Goodbye for now everyone~! I'll see ya all in 2 months ^^ Dont think I'm going to make a new blog, so just email me at j_song13@hotmail.com , just don't write about christian stuff or any locations Im at.
I'll miss you all ^^ Take care and don't forget me now haha.
Love Love
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Last day in Hawaii before China/Japan
LAST DAY!! FINALLY IS HERE!! TOOK LONG ENOUGH!!! BUT IS FINALLY HERE!!
I'll be leaving at 4:30am tomorrow morning, but most likely won't sleep or I'd probably wake up late ><; Just gunna stay up all night and count down the hours haha.
We'll be stopping off in Japan first from 1pm-9:30am the next day, so we'll be staying at a hotel nearby the airport. We're thinking of going and exploring a little bit in Tokyo and buying a meal there ^^.
It's one of my many goals in life to go to Japan, so I guess I can finally check this one off my list ^^. Some other random ones I can think of is....
-Go to Australia and visit the Hillsong church
-Go to Texas and visit the Lakewood church
-Go to Korea and visit 5 of the biggest churches in the world
-Go to Egypt and explore the pyramids, and try to climb up one
-Go to Rome and see the Colosseum and eat real pasta
-Eat dog meat and other weird animals (might get to check this one off in China)
-Own a professional level guitar
-Have my first new hairstyle
-Create a band and record a CD
-Have an open vision from God
-Perform a miracle
-Get married
-Etc etc etc
Anyways, this marks a huge milestone in my life because I'm going to be going confidently and without fear into a place that should be feared haha. I'm just going to trust that God loves me enough to keep me safe, cuz He's already been good enough to give me the opportunity to live in Hawaii for 3 months, and then go to Japan and China! What a good God my God is xD. So glad I'm on His side haha.
Anyways, none of you will see me (most likely) for 2 months, so keep praying for me and wishing me luck xD. I'll contact everyone when I can and give an update when I can ^^.
I wish you all the best and I love you all ^^ God bless ya~
I'll be leaving at 4:30am tomorrow morning, but most likely won't sleep or I'd probably wake up late ><; Just gunna stay up all night and count down the hours haha.
We'll be stopping off in Japan first from 1pm-9:30am the next day, so we'll be staying at a hotel nearby the airport. We're thinking of going and exploring a little bit in Tokyo and buying a meal there ^^.
It's one of my many goals in life to go to Japan, so I guess I can finally check this one off my list ^^. Some other random ones I can think of is....
-Go to Australia and visit the Hillsong church
-Go to Texas and visit the Lakewood church
-Go to Korea and visit 5 of the biggest churches in the world
-Go to Egypt and explore the pyramids, and try to climb up one
-Go to Rome and see the Colosseum and eat real pasta
-Eat dog meat and other weird animals (might get to check this one off in China)
-Own a professional level guitar
-Have my first new hairstyle
-Create a band and record a CD
-Have an open vision from God
-Perform a miracle
-Get married
-Etc etc etc
Anyways, this marks a huge milestone in my life because I'm going to be going confidently and without fear into a place that should be feared haha. I'm just going to trust that God loves me enough to keep me safe, cuz He's already been good enough to give me the opportunity to live in Hawaii for 3 months, and then go to Japan and China! What a good God my God is xD. So glad I'm on His side haha.
Anyways, none of you will see me (most likely) for 2 months, so keep praying for me and wishing me luck xD. I'll contact everyone when I can and give an update when I can ^^.
I wish you all the best and I love you all ^^ God bless ya~
Monday, March 29, 2010
2 more days as of now
2 more days in Hawaii and then off to Japan/China we go. Monday we have a Love Feast which is like an end of the lecture phase party. We're supposed to dress up, but I don't have any nice clothes at all x.x; I didn't think to bring any before I came cuz I thought they said to bring sucky clothes that we wouldn't mind getting dirty. Apparently they said to dress up a bit for China too (not sure about Japan, but I'm guessing moreso). I guess I'm going to go extreme shopping in China and buy a lot of cheap decent quality clothes for factory price, heck ya xD haha.
I was talking to some people that went there, and this guy was saying he got Diesel clothes for $10!! In Canada, Diesel is a famous brand and sells for usually $100-500 for regular clothing :O! I so want to buy a suitcase and fill it up haha. "I'm here for missions, I'm here for missions, I'm here for missions, I'm here for missions @.@;"
My brother said there's this yellow dust that's been blowing in Korea and Japan. It's apparently from all the pollution in China, and he said in China it gets so thick that you cant see in front of you >.<; It causes lung problems...so hopefully my lungs will be ok...after all they've already been through. I better not end up in the hospital during this missions trip! God heal me!!
Well randomness, but apparently a Korean guy went to Japan to marry his life size pillow with an anime character on it. There's so many things wrong with that statement. First he just HAD to be Korean, second he married his pillow and takes it everywhere he goes, third the anime character is from a children's show about a girl with magical powers (kind of like sailor moon I think), fourth the anime character is like a little kid, fifth Japan actually allows marriages to pillows...etc. Man, our trip to Japan should be interesting haha.
