Call Summary: Uvalde Attack Timeline, Liberty Deliverance, and Carlos's Major Breakthroughs

Overview

Morning phone call on Ida's first day back at school after the holidays. Gary shared updates on his new living situation and upcoming AI mentor contract. Ida clarified the full timeline of her mystery illness that began the day after ministering at Uvalde, her deliverance from weekly suicidal thoughts at Liberty, and major breakthroughs with Carlos including agreeing to therapy, getting a job, and allowing physical touch for the first time since age 10.

Key Topics Discussed

Gary's Updates

New Living Situation:

• Moved in with Christian friend (Dawson) who is "genuinely seeking the Lord"
• Divine timing: same day previous housemate said he wanted to live alone, new friend said he wanted a housemate
• "It's funny, the day that my previous housemate was like, I want to live alone again, this other friend was like, I actually want a housemate"

AI Mentor Contract:

• Meeting tomorrow to try to lock in contractual relationship with AI mentor (Travis Oliphant)
• Role: Build community around AI, host events for applied AI people
• Mentor sent contract before Christmas, Gary asked questions, hasn't heard back but got "Happy New Year" message
• "I'm grateful. Fits my existing skill set."

The Daily Spirit:

• Created Facebook and YouTube channel for daily exhortations
• "Making incremental progress. That's what we can ask for."
• Planning to make tomorrow's exhortation about Ida's story

Personal Project:

• Built animated interactive digital storybook

Ida's Building Vision

Declaring a Building:

• Saw empty buildings and declared: "I want that building"
• Jesus asked "For what?" - Ida said: "Anything. School ministry, pods of people working here, Christian businesses, anything"
• Jesus noted: "I've never heard you say you want a building other than a clinic"
• Ida claimed in faith: "I've heard of people letting other people use their building without them having to pay... I'm going to claim that in the name of Jesus"

Last Chance Ministry Connection:

• Building for rent appeared on Facebook - belongs to Last Chance Ministry (Pastor Jimmy Robles)
• Same pastor Ida had thought to connect with Apostle Delmar
• Met associate pastor while buying Christmas decorations (Jesus called out her "ulterior motive")
• Associate pastor said Pastor Robles would be interested in schools vision
• Communicated with pastor's son (who has own church)
• Shared Gary's Texas Christian Micro Schools resource
• Building is 5 miles / 10 minutes from Ida

Uvalde Attack and Mystery Illness - Full Timeline

The Triggering Event:

• Counselors, ministers, helping professionals called to Uvalde after massacre
• Ida was with ministers at the memorial park, praying with traumatized townspeople
• While sharing her childhood healing story, her insides were "twisted" - severe cramps from back to side
• Ministers prayed over her and prophetically called out her son Carlos and his gifts (barely knowing him)

The Attack Began:

• "What I experienced the next day" - woke up unable to move
• Every joint affected: jaw, neck, hips, ankles - "like the Tin Man"
• Burning pain, couldn't walk, move arms, or turn face
• "I would scream in pain"

Medical Journey:

• 10-15 doctors couldn't pinpoint it
• Tested for lupus, Hashimoto's, muscular sclerosis - didn't have enough markers
• Rheumatologist: "This is a mystery. We don't know."
• Final diagnosis: Rheumatoid arthritis (because they couldn't explain it)
• Medicines didn't help - "no real alleviation for some time"

Physical State:

• Lost 30 pounds initially
• Could only eat an apple a day
• Couldn't cook, do laundry, care for family
• "I didn't think I was going to live. Like, it was that painful"

Suicidal Thoughts:

• "For the first few months, I was suicidal because it was a pain that I have never experienced in my life"
• "I thought it was going to take me out by itself"

Work Through Pain:

• Started taking severe painkillers to get to work
• "At work, I was only probably 30% myself, but 30% was normal... what anybody else probably gives"
• "Normally I'm like a thousand percent"
• Principal asked how husband deals with it - Ida shared Jesus takes care of her
• Principal's response: "My husband would say, stop complaining. Just move."
• Principal and husband divorced that summer after 25 years

