I Heart God Youth Camp !!!

A friend invited me to a youth camp this month. It was a 4 days 3 nights camp at Bayu Beach Resort, Port Dickson. Not everyone gets to go for camps. I've heard friends say they can't attend because their parents won't allow them to. So I'm really grateful for my parents who lets me go for these camps =)

I've been to many family camps since I was young and started going for youth camps last year. Lots of times I just enjoy camp but forget the rest. That's why I admit sometimes I don't take the sermons and everything seriously.

But this camp ... was different =)

I've been going to church since I was very young. Actually, since I was born! I come from a Christian background. So every Sunday , my parents would take my brother and I to church. Now that I'm 14, going to church , singing songs, listening to sermons has become a very usual thing to me .. until I saw this picture in my camp journal.

Questions suddenly started popping in my head. Do I know God? Do I love God? and Pastor Rockie Siew (our camp speaker) shared this in one of the sessions so now I'm willing to change. Not just to sing songs but to love God and sing with all my heart. =)

1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Everyone makes mistakes right? Being an immature girl like me I've made many mistakes in the past. Some mistakes that I don't even know why I did it. Sometimes a word or a sentence might just slip out of someones mouth and end up hurting our feelings. Or ... It might be the other way , we say something and accidentally hurt people's feelings. Agree? and we all know in this type of situation we have to use this word called "forgiveness" =)

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. Forgiving people is hard. Yup, I'm a human too so it's also hard for me. There were some people that have offended me in the past .. I'm sure I have offended some people too =( and sometimes I just had to hold back those tears and act like nothing has happened. But now after listening to Pastor Rockie share his testimony and teaching, I know what's right to do. That is to forgive , because God forgave us while we were still sinners =)

Forgiving is not just to forgive and to forget, it's to remember but to let go =) 

Back to the topic, this camp was different because it was the first time I was touched by all the sessions. I don't regret every single moment of this camp. (seriously!) Being able to encounter God personally was truly amazing and also scary for me because it was my first time..

Aside from that, I really thank God for answering my prayers. Which was .. Awesome roommates !! and of course .. Awesome new friends too !! =D They were very kind and friendly. Had a fun time with them. Watching television and LOL-ing at the show called "Wipe Out" until late at night xD Saving seats for us during sessions and meals , chit chatting and also introducing new friends to us. They really took care of us like our big sisters ! xD There's just one word to say , Thank You !!! =D


So .. Last sentence , I enjoyed this camp A LOT !!! =D

Youth Camp!!

I went for my first youth camp last Thursday! It's a 4 days 3 nights camp. My school frend invited me to this camp. 8:30am we went by bus to our camp place.

At about 10 something, we reached our church place which is at Seremban's STM. We went into the hall and sat down. After a while, they started announcing our roommates. Turns out I 'm not in the same room with my fren. Instead they put me in a room with someone I didn't noe (which is a good idea becoz they want us to get to noe each other).

 I noe it looks very crumpled..sry :S and the colour is suppose to be a brighter yellow

After that they gave out our camp T shirts, played a few games, had our lunch and went to put our luggages in our rooms. The rooms are not very big. Juz nice for 3 people. (2 beds, 1 mattress). My roommates are very kind and friendly so they let me sleep on the bed..hehe :D

Later we went back to the hall. It was group time. I met my group. My group is called Mars. :D At night was the sermons. The topic of this camp is "What on earth am I here for?" We learned about "who I am", "why was I created" and stuff. Ya ya, I was listening..I usually dun listen but this sermon was quite interesting. After sermon was night game.

The next day we had to wake up at 7 am. (So early!!!) One of my roommate woke me up. All 3 of us took a very long time to fall asleep tat night..Probably becoz we were not used to the bed there. Had our breakfast, devotion and then praise and worship. I reli reli enjoyed every single day of their praise and worship. Why?? becoz...

I ALWAYS wanted to be like the "jumpy" type of person during praise and worship but the youth in my church ain't those kind of "jumpy" people. So in this camp I finally had to chance to jump like a crazy monkey. xD and yup, I teared up during every praise and worship when they sang the slow songs..especially the theme song coz it reli relates to me n mayb some of the other youths.