I was talking with some of the white people from my group and told them about the above story and they were like o.O;!!! haha. I also told them some guys look/dress like girls and they were telling me they thought anime was like the weirdest thing haha. Kiley told me that there's a section of Tokyo that's all dedicated to Anime, so maybe I'll go check that out if I remember and see how many old men I see walking around with anime pillows haha.
Well I gotta wake up early on Monday so I'll post more later, see ya all and God bless ^^
I was talking to some people that went there, and this guy was saying he got Diesel clothes for $10!! In Canada, Diesel is a famous brand and sells for usually $100-500 for regular clothing :O! I so want to buy a suitcase and fill it up haha. "I'm here for missions, I'm here for missions, I'm here for missions, I'm here for missions @.@;"
My brother said there's this yellow dust that's been blowing in Korea and Japan. It's apparently from all the pollution in China, and he said in China it gets so thick that you cant see in front of you >.<; It causes lung problems...so hopefully my lungs will be ok...after all they've already been through. I better not end up in the hospital during this missions trip! God heal me!!
Well randomness, but apparently a Korean guy went to Japan to marry his life size pillow with an anime character on it. There's so many things wrong with that statement. First he just HAD to be Korean, second he married his pillow and takes it everywhere he goes, third the anime character is from a children's show about a girl with magical powers (kind of like sailor moon I think), fourth the anime character is like a little kid, fifth Japan actually allows marriages to pillows...etc. Man, our trip to Japan should be interesting haha.
I was talking with some of the white people from my group and told them about the above story and they were like o.O;!!! haha. I also told them some guys look/dress like girls and they were telling me they thought anime was like the weirdest thing haha. Kiley told me that there's a section of Tokyo that's all dedicated to Anime, so maybe I'll go check that out if I remember and see how many old men I see walking around with anime pillows haha.
Well I gotta wake up early on Monday so I'll post more later, see ya all and God bless ^^
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Departure of friends
So yesterday me and 4 others went out to BubbaGump restaurant. If you've seen the movie "Forrest Gump" then you know what I'm talking about. It's a Seafood (mostly shrimp) restaurant and we ordered A LOT. One of us was going to be going back to California, so it was a lil goodbye party. Check facebook for some pictures (get a facebook shin!).
We then went to the farmer's market and the girl who was leaving got a Henna tattoo (non-permanent tattoo) of the Chinese letter for peace. We then met up with a man who works there that we met on our community outreach. I said hi and when I said his name, he was kind of shocked because he said his name is really hard to remember and barely anyone remembers his name's Sanzo. He was a really nice man and tried to give us a $5 bag of macadamia nuts for free, but I insisted to pay, so he told us to meet him again when we come back ^^.
When we got back, it was leaving time for my friend and also a DTS group with 2 of my roommates. Kind of sad, but it's all good, just gotta wait 2 and a half months to see them again. I'm really looking forward to hearing their stories cuz this DTS was totally on fire this whole past week, so should be interesting xD.
But all of them leaving is making me realize how soon all of us are going to be split up around the world. Just 3 days left...and I'll be on a plane off to China, away from most of the people I met here and also with no contact (maybe) with everyone back at home.
I just gotta be strong and remember to do my best on the mission trip so that I have some awesome testimonies to tell them all about my journey in China ^^ Seemed like forever to get to this last week, but now that I'm living it, it seems so fast hahah How ironic.
Well see ya all later ^^ God bless~
We then went to the farmer's market and the girl who was leaving got a Henna tattoo (non-permanent tattoo) of the Chinese letter for peace. We then met up with a man who works there that we met on our community outreach. I said hi and when I said his name, he was kind of shocked because he said his name is really hard to remember and barely anyone remembers his name's Sanzo. He was a really nice man and tried to give us a $5 bag of macadamia nuts for free, but I insisted to pay, so he told us to meet him again when we come back ^^.
When we got back, it was leaving time for my friend and also a DTS group with 2 of my roommates. Kind of sad, but it's all good, just gotta wait 2 and a half months to see them again. I'm really looking forward to hearing their stories cuz this DTS was totally on fire this whole past week, so should be interesting xD.
But all of them leaving is making me realize how soon all of us are going to be split up around the world. Just 3 days left...and I'll be on a plane off to China, away from most of the people I met here and also with no contact (maybe) with everyone back at home.
I just gotta be strong and remember to do my best on the mission trip so that I have some awesome testimonies to tell them all about my journey in China ^^ Seemed like forever to get to this last week, but now that I'm living it, it seems so fast hahah How ironic.
Well see ya all later ^^ God bless~
Friday, March 26, 2010
Random Post
So 5 more days until China/Japan time :O! So close now, it's really exciting ^^. Kind of sad in a way because we'll have to say goodbye to everyone. Two of my roommates are going to be leaving on Saturday (tomorrow) and we'll be leaving on the Wednesdays at 7am, so probably have to wake up at 4am on that day x.x; Others I know are going to be leaving on the 1st of April so it's all pretty random.
