*This is gonna be one of my long, wordy posts so if you don't want to read you guys can just exit. x*

Hello! These past few days have been so fun, I can't even describe everything in words. From Friday night to Sunday, I went for post encounter camp with my cell. It was so meaningful, I love these kind of equipping camps that teach you more and more about the Word of God.  

The first night, we watched this movie Facing The Giants. It's about this football coach, Coach Taylor, and about how his life is in a mess and how God helped him through. I totally recommend this movie. It's so inspiring and you can really watch how throughout the whole movie, each character grows and learns more about God in their own ways. 

My favorite scene was when Brock had to do the death crawl. It's when he has to carry Jeremy on his back while he crawls on all fours. Usually players only do the death crawl 10 yards but this time Coach Taylor wanted Brock to do 50 yards, blindfolded.

Brock collapses to the ground. The coach falls to the ground in front of him.

"I can’t make it to the sixty. I don’t have anymore." 

Brock whispers his face buried into the turf. The coach removes his blindfold.

"Look up Brock. You're in the end zone."

"Brock you are the most influential man on this team. If you walk around defeated so will they. You just carried a hundred and forty pound man across the field. And God has gifted you with the ability of leadership. Don’t waste it."

The young man who Brock has been carrying steps in and says, "Uh, Coach."
"Yeah, Jeremy. What is it?"

“I weigh one sixty.” 

I swear this scene was so touching I almost cried. It just really shows me how you can do anything as long as you don't give up and if you give it your very best.

The next day we had to do a faith walk for one of the activities. We were blindfolded and we had to do a series of obstacle courses (I have no idea what they're called) and physical activities like jogging on the spot, jumping, half squats for 30 - 45 mins straight under the hot sun. It was at least 37 degrees celsius out. They kept on asking if you want to give up, just raise your hand. If you want to know what's going on, just stand up and we'll show you. 

I think the scene about the death crawl really inspired all of us to just continue to press on and finish what we started. My friend has a history of gastric pains and during that activity, it started acting up. My cell leader asked, "Do you want to continue?"
"Can I just stop for a while and come back?" "No, if you want to rest you have to give up completely." ... "It's okay I'll go on." 

I FEEL SO PROUD HAHA.

Oh boy, and every church camp I go to I'll always have that one embarrassing moment that everybody makes fun of. For the low elements, we had to combine with the guy groups and we joined with Solomon's. Heehee, my eye candy was there. LOL so my cell leader, Grace, asked us to go and say hi. I was the only one who turned around and waved but nobody was looking at me so... *ignored* hahaha. Then suddenly Grace went up to this guy who was staring into space in my direction and asked why he ignored me. 

Him: She waved at me??
My reaction: O_O WHAT?! Wait, I didn't...!! *Then I started laughing so hard and I couldn't explain myself*

Soooo after that incident each of our cell groups kept on teasing us and I think it gave him the wrong idea. He kept on staring throughout the rest of the camp and when my cell saw this they would tease even more which made him think that I like him back. 

Sigh, major facepalm. I love my cell but sometimes they are SO immature. Especially Ce. When we were whatsapp-ing yesterday she was like, "Aren't I the most mature one out of you peeps?" (Her exact words) 

I literally laughed out loud, please everyone knows I'm the mom of the group. I grew up too fast, I WISH I was more childish. This is one of my peeves, when people think that they are something or someone they are clearly not and they're so arrogant cause of it. 

Kez's reaction: NOOOOO
Me: No

Just had to get that off my chest, sorry. 

On the last day of camp, we had this activity where we had to stand in the box marked out with raffia string and everybody had this white cloth pinned to their backs with their name on it. Then outside, our facilitators would throw pink water bombs at us and we had to keep our cloth clean. It was super fun, everybody was running around laughing and screaming. I sort of forgot about my cloth halfway, I was just having fun. HAHA at the end of it all, my white school shoes turned pink! It was seriously just a shade of hot pink thanks to the water bombs. (The water had red food coloring in it) I soaked my shoes in bleach after that but it's just a lighter shade that's all, lol. 

The box represents the world, the cloth represents our hearts and the water bombs represents the thing of this world that can tempt us and cause us to sin. At the end of the activity, Pastor Danny took this boy's hot pink cloth and washed it in bleach. It came out completely white and as clean as it was before the activity.

The bleach represents the Holy Spirit and how it can cleanse us of our sins when we confess. It was so symbolic I honestly felt tears in my eyes. I've learnt so much during this camp and I know that none of us were there by choice. I really thank God that I could attend this camp. 

WOAH this is a super long post, sorry! Well I'm going on holiday tonight so I guess this'll make up for everything. (: 

I still have so much I need to say, guess I blog again when I get back. Here's a really nice song that I'll always love;

Laura Story - Blessings

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise

A singer for God. A baseball jacket. My own laptop. Own a pair of Toms & Vans. Pierce my ears. Learn how to play the guitar. Dance in the rain. Ride the Tower of Terror in Tokyo Disneysea again. Master nail art. Learn how to do a french braid. I wanna be blown away, I wanna be swept off my feet, I wanna meet the one who makes it hard for me to breathe. I wanna be lost in love, I wanna be your dream come true, I wanna be scared of how strong I feel for you. I want to fall in love. I want to look at the clouds with him. I want to find myself again. I want to be happy.