak more than two languages.

Oh my gosh. I would have said trialing will too. Me too. All the time. And it's just a call of the Lord about five years ago, something really supernatural started happening to me where I would be leading worship in English or Spanish. Uh-huh. And I would hear a voice. And I know it was the voice of the Holy Spirit just speaking into my ear, singing my songs back to me in Portuguese.

You and that was it was like, why is this why is this so significant that that God would make such a big show of interest?

Yes. So supernatural on it. And I just started seeking the Lord and just praying and fasting about it. And he started and stealing upon my heart that there would come a time where I would expand into other languages.

He wanted Portuguese to be the first that I expanded into because he wanted me to tell the people what the Lord had done to me and connect what's going on in my heart to other people's hearts in the languages of their hearts.

To avoid losing and translation type thing until I've started with Portuguese. I've been learning it for five years now. Okay.

But it's been awesome to see actually how that is happening. The connection is deeper when when you put in the work and start trying to communicate with people in the language that they best understand.

There's a cultural aspect to it that's just greater back me up to when did you learn, which one did you learn as your first language?

That is a very tough question because since I can remember I've always remembered speaking both.

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