Forget if I wrote this, but a few people are leaving to go back home (or already left). One of the guys in our outreach team actually went home because the leaders said he wasn't ready for outreach and he agreed that he had some stuff to take care of back at home. Same thing happened with a girl from the Call2All DTS, so we're having a goodbye lunch thing on Saturday before she leaves. I also found out that another girl from that DTS left yesterday and I didn't even know she was leaving o.O; She said she wasn't ready for her India/China outreach, but it's really sad to hear cuz I bet she would have done awesome there. She just had to believe more in herself in my opinion.
So on Wednesday we're leaving at 7am and arriving there at Tokyo airport at 1pm (not sure who's time), but we'll be staying there for 8 hours I heard until our next flight to China is ready. Because we'd have to sleep there overnight and the airport closes, the airport has given us a free stay at a hotel nearby which is totally awesome cuz we thought we'd be sleeping on benches haha. I think the airplane ride should be around 8 hours to Japan and then another 2 hours to China. Once I'm in China though, I probably won't be able to use the internet, or if I do, I probably won't write or post anything about Christianity because I don't want to make any trouble for the long term missionaries that live here. If you're going to write to me DONT write anything christian or religious or anything!! Unless you want to see my face after couple of years after I come out of a Chinese prison.
My leaders made an email address for the team that's more secure and harder for the government to read, so I put down my mom's email address for them to write to her in case anything happens. So if you don't see me online after 2 months and a half months, ask her what happened (if you can) haha.
Well I gotta go to class now, see ya all later ^^
Forget if I wrote this, but a few people are leaving to go back home (or already left). One of the guys in our outreach team actually went home because the leaders said he wasn't ready for outreach and he agreed that he had some stuff to take care of back at home. Same thing happened with a girl from the Call2All DTS, so we're having a goodbye lunch thing on Saturday before she leaves. I also found out that another girl from that DTS left yesterday and I didn't even know she was leaving o.O; She said she wasn't ready for her India/China outreach, but it's really sad to hear cuz I bet she would have done awesome there. She just had to believe more in herself in my opinion.
So on Wednesday we're leaving at 7am and arriving there at Tokyo airport at 1pm (not sure who's time), but we'll be staying there for 8 hours I heard until our next flight to China is ready. Because we'd have to sleep there overnight and the airport closes, the airport has given us a free stay at a hotel nearby which is totally awesome cuz we thought we'd be sleeping on benches haha. I think the airplane ride should be around 8 hours to Japan and then another 2 hours to China. Once I'm in China though, I probably won't be able to use the internet, or if I do, I probably won't write or post anything about Christianity because I don't want to make any trouble for the long term missionaries that live here. If you're going to write to me DONT write anything christian or religious or anything!! Unless you want to see my face after couple of years after I come out of a Chinese prison.
My leaders made an email address for the team that's more secure and harder for the government to read, so I put down my mom's email address for them to write to her in case anything happens. So if you don't see me online after 2 months and a half months, ask her what happened (if you can) haha.
Well I gotta go to class now, see ya all later ^^
Monday, March 22, 2010
Oppression?
One of the guys in my China team is actually doing his DTS a second time because he couldn't complete it the first time cuz of some stuff he had to sort out back at home. Anyways, he said that before everyone leaves, there's usually a lot of oppression from the enemy/Satan. I also heard that if Satan knows you're going to do something big or significant, then he'll do everything he can to scare you away from it, make you physically ill, etc. so that you can't.
From what I can see so far, some people are going back home because they're not ready apparently. I know of 2 people that are going home and one of them is a guy in my outreach (he actually left today). I was kind of surprised because I thought he was actually growing as a Christian, but he said he had to go back home to sort some things out before coming back to complete his DTS. So now our outreach group is down to 11 people ><;
There are still a bunch of people who need outreach money, one being my roommate. I really hope he goes on mission because he's changed a lot since he's come here, so would be great to see him come back and tell of all the stuff he saw and did. I'm really lucky and never really had to worry about money at all, so I can't imagine how hard it must be for the ones who still need their outreach money. They have no clue where the money's going to come from cuz their families aren't that rich, and they need like $2000+ in 1 week.
