anyways we had quite an exercise-ful morning trying to find ubc. we asked so many security guards where the church was but they led us to anotehr english speaking one which was not ubc so we walked around the wrong part of campus for quite awhile and we got quite sweaty haha in the end someone drew us a map to where ubc really is but we were so late after getting lost so we went to kibc's english service instead. after that finished we decided to finish our mission in finding ubc and we MADE IT after asking another security guard XD we felt like detectives collecting clues...
we were early at ubc for their canto-mando service so we sat around. the lady who welcomed us was so nice and talked to us a bit =) and we sat in the second row so we could read the powerpoint lyrics cause i have bad eyes >_< but it was gooood cause God prepared a meeting between us and the pastor who was so friendly to us too! and he had english and was very helpful linguistically and just being welcomingggg. i think that was one of the most heartwarming things about this church.. that so many people came to shake our hands and say hi after the service when we had to announce our names to the whole church =P
anyway what i reaaally liked about the service/church as well was how the pastor's message was really oriented towards like... hong kong people. like he was talking about how hkers tend to think about themselves and just care about getting rich and stuff and i thought that was really important to kinda.. acknowledge that especially in hk where that is so apparent. and he had a story about a fox (i think it was a fox) who was passing by a grape? yard and he saw them and they looked super good so he wanted some. but to pass into the grapeyard you had to be able to fit through a fence which had very narrow gaps. so what he did was he starved himself for awhile til he was skinny enough and he entered and ate to his heart's content. when he was finally done with the eating he tried to leave and found that he couldn't cause he was too fat! so in order to get out he had to starve himself again until he got skinny enough to leave. the pastor then related it to US! we're like the fox and the grapeyard is like the world. we go into this world with nothing and we take in all the "good" things this world has to offer but in the end, we will leave this world as we came in, with nothing. i thought this was completely.. wowing. the story really gave a really good illustration. the things of this world.. are... well, worldy! they don't last but God is eternal =) gotta set that straight in my life!
then after we discovered that joses was at church! we all walked back to the subway and sent jenny home and joses and i grabbed lunch and i myself headed home to take a nap. i wanted to help my cousin move! but i couldn't contact my other cousin in time so i just went homeee. i finally got to offer my seat to a old person today. i esp like to offer it to old people cause thye are so cute! lol i am always scared to offer it to people who seem lk they are getting old but not really old yet becuase they will be offended that i think they are old XD and at night went out to dinner with irene, wendy, janita and ariel! ariel brought us to such a nice place! it was so goood and classy =) and had a fun fun time with them ^^
anyways~ what a blessed day! i had a really good morning with jenny haha we laughed so much at a lot of random stuff like how we couldn't read chinese words and our epic fail of finding ubc haha and took irene on the tram for her first time! thanks joses for going to lunch with me since i dind't have anyone to eat with =P anyways what i'm saaaying is God has blessed me with a lot of brothers and sisters in hk and i've had a really really great time getting to know them better :) leaving in two days for china and i won't be able to go to church there =( so gotta be diligent wiht my devos!
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