Later we had workshop and other stuff.. and at 1:30 pm it was outdoor game time! The games were super duper fun! One of the games they had to carry me. They think tat i'm the lightest =.='' I was so scared they would drop me becoz they had to pass me through the monkey bar..but I trusted in them larr..Thank God they didn't drop me. :)

We finished our games at 5 pm. We were so exhausted. Went to the room, bath, rest and chit chat a bit. At night was as usual la..Sermon, took our group photo and night game.

3rd day, my roommate woke me up again. (Thank You!! :D) the time table was the same..Lazy to write it out again..hehehe. 11:15 am, we played the "Game Of Life''. It is something like the board game but u don't need to spin and walk dunno how many steps and all. U can go any where to work, go to church, watch movie and even get married! They have different stages. At the second last stage I almost got married. Then suddenly the teacher announce "The game is over, plz get back into ur groups" =.=  Dunno why they dun wan to play the last stage. SOO CLOSE to getting married lerr.... haiz...

At night was group performance. All of the groups had to perform a sketch. I had to be carried again....That was my part of the sketch. Easy rite? :D but I reli kelian the person carrying me. :S Our sketch came in second place. Not bad la.. :D After that they played the shuffling song and they managed to get the pastor to shuffle. xD On tat day I slept at 3:30 am since it was the last day of camp.

4th day, thanks to my roommate's alarm I got up. I was so sleepy I wanted to juz close back my eyes n go back to sleep..but I couldn't cuz had to go for Sunday Service. At 11pm we packed up and went back home.

Only one word can describe this camp. AWESOME!!!! hahaha :D Although I was sad to leave camp but I was still happy becuz I learned a lot and I also met some wondeful, kind and friendly frens.



Church Camp and Christmas card!!

,I went for church camp last week. Left on Thursday and came back on Saturday. We went to Kampar this year. Prepare for a very long....post.

Thursday,

Arrived at 3 o'clock. Went into the Grand Kampar Hotel, took all our name tags and started playing games. We had our welcome party! :D After that went to our rooms and rested for a while. (super duper nice and clean hotel) 6:30, dinner time! At 8 o'clock we started our first session which was preached by Pastor Tony Tan.

Friday,

I woke up 7:30 freezing cold. I had to sleep on the mattress that was on the floor. My parents didn't want to sleep there. I also had to wear my jacket and sleep because the air cond was super cold!! Even though my mum put it lower but it was still so cold!!! Anyways, went for my devotion with my group and then went for breakfast. At 9 o'clock we went to the waterfall. Played games and swam there. I kept falling down because the rocks were so slippery. :S 1 o'clock came back to hotel rest had lunch and continued our sessions in the afternoon and at night.

My messy mattress.

Saturday,

Woke up warm because I was wearing a thicker jacket. I brought 2 jackets along with me. XD Went for devotion and breakfast. After that it was our last session, testimony and group photo time! We all wore our camp T shirts. :D 1 o'clock had lunch and head back to KL.

On Wednesday, My dad asked me to go to the room and take something during the 2nd session. When I was waiting for the lift to go back down, the fire alarm suddenly rang!  and the lifts all went back down to group floor. I was on the 5th floor. Thank God I wasn't in the lift or else but would be stuck there. :S but after a while everything was back to normal...So I didn't have to walk 5 floors down the staircase. Phew!~

and during session 3 on Friday. Half way preaching the pastor suddenly called my name. He asked me "Are you a musician?" I didn't know what to answer because I don't know what kind of musician he was talking about. Church musician?? School musician?? Then after that he asked my mum. Phew! After a while he called my name again, and asked me to read the Bible.

I learned a lot during camp. :)

Yesterday I received a Christmas card from my church friend. Thank you so much!! :D

Tonight is Techflow's Christmas night! and tomorrow I'm playing the guitar for caroling. Saturday is Christmas!!! It's gonna be a fun week! :D

Camp time!

Today I went for a one day camp in school..The Science Tech Education people came and taught us "How to become a leader"..It was very fun! The games were fun and funny..Lol. :D

Yesterday I went for my dentist appointment. On the way there, I saw my "Kuih Wonderland".That's what my mum called it. XD It's a huge stall by the side of the road selling all types of kuih! After seeing the dentist my mum and I went to buy some kuih..We bought quite a lot of different types. My favourite is onde-onde :D

It's Saturday!!!!! YAY!!!