Lately and especially today, I feel like I'm being attacked more in a spiritual aspect. To those who dunno or don't believe in the spiritual realm, this will sound weird to you. Anyways, I don't really know how to explain it cuz I don't really understand it that well. Recently I've been feeling the Holy spirit inside of me a lot more constantly (like that feeling you get when you're really into praise, to those who've felt it in church). Like the feeling never really leaves me these days, which is very different than what I'm used to. Anyways, the attacking aspect tho, is that now that I can feel that, it feels like I'm more sensitive to the not so good spirits as well o.O; Like today I woke up and it felt like I didn't sleep at all even though I slept in. Right away I noticed this really weird bad feeling inside that wouldn't go away x.x; I was totally disengaged in worship in the morning which is really rare, but after hearing the teaching in class it got a bit better. I just figure I gotta deal with all my issues here in Hawaii before I go to mission or else it'll come up there and get worse. I guess I'll be praying a lot more and fasting a bit ><;
Well I'm just going to trust that I'll overcome it soon and be able to do great on mission. I think I need some prayers @.@;
Anyways, awkward place to end, but see ya all later. God bless~
From what I can see so far, some people are going back home because they're not ready apparently. I know of 2 people that are going home and one of them is a guy in my outreach (he actually left today). I was kind of surprised because I thought he was actually growing as a Christian, but he said he had to go back home to sort some things out before coming back to complete his DTS. So now our outreach group is down to 11 people ><;
There are still a bunch of people who need outreach money, one being my roommate. I really hope he goes on mission because he's changed a lot since he's come here, so would be great to see him come back and tell of all the stuff he saw and did. I'm really lucky and never really had to worry about money at all, so I can't imagine how hard it must be for the ones who still need their outreach money. They have no clue where the money's going to come from cuz their families aren't that rich, and they need like $2000+ in 1 week.
Lately and especially today, I feel like I'm being attacked more in a spiritual aspect. To those who dunno or don't believe in the spiritual realm, this will sound weird to you. Anyways, I don't really know how to explain it cuz I don't really understand it that well. Recently I've been feeling the Holy spirit inside of me a lot more constantly (like that feeling you get when you're really into praise, to those who've felt it in church). Like the feeling never really leaves me these days, which is very different than what I'm used to. Anyways, the attacking aspect tho, is that now that I can feel that, it feels like I'm more sensitive to the not so good spirits as well o.O; Like today I woke up and it felt like I didn't sleep at all even though I slept in. Right away I noticed this really weird bad feeling inside that wouldn't go away x.x; I was totally disengaged in worship in the morning which is really rare, but after hearing the teaching in class it got a bit better. I just figure I gotta deal with all my issues here in Hawaii before I go to mission or else it'll come up there and get worse. I guess I'll be praying a lot more and fasting a bit ><;
Well I'm just going to trust that I'll overcome it soon and be able to do great on mission. I think I need some prayers @.@;
Anyways, awkward place to end, but see ya all later. God bless~
Saturday, March 20, 2010
11 More Days
Ah, I want to hurry up and leave already. Hawaii is getting extremely boring now cuz after being at the beaches and getting burned like crazy...they don't seem so exciting haha. The downtown here is made up of like 20 buildings, literally, so not much to do there. Everyone here loves to go cliff diving on the weekends, but no point in going for me cuz I can't swim sadly. Hurry up and come China and Japan!!
Anyways, enough complaining. I really am stoked to see what'll happen in China/Japan. When I first saw the members in our team, to tell ya the truth, I was kind of thinking "Uh God, why did you put this group together? It just seems so random." When we had our first outreach prayer time, this week, I thought it'd just be whatever, but it ended up being a really spiritually intense time in my opinion. I was kind of wondering why this was, but then at our second meeting, one of the girls said she was asking God the same question and He said that the one common thing among our group is that we all really value our quiet time with God. Like it's not uncommon for us to just listen to praise songs on MP3 and meditate on God. When I heard that, I looked at the members around the room and it was so true! It was one of those eye opening kind of moments and it seemed more like God hand picked each member in our group to do something amazing on our outreach xD. Now I really can't wait to see what'll happen once we go to China ^^ Too bad I can't write about it while I'm in China, but I'll write a posting about just regular kind of stuff or code it all hehe. I might have to make a new blog just in case though, but I'll write the link on here once I do.
Oh Shin, are there any cultural things we should know about while living in Japan? I don't want to do anything that'll offend people without me knowing I'm doing it. I know I need to bow when I meet people, but is there anything else that's really important?
Anyways, enough complaining. I really am stoked to see what'll happen in China/Japan. When I first saw the members in our team, to tell ya the truth, I was kind of thinking "Uh God, why did you put this group together? It just seems so random." When we had our first outreach prayer time, this week, I thought it'd just be whatever, but it ended up being a really spiritually intense time in my opinion. I was kind of wondering why this was, but then at our second meeting, one of the girls said she was asking God the same question and He said that the one common thing among our group is that we all really value our quiet time with God. Like it's not uncommon for us to just listen to praise songs on MP3 and meditate on God. When I heard that, I looked at the members around the room and it was so true! It was one of those eye opening kind of moments and it seemed more like God hand picked each member in our group to do something amazing on our outreach xD. Now I really can't wait to see what'll happen once we go to China ^^ Too bad I can't write about it while I'm in China, but I'll write a posting about just regular kind of stuff or code it all hehe. I might have to make a new blog just in case though, but I'll write the link on here once I do.
