It was heaps fun. Words can not really describe what I experienced.
The leaders, service team and everyone really were like super nice xD.
Everyone was just ... yeah heaps nice!!!
The singing and the praising was a bit awkward at first. But the sharing of stories from so many different people, really opened up my eyes to how much we should really praise God!!!
"God is Good, All the Time!!! God is where? Everywhere! Everywhere, God is there!!!"
I can't even begin to describe how much the weekend is going to change my life. Obviously everyone there was from uni and other tertiary which was really awesome coz we got to relate to each other in so many ways. I saw like grown men cry! It was sad, but the way they got through tough situations really got me thinking. That I shouldn't really take things for granted, and praise God for the wonderful things and works he has done.
The friends I made were really awesome! And on the last day we had this little graduation thing, because we were participants :) I was like OMGSH this is soo funny and awesome!
So at the next one, I'm going to be part of the service team and serve!!!
I really really want to go to OLC NZ too but I don't know if I can afford it atm. So I'm praying I'll be able to find some opportunity, or get a job or something.
But yeahh. It was crazy but soo amazing. And I think it was the right timing too. I mean uni life isnt really exciting. And because I do business and IT its really hard for me to find groups of people I can actually relate to or hang out with on a regular basis. I just really found it annoying and missed my old friends from highschool. Especially in this one class, the one I have on Monday, it's just super annoying. Like I wanted to cry sometime and I thought why am I even here!?
But after this camp I realised that I wasnt alone in this situation, and that other people had even bigger problems. And I didnt come to this camp hoping to be cured or to even think about my personal issues. (I really only went coz B told us for a while now to join :S) And it just kinda did it itself. I now have the confidence and a greater positive attitude about uni, and I'm glad its happening now coz its only my first year.
They also mentioned how hard it is to interact with people at uni, coz you know, we're not all Catholics or Christians. And I realised that straight away when I got home and went on FB actually. Coz a close friend of mine was like . . .
"So, How was Bible camp!?" As if to mock it or something!. Then of course it was followed by other comments from other close friends saying things like "WTF BAHHAH :0" and "Yepp thats right, whatever happened at fail bible study camp, stays at fail bible study camp!"
It was really sad actually. Like I wanted to reply but i just ignored it. It sad really, coz the people who did write these comments are going through a lot of things at the moment. I mean I didn't hear about it personally from them, but I guess on FB you learn a lot of things LOL. But no seriously. Like one of them constantly writes all these like negative hatred type statuses all the time, and the other one, well recently I found out that shes having issues with her BF.
I mean yeah, we can't all convert people to have a great faith in God and not everyone in the world is necessarily going to agree with a lot of things you choose to beleive. But if we can let them see that there actually are ways to have faith in the life, to move on, and adapt positive attitudes as servants of Christ, then seriously - Life will be good! :)
Thats some of the things I learnt from being part of YFC. And I only just begun so I'm so excited about what's to come! This one leader on the last day took me aside when during the BBQ lunch and we had a little talk. And she made me feel so comfortable, as if I can tell her anything and showed a lot of kindness and support. That's the type of person I hope become as I grow in this journey. I mean maybe instead to ignoring or arguing with my friends who don't
believe, I can show them support or a sense of understanding in what they are going through.
But yehh so many things happened on the weekend, I think its just going to slowly come to me. Because I didn't even know where to begin when I started to describe my experience.
It was just amazing and I cant wait to grow in faith and learn so many things and share it with everyone.
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