Carlos's Care:

• Carlos prayed with Ida every single day during illness
• Would come into room and hold her hand
• "He doesn't let me touch him. I haven't been able to touch him since he was 10"
• Sensory issues: "Hugging to him felt like a hundred people hugging him"

Spiritual Response:

• "Whatever's happening to me, I don't know how, but I know that God will use it... for other people"
• "He's going to advance his kingdom through my suffering"
• Would cry driving to work saying: "Thank you, Jesus, for this situation. Thank you for my pain. Forgive me for thinking that I wanted to die"

Healing Timeline

Two Years on Medicine: Helped maybe 40-50%

Ankit Rambabu Revival (5 days):

• Went from 40% to 95% healed
• "I haven't taken painkiller. Not one. Since the revival. Not one."
• "God freed me from it"

Liberty Service (Encounter Church):

• Delivered from spirit of suicide
• Had been getting suicidal thoughts weekly: "Any little thing that would hurt my heart... I would go from like a hundred to 0 in a few seconds"
• Would have to go into "severe spiritual battle" - worship, prayer - to remove thoughts
• "Since Liberty, I don't even have the thoughts at all. At all. No matter what."
• Apostle Delmar looked at her after prayer and said: "You're tormented, too"
• "No one knew. My husband didn't know. I didn't tell my husband or my son."

Carlos's Major Breakthroughs

Agreed to Christian Therapy:

• Yesterday agreed to see male Christian therapist in San Antonio
• For OCD and hypochondria struggles
• Will Uber there himself
• Scheduling appointment this week

Agreed to Get a Job:

• Major milestone

Getting Haircut Today:

• Jesus taking him

Physical Touch Restored:

• Now allows hugging and touching
• "He does now. He's getting a ton better."
• First hug since age 10 was at Liberty

Speaking Life Testimony

Friend's Heavy Metal Son:

• Friend and husband were pastors
• Son was into heavy metal, cutting, headbanging
• Friend kept "speaking death" over son, calling out what she saw
• Ida told her: "Stop speaking death over your son"
• "Things are not as though they seem. We don't believe things. We can't believe our eyes. We have to speak life."

Result:

• Within the next year: son completely converted, submitted life to Christ
• Became worship leader, learned guitar
• Still worship leader today with wife and children (10 years later)

Applied to Carlos:

• Non-Christian family members would say cruel things: "He's just gonna rot up there in his room"
• Ida's response: "Everything has its time and he's on God's time, not my time or the earth's time"

Carlos's Warning About Uvalde

After Ida told Carlos what happened, he said:

• "Mom is there, right? I told you not to go there because it's too much for you"
• "You have to have a covering. You're not a man. You have to have a covering."
• Ida: "Well, next time you go with me"
• Carlos: "There were spirits there. Rage, murder, anger, depression. And you feel everything, even in one person, much less a crowd."

Key Quotes

• "I didn't think I was going to live. Like, it was that painful - how could I live?"

• "Whatever's happening to me, I don't know how, but I know that God will use it for other people. He's going to advance his kingdom through my suffering."

• "In my severe pain, I would be crying all the way to work saying, thank you, Jesus, for this situation. Thank you for my pain."

• "Since Liberty, I don't even have the thoughts at all. At all. No matter what."

• On Apostle Delmar: "He looked at me and said, 'You're tormented, too.' No one knew. My husband didn't know."

• "Stop speaking death over your son. Things are not as though they seem. We can't believe our eyes. We have to speak life."

• Carlos on Uvalde: "You have to have a covering. You're not a man. You have to have a covering."

Action Items / Takeaways

• Gary meeting with AI mentor tomorrow to finalize contract
• Gary will make tomorrow's Daily Spirit exhortation about Ida's story
• Carlos scheduling Christian therapy appointment this week
• Carlos getting haircut and agreeing to get a job
• Ida following up with Last Chance Ministry about building / school opportunity
• Building is 5 miles from Ida - potential location for future ministry/school work