Oh Shin, are there any cultural things we should know about while living in Japan? I don't want to do anything that'll offend people without me knowing I'm doing it. I know I need to bow when I meet people, but is there anything else that's really important?
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Hair is getting long...
This'll just be a short post. I already posted this on my facebook, but thought I'd put this up for Shin and others. Should I totally buzz my hair, or grow it out until I get to Japan and get a crazy haircut? The thing is...Japan is 2 months away, so it'll become really ugly and nasty by then (not that it isn't yet).
I know I know, I totally need conditioner, but I'm a poor lil YWAM student, so don't expect much >=O! Only thing really keeping me back from cutting it here is that it'll probably turn out really ugly if I try to get a trim...(bad experiences before with people trying to cut my hair). But if I get a buzz or shave it, most people in China might think I'm a Buddhist monk or have cancer. Not the best pic, but oh well.
Well tell me what you think ^^
Sore Muscles & Outreach talk
So on Sunday I helped out with the construction work happening to the new prayer room here. It's a LOT bigger than the one they're using now and they said they want to be able to do recording there and air the praise there on radio 24/7 xD. The day before, I went into the prayer room to catch up on readings...and ended up staying there for 5 hours! It was all my decision, wasn't forced or anything...didn't even feel that long cuz I was so into it (reading the Bible and praying) and by the time I went to my room, it was already 8pm o.o; Well on Sunday, a guy from my DTS woke up my roommate telling him that he should help out with the construction cuz they were short on men. I just suddenly felt like I should go and got up right away, got ready, and ended up going.
The whole week before they announced that the people from our DTS could volunteer and help out. There's about 70+ people in our DTS and the amount of people that came was...7 (3 of those were staff) haha. I thought all the leaders would come and help out but none of them came o.O; Even with our small numbers, we surprisingly got a lot done and everyone was really glad cuz we surpassed the quota for the day.
After that I ended up playing a few hours of basketball and looked like I just got out of the shower haha. My hair was so soaked, and cuz I haven't cut my hair yet since I got here, it looked pretty nasty xD. I'm debating if I should just shave it in China, or let it grow LONG and get a Japanese haircut in Japan (even tho it'll probably be PRICEY). My right ankle was so sore cuz I sprained it the week before and just put it through a lot of physical work, but even still, I decided to walk to Dennys which is a 15 min. walk with a hill at the end ><; To top it all off, it was raining when I walked haha.
Well now my body is aching and so sore >.<; But eh, it was fun, so it's all good xD. At Dennys I met a group of YWAMers that just came back from their outreach trip. One guy told me he got really sick and had to go to the hospital twice when he went to Rwanda, Africa. The doctors said they found an amoeba in his digestive system which cased him to diarrhea like crazy and such, and by the end of it, he said he lost 20 pounds :O!
While talking with them, I asked if they experienced anything crazy on outreach (cuz I always here about stories about people being demon possessed, or healing the sick) but they all were like "Umm....hmm...no not really" which kind of disappointed me in a way cuz I was thinking "If we're paying almost $5000 to go on our outreach, we better see something exciting" haha. Seemed like one of the highlights of some of their trips was like...texting people from other outreaches saying they're in prison (when they weren't) and finding out that some monkeys have blue balls >.>; They also told me not to have any expectations before going.....which made me think "What the heck, I had such high expectations...the heck?" So now I don't know what to expect or if this is pretty much just going to be a "trip" more than a mission. I'm really hoping it's not going to be and that their missions just sucked and that there's something more in store for our team, but I guess it's up to God. I don't really want to go back to Canada and have no stories to tell and come back the same and disappointed cuz that'll just seem like I wasted my time and my parent's money here.
Well anyways, I'm just going to go with high expectations anyways and just say "screw it, ours will be better >=O!"
Well on a different note, I went to Wal-mart with some friends and we all went on the scales to see if we lost or gained weight since coming here. This was the first time I weighed myself since I came to Kona, so I was kinda shocked at the result. When I first came here, I gained a bunch of weight and was 175 pounds (79.4 kgs), but now I'm apparently 164 pounds (74.4 kgs). What the heck, I lost 11 pounds :O!! I didn't really notice it cuz my hair makes my face look bigger, but my friends were like "Whoa! You totally don't look that light" which made me say "Wah? Are you saying I look fat? o.O" haha jk. Ya, so I bought a bunch of cup Ramen/Ramyun and some drinks to help me gain some weight, cuz I'm guessing in Asia I'm going to lose more weight (either from sickness or lack of eating). I'm hoping to hit at least 170 before I leave, so wish me luck.
Well I gotta go now, so see ya all later. Please keep praying for me seeing that I'm going to be leaving really soon, so a lil spiritual boost would be nice xD haha. God bless you all~
The whole week before they announced that the people from our DTS could volunteer and help out. There's about 70+ people in our DTS and the amount of people that came was...7 (3 of those were staff) haha. I thought all the leaders would come and help out but none of them came o.O; Even with our small numbers, we surprisingly got a lot done and everyone was really glad cuz we surpassed the quota for the day.
