Catalysis: Making things go, faster!

Yo, so a few weeks back, maybe more than a month ago, I got to go to an info meeting thing about this group calle Global Vision, the things they do, and the opportunities they have for students.

A lot of what they do is Foreign Trade Missions so there was a lot of stuff about business and economics and stuff.

We were separated into groups for a challenge. We were to do some branding. See what our group could offer and then pitch / sell ourselves.

Since I was in Biochem and the rest of the team was commerce, business, finance, etc, they chose to go with the scientific aspect as our selling point as the majority of the room was also in those other business majors.

So below is the rough outline of our presentation and my bit about the name of our group: Catalysis.

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1. Team introductions. (individual)
2. Explaination of what our group can offer. (Trevor)
3. Explain what Catalysis is. (Dylan)

As I mentioned earlier, I am studying biochemistry and you may be wondering, what is Catalysis? The word comes from a biological process, so let me give you a short explaination.

Speaking from the point of biological systems, when you try to build a macromolecule, try to make the large useful compounds necessary for the well being, survival and growth of the organism, there are many barriers to this happening; energy, concentration, location, and others.

But when you add a catalyst, those barriers are overcome. The process that may not have happened or had gone slowly before will rapidly advance forward leaving little but the desired products.

This is what our group does with our skill set and knowledgable background; we make things go, faster.

Whether it is international or right here in Canada: we can give you the opportunities to catalyze your ambitions and get things going.
"

Yep. As irrelevant as much of what I sat through there was to my program, it was pretty cool. The speakers talked a lot about the global stage and how things that happen here in our city, affect what happens in our country, and even the world.

"Everything we do in this city / this country is linked to what is happening in Asia and Europe and the world"

And that's pretty cool. But really awesome to see how true it is. Like my friend DL is gonna go back to China after his exchange is finished, but unlike when he got here, he'll be going back with a new hope and joy and abundance of life through his relationship with Jesus. Through the little things we have done here in Ottawa, God chose to work and reveal His glory and now He can do that again when DL goes back and shares the gospel with friends and family.

=D

I was at that event because they ar woking with Parks Canada and have the 'Youth Ambassador' program, which sounds amazing and would count as co-op this summer. Lol. So that'd be awesome, but I don't know if that's what I should be doing this summer. I mean, I want to experience a different city or ttravel during the summer, but the point of me doing co-op was to see if Sciemtific jobs is where I should be going or not...

Dunno.

Lol

Ttyl

D.Fa

PS. Have barely moved since the last post... Haha. If only this line was catalysed. Haha.

Urbana 12: International Family

Yo guys!

I'm at the border crossing just a bit North of Detroit right now! We've been travelling for a long time. Haha. I got on the bus from Montreal at 4:30 with another 15 or 20 people and we've pretty much been driving.

The guy beside me is awesome. Lol. He's an international student from China who is doing his masters in Economics at Dalhousie and by God's grace heard the gospel last year in California and in his brokenness accepted Christ as his saviour! From a life of negativity and depression he found true joy and life. He was baptised this summer on his birthday and just experienced his first Christmas at his pastor's house in Halifax before flying to Ottawa to get on the bus. So, long day for him. Lol

My night has been pretty cool. Got to know him pretty well; still listening to Andrew Huang's free remix album which I put on my phone earlier; read a bit; pit stop.

Then I got to meet the two sitting in front of me. That started with the girl trying to figure out how the song 'Still' goes, so we pretty much sang it together. Apparently they had been talking about those times when you don't hear so much from God. Anyways, they are both from Montreal. Not originally. She is Korean, and he is a quarter Malaysian (the rest being Chinese. Lol). We ended up singing old school worship songs with a guy a row up and a girl another row up. Lol. We also played a game: "Fortunately, unfortunately."

Randomly ran into AY at a pit stop. Was hoping to see him, but really have no way of planning it once I cross this border. Lol

Ummm. Lots of sleep?

Oh! And we watched 'Elf'! Best time I'd ever seen it. Realized the story is a little thin in development, but ya, whatever, Zooey Deschenel(sp?) is in it! So I actually paid attention this time. Lol. I don't especially like Will Ferrell.

Anyways, this is my goodbye for the week. I'll be back on the 1st of January. Maybe once in between.

