David Schmidt - 20th Anniversary Achievement Award

"This twenty year journey has been incredible. It's been filled with immense challenges and in some case, incredible hardships."

"I wouldn't change anything for the world, because each one of those challenges and hardships brought me closer to God."

"It deepened the prayer that I had each day."

"In all of those times of darkness, when things were so difficult, that's really when you find out who you are. You find out what you're made of."

"By turning to God, by looking for guidance, maintaining faith, working hard, staying focused on your goals, you can achieve anything." 

"I used to think I was a good inventor. But then I realized I really wasn't."

"When you deepen your connection to God, when you have a life of devotion and prayer each day, what you realize really what's going on is that this information is being given to you, it's being downloaded into your mind from the spirit. Then it's your responsibility to act on that so you can make this world a better place."  

"I asked my patent attorney, because you have to put an inventor name on the patent. And I asked my patent attorney, when I had this realization that I wanted to put the inventor as Lord Jesus Christ. He said the patent office won't accept that. I said he's a real person. That's where I got the idea. And I have to sign a document to be truthful, then what's the problem here? But the government didn't like that. Go figure."

"But if I can stand here before you after twenty years, with all the success that we've had, having gone through these hardships, what it means to you is that anything that you want to accomplish in life you can."

"Don't be afraid to dream big. Don't be afraid to take chances. Don't be afraid to reach out to the world around you to make this world a better place and touch lives, because even though there are these times of darkness, we can turn things around, we can make a difference, we can be a symbol of hope, we can be there for people in need. We just have to try."

"So thank you so much. An amazing twenty years. I love you all. Thank you."