After that I ended up playing a few hours of basketball and looked like I just got out of the shower haha. My hair was so soaked, and cuz I haven't cut my hair yet since I got here, it looked pretty nasty xD. I'm debating if I should just shave it in China, or let it grow LONG and get a Japanese haircut in Japan (even tho it'll probably be PRICEY). My right ankle was so sore cuz I sprained it the week before and just put it through a lot of physical work, but even still, I decided to walk to Dennys which is a 15 min. walk with a hill at the end ><; To top it all off, it was raining when I walked haha.
Well now my body is aching and so sore >.<; But eh, it was fun, so it's all good xD. At Dennys I met a group of YWAMers that just came back from their outreach trip. One guy told me he got really sick and had to go to the hospital twice when he went to Rwanda, Africa. The doctors said they found an amoeba in his digestive system which cased him to diarrhea like crazy and such, and by the end of it, he said he lost 20 pounds :O!
While talking with them, I asked if they experienced anything crazy on outreach (cuz I always here about stories about people being demon possessed, or healing the sick) but they all were like "Umm....hmm...no not really" which kind of disappointed me in a way cuz I was thinking "If we're paying almost $5000 to go on our outreach, we better see something exciting" haha. Seemed like one of the highlights of some of their trips was like...texting people from other outreaches saying they're in prison (when they weren't) and finding out that some monkeys have blue balls >.>; They also told me not to have any expectations before going.....which made me think "What the heck, I had such high expectations...the heck?" So now I don't know what to expect or if this is pretty much just going to be a "trip" more than a mission. I'm really hoping it's not going to be and that their missions just sucked and that there's something more in store for our team, but I guess it's up to God. I don't really want to go back to Canada and have no stories to tell and come back the same and disappointed cuz that'll just seem like I wasted my time and my parent's money here.
Well anyways, I'm just going to go with high expectations anyways and just say "screw it, ours will be better >=O!"
Well on a different note, I went to Wal-mart with some friends and we all went on the scales to see if we lost or gained weight since coming here. This was the first time I weighed myself since I came to Kona, so I was kinda shocked at the result. When I first came here, I gained a bunch of weight and was 175 pounds (79.4 kgs), but now I'm apparently 164 pounds (74.4 kgs). What the heck, I lost 11 pounds :O!! I didn't really notice it cuz my hair makes my face look bigger, but my friends were like "Whoa! You totally don't look that light" which made me say "Wah? Are you saying I look fat? o.O" haha jk. Ya, so I bought a bunch of cup Ramen/Ramyun and some drinks to help me gain some weight, cuz I'm guessing in Asia I'm going to lose more weight (either from sickness or lack of eating). I'm hoping to hit at least 170 before I leave, so wish me luck.
Well I gotta go now, so see ya all later. Please keep praying for me seeing that I'm going to be leaving really soon, so a lil spiritual boost would be nice xD haha. God bless you all~
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Chinese name? and other random stuff
So one of my friends here is Taiwanese and he's really excited for our team to head into China. Lately he's been trying to make a Chinese name for each member of our team to make it easier for the Chinese to remember and pronounce. He said to give me my Korean name and tell me the meaning so that he can get the Mandarin version of the word to make up the name. In the end, my name is Song, Eun Song haha. Only thing that changed was the last letter chul -> song, which means wisdom. Kinda weird, but oh wells haha.
Man, I should totally make a Japanese name too haha. Make me one Shin xD haha jk jk. Probably end up being like "Man-who-eats-a-lot san" or something after translation. Well if all else fails, I'll just call myself Shin-chan haha jk jk.
Anywho, lately I've looked up some stuff about the Chinese underground church, and it's pretty crazy. They actually all meet up in abandoned buildings to praise God and worship Him (cuz its illegal in China). Here's a clip of a more recent video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do7jIUg6l0k . You're going to have to excuse the lame beginning, but you get to see what it's more like late in the vid.
I also was looking Japanese Christian praise, and the church in this clip actually has a lot more people than I thought. I heard Japan is one of the hardest places to tell people about Christianity and only like 0.01% are Christian o.o; Here's a clip of a Japanese church in Tokyo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCbe3EehrnI . I totally want to go to this church and praise in Japanese xD. Sounds so cool ^^. I remember a bunch of Japanese held a Christian Korean/Japanese concert in Japanese and English. It was to help with the tension between the two races and to bring them together through the church, and one of my friend's is a Korean/Japanese mix and ended up singing on the praise team xD. I missed it though cuz I didn't have a ride, and now totally regret it ><; But hopefully I can visit this church xD.
