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We're so famous that we got in the papers. Well, what to do, we're so awesome. Maybe because the babes are too pretty are something.

Okay im supposed to post this picture ONLY. I'm talking way too much.

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Peilin

HEYA!

im about to share was about my mission trip to CHINA! are you ready PEEPS? I CANT HEAR YOU? OO00o.......

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Background-i am always trying very hard to find God in the things that i do and serve, but God keep playing hide and seek with me. ( it was because i was expecting something else but God show up in another way,yet i failed to realise it) .And at that point of time i really struggling whether my effort was worthwhile and was at the brink of giving up(AGAIN) and suddenly during discipleship, brother Rixiang ask me whether i would like to go for china mission trip, and i said yea. maybe i should give it a last try giving at least myself a chance and God a chance.

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Before the china mission trip, i purposely didn't let my cellgroup and others know that im going to china mission trip until the very last min.(like the week before the mission trip)

However the news got out ( cause people that was going MT with me didn't know the reason why i dont wanna tell people that im not going to mission trip, so they blurted it all out)



Well, the fact that i don't want to let people know that im going to mission trip until the very last minute, because being an backslidden christian that got out of leadership, people are surely giving me the looks that "hey! why is this guy going to china mission trip? moreover its a leader kind of trip, is he right for that job anot? are you sure he's prepared for it?"

Although they didnt really say this infront of me, but the looks on their face says it all.



Frankly speaking, it was a big discouragement,but i was already too excited and ecstatic to be bothered about it because it was brother Rixiang that gave me this rare opportunity to go to this Mission trip. it dint really affect me much at first but it did later on in the trip.( i'll explain again)



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During the trip i really learn to walk with God closely, like when i was afraid to approach a stranger, God used sister Diana and Weiyan to push me and help me along the way. God really do provide:like normally we see blessings like money, family togetherness. But for this case, it was group support, which is just what we need. God knows it all, and provided it along the way.

Through this group support, we learn to make full use of each others strengths, instead of picking on their weakness.

Weiyan- more of logic, sister Diana- process minded(step 1 first, then step two, then step three, on and on).



and thankfully through sister Diana,

God taught me the right way to improve my relationship with people, and with Him- i am that kind of person that likes to take shortcuts. as long as the final result seems ok, i'll tryin to take the shortest route. even if it means that i invent one, when i cant find one.



God also made conversations possible with the new found friends we made( its almost impossible to substain a conversation with a stranger for 30mins)

and we DID it in 4HOURS! amazing how it turned out to be when you really depend on God. Praise Him!



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ok. you've heared so much, and now you thinking that my faith and confidence with God and His plan are skyhigh.

yes, you're right! for the moment. and now, im not

that's when i remembered how people looked down on me, how i was being unfair etc.(com'on, im human, we're used to think negative things even where there's whole lot of positive things that could encourage us yet we chose not to. like i said, im not perfect)



just then, POOF! GOD did something miraculous in my life again!(wanna know about it? WANNA? WANNA? you're just as excited as me,even though im the writer myself ._.")

background -everynight before we sleep. we were suppose to share about our day and what we learn. we did it all, and its time to sleep cause we're so drop dead tired.

that night was the most memorable night ever.

brother Rixiang suddenly told us to encourage each other from our left and right (it was not planned,and we went even further to encourage everyone instead), and through that encouragment one-one(face to face),God gave me new found strength and confidence to stand firm for Him.Gosh! no words can really explain how God really impacted me.

like when im down, God just came in and whoosh! and blew me away with His works in me. Praise God again!

and of cause through the encouragement, we learn to speak whats on our mind and appreciate them with our mouths (which is so un-singaporean, so it was a breakthrough for all of us to really speak our hearts out to encourage one another)

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well, these are the testimonies that God gaved me through this amazing and wonderful mission trip and i Dare to challenge you guys out there! do not be determined by who people think you are, but be destined to who God thinks you are! have a little faith in yourself, and in God, cause look, He made a me a better man. and im sure He will to you, if you really let Him into your lives. and i really mean REALLY LET Him in. and really, as you can see when i was down, God gave me a situation to choose to work with Him,which i did (encouragement: like i said, its very un-singaporean to appreciate another verbally and you have to look at that person eyes somemore! im a shy boy too >< ), and through that He gaved me steel-like faith and confidence .that hey! i wasnt let our from God plan at all! and also dont bottle God up, because by doing that, we're limiting him, and we will not get the result because it is not God-given but man-given instead-LIKE what PD said, do mans way and get mans result. do Gods way and get Gods result;) ____________________ smexy LIBIN-zealot 1.2