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

Painting!

 

 

I went for my youth activity yesterday. We went to paint an elderly lady's apartment. Honestly, I've never painted a wall before. I only remember helping my dad paint my own room .. but that my mum said I only painted a very very tiny bit. It's true, if I helped my dad paint the whole wall I think my room today would have looked horrible! My art SUCKS. Really, I'm not kidding. So please please don't ask me to draw anything for you guys because if I did, you'll probably be laughing your heads out!

So we started our job (painting) at 9 something in the morning. It was so freaking hot! I was sweating like I just came back from a running competition! I forgot to bring my hair rubber band but thankfully one of my other friend brought an extra one :) Some of us got ourselves dirty. Not on purpose (of course). For me, I'm clumsy and careless. I accidentally knocked the wall on the way out of the door (cause everywhere was full of stuff) and the wall paint wasn't dry yet D: What's the result for that? Paint on my shirt and pants. =.= but I wasn't the only one who kena ..

At about 12 something we weren't done yet. So we decided to go for a lunch break at Mc Donalds. I was already so tired ... Even though it was a 5 minutes drive from the apartment to Mc Donalds, I still could have fallen asleep in the car. :S

After lunch, we went back and continued our work. It was time to start sweating again xD At 3 something, we finally finished. The apartment looked nicer and brighter :D Took a few photos then went back home.

In the evening we went to one of the youths house for dinner. At the dining table our parents were talking about how teenagers (girls) don't like to wear dresses now. For me is like obviously lor, now all the dresses are so short .. Ask parents to buy they sure don't let. So I wear pants la xD Suddenly one of the ladies told me.. If I'm not mistaken she said something like "Wa soon you're gonna get married already." I thought I heard wrong.. because I'm stil very young, actually way younger than her own children and she's telling me this??  Weird...

Later the men went upstairs and the ladies stayed downstairs to chit chat. We had a great time and laugh A LOT. I almost had a tummy ache xD

At night I slept like a total pig. I was soooo tired. I was also pretty sure the next day my hands were gonna hurt.. and it did, but not as bad as I thought it will be.

I had fun yesterday. At least I got to experience how it is like to be a painter or something.  =)