Well this is totally off topic but felt like sharing. So yesterday's service topic was all about the Father's heart and at the end while we were praying, the guest speaker said he just felt like God wanted him to say something that could be weird for us. He said something like "If growing up, you've never been hugged by your biological father or mother, I want you to take a step of faith and come to the front. All the older members or grandparents, I want you to come to the front as well and hug one of the students here, but when you hug, I don't want you to let go. Just hold them for a while." About 15-20 people came to the front and right when they got hugged, a lot of them broke down crying. It was really sad, but beautiful at the same time. Sad that even Christian fathers would feel ashamed to hug their own children, something that's actually hard for me to comprehend cuz my dad's always been pretty loving. Christianity is all about love, so its really sad to think of something like that, but it was really beautiful to see them being hugged and letting go of those past heartaches against their parents. Even the guys were balling their eyes out on an older person's shoulder, really touching moment.
Well anyways, this was a really random post, but oh well. God bless everyone ^^
Man, I should totally make a Japanese name too haha. Make me one Shin xD haha jk jk. Probably end up being like "Man-who-eats-a-lot san" or something after translation. Well if all else fails, I'll just call myself Shin-chan haha jk jk.
Anywho, lately I've looked up some stuff about the Chinese underground church, and it's pretty crazy. They actually all meet up in abandoned buildings to praise God and worship Him (cuz its illegal in China). Here's a clip of a more recent video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do7jIUg6l0k . You're going to have to excuse the lame beginning, but you get to see what it's more like late in the vid.
I also was looking Japanese Christian praise, and the church in this clip actually has a lot more people than I thought. I heard Japan is one of the hardest places to tell people about Christianity and only like 0.01% are Christian o.o; Here's a clip of a Japanese church in Tokyo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCbe3EehrnI . I totally want to go to this church and praise in Japanese xD. Sounds so cool ^^. I remember a bunch of Japanese held a Christian Korean/Japanese concert in Japanese and English. It was to help with the tension between the two races and to bring them together through the church, and one of my friend's is a Korean/Japanese mix and ended up singing on the praise team xD. I missed it though cuz I didn't have a ride, and now totally regret it ><; But hopefully I can visit this church xD.
Well this is totally off topic but felt like sharing. So yesterday's service topic was all about the Father's heart and at the end while we were praying, the guest speaker said he just felt like God wanted him to say something that could be weird for us. He said something like "If growing up, you've never been hugged by your biological father or mother, I want you to take a step of faith and come to the front. All the older members or grandparents, I want you to come to the front as well and hug one of the students here, but when you hug, I don't want you to let go. Just hold them for a while." About 15-20 people came to the front and right when they got hugged, a lot of them broke down crying. It was really sad, but beautiful at the same time. Sad that even Christian fathers would feel ashamed to hug their own children, something that's actually hard for me to comprehend cuz my dad's always been pretty loving. Christianity is all about love, so its really sad to think of something like that, but it was really beautiful to see them being hugged and letting go of those past heartaches against their parents. Even the guys were balling their eyes out on an older person's shoulder, really touching moment.
Well anyways, this was a really random post, but oh well. God bless everyone ^^
Monday, March 8, 2010
Another One Leaves
So today we had to gather for a 1:15am meeting out of the blue. We all gathered at the big area where we do corporate worship and they announced that a guy named Ben that's in our DTS was going to go home. He was caught doing some stuff before, so he had a chance to stay or go, but he decided to stay and try his best to behave. His dad even ended up coming to Kona, Hawaii to help encourage him which was pretty crazy because whose parents would do that? They all had big hopes for him, but then yesterday (I'm guessing) he got caught doing something again. I wasn't close to him at all and only talked to him maybe once, so I have no clue what he did, but ya.
So I guess this makes the 4th person to leave YWAM (another guy left, but ended up coming back [none of my old roommates]). Everyone then started to say words of encouragement to him that was pretty touching. At the start of it, one of the leaders walked up to him and gave him a hug for like 5 min. and whispered something into his ear. All the girls started crying of course, but it really was pretty sad. They were all saying stuff like "We're a family now, so even though we're going to be separated, know that you'll never be distant from us anymore because we're now related by blood, the blood of Jesus."
Well this guy's going to be leaving tomorrow morning and for a change, the one leaving isn't a Korean haha. Man, what's with Koreans and always being the trouble makers haha.
Anyways, this week the speaker is apparently really famous...and is from the city of Vancouver (where I'm from) and I totally didn't know who he was until I read his little profile in my binder, but apparently most of the Americans know him haha. I asked another guy from Canada (and from my city) if he knew him, and he had no clue haha. How ironic. Well he's speaking a lot on having a relationship with God by spirit pretty much. Like being in constant communion with God through your spirit to His spirit. Really different teaching than what I'm used to learning, but it's pretty interesting. I'll write more about it later most likely.
I forget if I wrote this, but they said we're going to get the lecture recordings, so I'll upload them eventually when I get them so you can all hear the kinda stuff we're learning.
Anyways, see ya all later, God bless.
So I guess this makes the 4th person to leave YWAM (another guy left, but ended up coming back [none of my old roommates]). Everyone then started to say words of encouragement to him that was pretty touching. At the start of it, one of the leaders walked up to him and gave him a hug for like 5 min. and whispered something into his ear. All the girls started crying of course, but it really was pretty sad. They were all saying stuff like "We're a family now, so even though we're going to be separated, know that you'll never be distant from us anymore because we're now related by blood, the blood of Jesus."
