"When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since"
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Papua New Guinea does crucial work here, too. It functions as an exoticized backdrop that signals “mission trip,” distance from home, and a supposed proximity to the raw and real. The place name isn’t about PNG so much as what it connotes to an American evangelical audience: frontier, intensity, a setting where ordinary life falls away and Big Decisions happen. That’s the subtextual bargain: remove Will from familiar routines, drop him into a charged environment, and transformation becomes narratively inevitable.
“Within three months he was saved” compresses identity into a deadline, reinforcing a specific Christian framework where salvation is a definable moment rather than a long negotiation. “Never looked back since” is the final seal, a preemptive strike against doubt, relapse, or complexity. The intent reads as communal persuasion: this isn’t only Will’s story, it’s a model offered to listeners as proof that God acts, quickly and permanently, if you just get in the right place and let go.
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Scott, Michael. (2026, January 16). When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-they-were-in-papua-new-guinea-god-just-88331/
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Scott, Michael. "When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-they-were-in-papua-new-guinea-god-just-88331/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-they-were-in-papua-new-guinea-god-just-88331/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.