Oh, Urbana 12 is happening in St. Louis and is gonna be crazy! The Korean girl reminded me about it: worship in many different languages with 50 000 people!?! Crazy awesomeness!

So ya, see you later guys! DFTBA

D.Fa

PS. While I am gone my blog will hit 15000 pageviews from like tons of countries. This isn't because of me, but because of you guys and ya, thanks! I'm glad you take the time to read about what God is doing in Canada and around the world in my life. You guys are like a third family that I just send update letters to and sometimes I forget you exist. Lol.

Grace that is Greater

Yo, so, you still remember the two reasons I don't blog? Well, ya, I'm not really busy right now, so it's kinda the other one that is why I haven't been blogging.

I guess, my relationship with God has been on the rocks and I haven't been prioritizing properly and ya, I fell into sin a little bit.

But that's stupid! So yesterday I spent like 2 hours reading my Bible, praying and singing worship songs.

This is what stuck out to me:

Jer 26:13: "Now reform your ways and your actions and obey the Lord your God. Then the Lord will relent and not bring the disaster he has pronounced against you."

Jer 29:13-14: "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you and will bring you back from captivity."

The rest are from songs:

-In Christ Alone
No guilt in life. No fear in death. No power of hell, no scheme of man can ever pluck me from His hand. Here in the power of Christ I'll stand!


-The Saving One
What mercy was revealed, my fate was surely sealed until He rescued me. His pardon for my sin, His bounty for my need, from slavery and chains I am redeemed.

No fear can hold me down, nor darkness steal my joy. Blood has been poured out, the enemy destroyed.

Jesus is the Christ, the Saving One.


-The Righteousness of Christ
How can I dare speak to You at all? I was born with unclean lips. I have tried in vain to run and hide, yet every corner You are there, from two womb You've known my secrets. Yet with a Father's love You've chased me down, embraced me as Your son, with a heart of joy You run to me.

Naked I fall with nothing at all. You alone can clothe me, so I can stand before thee. I can be pure, but only if You would clothe me in the righteousness of Christ.


-Aftermath
The hands that cradle the stars are the hands that bled for me.

My freedom found in your scars, in your grace my life redeemed. You chose to take the sinner's crown as you placed your crown on me.

In that moment of surrender you were broken for all the world to see. That was the moment you broke the chains in me. Lifted out of the ashes, I am found in the aftermath.


-Light has Come
Good tidings to the world, to the weak and the broken down. In a small, poor and dirty town light has come. A baby splits history, Emmanuel, Savior, King. Come sinner let your eyes see. Light has come.

God sent His Son, cradle, cross, to the crown. He stepped down from His throne to the world that He loves. Light has come, God with us

In His name our chains will shatter, for unto us is born. A Son, our God is with us, this Christmas morn’. Now the chains are torn asunder, all oppression is undone. To the glory of our Father, this Christmas morn’.


So, ya, I'm pretty glad that God has apportioned so much grace to us, but for sure I can't keep living like this. haha. I can't earn my own righteousness, but God himself would come down to Earth and take the punishment for us, so that we could stand before Him one day, and more importantly that we could come to know Him personally and live with Him even now. And that's what Christmas is about, God coming down to us because of His love for us..

Merry Christmas!

D.Fa

2 Pet 3:9

Yo, so, just saying it's like 8:30am in China right now. I don't know if that means anything or not. My brother said 7:11am was it, but I don't know what time zone.

Anyways, you've no doubt heard something about the world ending tomorrow and I just want to say I don't really want it to end yet.

Last night my mom, my brother and I were talking and she said she didn't know where she was going if it did end. She said she'd try her best, but ya... That basically means no. So, ya, I don't want the world to end yet. Even if he was joking, as my brother left for his 'end of the world party' he said he'd be going to hell. My dad jokingly said he could always ask me for a drive (to heaven..?).

Ya, so that's where my family is at.

My friends are at similar places.

No one that I know personally, really think the world is going to end.

For the one who trusts in Jesus Christ, their future is secure. Whatever happens, they have trusted in Christ's death on the cross to pay for their sins and become a new creation; however long it has been since then, they have lived life abundantly and have started eternal life by their relationship with God even while still on Earth. But it is the people who do not have this relationship with God yet which is why I don't want the world to end.

If the world ended tomorrow, my family would be gone. My friends would be gone. People around the world who don't know Christ yet would be gone.