Well this guy's going to be leaving tomorrow morning and for a change, the one leaving isn't a Korean haha. Man, what's with Koreans and always being the trouble makers haha.
Anyways, this week the speaker is apparently really famous...and is from the city of Vancouver (where I'm from) and I totally didn't know who he was until I read his little profile in my binder, but apparently most of the Americans know him haha. I asked another guy from Canada (and from my city) if he knew him, and he had no clue haha. How ironic. Well he's speaking a lot on having a relationship with God by spirit pretty much. Like being in constant communion with God through your spirit to His spirit. Really different teaching than what I'm used to learning, but it's pretty interesting. I'll write more about it later most likely.
I forget if I wrote this, but they said we're going to get the lecture recordings, so I'll upload them eventually when I get them so you can all hear the kinda stuff we're learning.
Anyways, see ya all later, God bless.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Outreach Rough Draft Timeline!!
So today we had a little meeting with our outreach group and talked about the rough plan of what we're going to be doing in China/Japan xD. Shin, is it ok if you check what bands are playing during my Japan times? hehe. Anywhos, here's the plan:
March 31st - Departure from Kona, Hawaii
April 2nd - Arrival in China (I know, its weird arriving 2 days later, but apparently with the time difference, thats how it works xD Time travelling, here I come ^^)
Apr.24-25 - city: Dallian - lots of coffee shops here and there's a place where they teach english and the government actually allows people to sing english praise songs :O So we'll probably totally take that chance to sing and evangelize.
Apr.25-30 - city: DangDong - (3 hour long bus trip to get there) Join the DTS group there and meet up with Andy Byrd again.
May 1-9 - Potential road trip across the Korean/China border to meet up with the Christian underground house churches.
May 9-19 - city: Beijing - Go to Copeland concert and other religious stuff
May 20-31 - city: ChongChing - Mercy ministry teams (help random people) Intercessory praying and helping out the homeless (poor city).
May 31st - Take the train back to Dallion to take a plane to Japan
June 1-12 - city: Tokyo - House of prayer, join their DTS groups there, and maybe go to the parks and play some praise ^^
June 13/14 - Arrival back into Kona, Hawaii
So that's our really rough schedule for now ^^
March 31st - Departure from Kona, Hawaii
April 2nd - Arrival in China (I know, its weird arriving 2 days later, but apparently with the time difference, thats how it works xD Time travelling, here I come ^^)
Apr.24-25 - city: Dallian - lots of coffee shops here and there's a place where they teach english and the government actually allows people to sing english praise songs :O So we'll probably totally take that chance to sing and evangelize.
Apr.25-30 - city: DangDong - (3 hour long bus trip to get there) Join the DTS group there and meet up with Andy Byrd again.
May 1-9 - Potential road trip across the Korean/China border to meet up with the Christian underground house churches.
May 9-19 - city: Beijing - Go to Copeland concert and other religious stuff
May 20-31 - city: ChongChing - Mercy ministry teams (help random people) Intercessory praying and helping out the homeless (poor city).
May 31st - Take the train back to Dallion to take a plane to Japan
June 1-12 - city: Tokyo - House of prayer, join their DTS groups there, and maybe go to the parks and play some praise ^^
June 13/14 - Arrival back into Kona, Hawaii
So that's our really rough schedule for now ^^
Monday, March 1, 2010
Quest to Learn Japanese
So I'm going to be going on my mission in 4-5 more weeks, and so I thought it'd be a good idea to learn the language a tiny bit, so if I get lost, at least I could say some VERY basic stuff. I figured, there's no way I can learn any of the Chinese languages cuz they're way too hard and the pronunciations...eh haha. So I decided to try and learn Japanese at least. So far all I memorized is colors ^^. Lets see if I remember them...
Blue = Ao
Green = Midori
Pink = Momoiro
Black = Kuro
White = Shiro
Grey = Haiiro
Yellow = Kiiro
Red = Akai
Purple = Murasaki
Orange = Daidaiiro
Brown = Chaiiro
Sky Blue = Mizuiro
If I skipped any or wrote them wrong, please tell me hehe.
Right now I'm going to venture into learning some simple Japanese phrases ^^. Wish me luck everyone and if anyone wants to help me, I'd really appreciate it xD.
Blue = Ao
Green = Midori
Pink = Momoiro
Black = Kuro
White = Shiro
Grey = Haiiro
Yellow = Kiiro
Red = Akai
Purple = Murasaki
Orange = Daidaiiro
Brown = Chaiiro
Sky Blue = Mizuiro
If I skipped any or wrote them wrong, please tell me hehe.
Right now I'm going to venture into learning some simple Japanese phrases ^^. Wish me luck everyone and if anyone wants to help me, I'd really appreciate it xD.
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