That would suck.

I really want my friends to come to know Christ as their saviour and live life with a new hope, a new light, a new life. I'm gonna keep praying for them.

D.Fa

-2Pet3:9 "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." Amen.

22 Hours

It's almost that time again, exams are nearly finished and Christmas is around the corner.

I just need to cram all day tomorrow and write an exam at 7pm.

I got to talk a little bit about evolution today with my friend. haha. He seriously asks the best questions and he says Revelation is the most interesting book in the Bible because of all the symbolism. I seriously can't wait for him to accept Christ as his saviour. Then we can actually be brothers.

Last day at work until the New Year. Took a break to go study. >.<

Exams stink. lol.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

2 Tim 2:13

Hey, so today was cool. lol.

First thing that happened was Children's Sunday school. I got to officially meet some of the kids since I got there a little early. haha... Then we had a lesson about Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted. We should mourn for the evil in the world and pray for God to be working His salvation in great ways. Then, downstairs, CC told me she had sent her support letter to her support coach. And I said "wow, you're way ahead of me" which she then flipped on me saying "you've only got 10 days to raise ___!" Wow. Eyes open now. lol. I kinda forgot about that deadline. lol.

The other day, yesterday actually, when me, DL, AO and JB met up to do a Bible study thing, one thing that we talked about was really truly trusting in God, like not making back up plans for when God doesn't come through, but to trust that He will, because He can and will come through when we trust Him for those things. One specific example was support raising for a project. You are praying for God to provide the funds, but are also planning to take out a loan if the money doesn't come through..? That doesn't show any faith in God.

Well, just a couple hours ago I was at work and I put two and two together.

I had been support raising to go to Urbana after Christmas and I had been praying for God to come through. I had a lot of people to email and talk to and contact. But then Support raising for Haiti was coming along and it was basically like I had a week to get the remaining amount, which was quite a large percentage of the cost. I really had not sent enough personal emails. With time running low I was getting desperate. I had a few more shifts at work last week than normal. I thought, "oh, God must be providing for this through my finances", but then of the few emails I had sent God supported me fully through a few supporters.

Even though I was ready to rely upon my works, and just forget about what I had asked for, God still came through and there's so much more I am thinking right now about the future, but in everything to praise Him for what He has done in answering prayers and providing our every need in Him.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. RL and JC's baptism today?! Yeah buddy!

Ice King

Yo, so the last few days have been pretty difficult. lol... Two pretty hard exams, and a whole lot of cramming. I also played some dominion on Wednesday, which was pretty awesome.

Anyways, I haven't done any work today, but I got to meet up with DL and AO and JB for a Bible study. And ya, this was the second time JB was there. He came Thursday morning too and it was awesome seeing how he also sees the great awesomeness that is the excitement DL has for learning more about God. Haha. Like seriously, it's mega awesome. Everyday we meet up is better than the last he remembers everything we read and talked about. xP And last time both DL and KC prayed without us asking them to, which is awesome. Haha.

Anyways, I really should do some work tomorrow.

Ttyl guys

D.Fa

Falling Back

Yo, so, I did end up falling even further back momentarily and it has really messed with my head.

You know, the whole 'we are no longer sinners, but saints who sometimes sin' thing? It's kinda messy. Like, there is definitely freedom in Christ from sin, and indeed we will not suddenly overnight be free from all sin since we are still living in the flesh, but when you have been seeing victory in a certain area for so long it freaking sucks to be back at square one. But on the other hand, it's not like in this area I was even winning fully considering our thoughts also must be sanctified and they definitely have not been recently.

But since falling a bit further my mind has just been drowning in bad thoughts. I can't study without my mind wandering. So when it did I just had to quit and take a break, get back to the word, and that took the form of a SCF lesson, which oddly enough was about the main battle ground of our spiritual warfare: the mind.

But ya, I just need to be in the word and in fellowship with Christ more. My record-breaking streak means nothing, since it was never myself doing that. I am not back at square one, my relationship with God has definitely grown since the summer.

After the lesson, I ended up on youtube and from a video of a guitar cover of radio head, I got to a song by Starfield called 'Speak Now Jesus' and it really fit where I was at.

"The noise of life is overwhelming, drowning out the truth that I need, open up my ears to hear, open up my ears to hear.
Speak now Jesus, Speak into my heart, I am desperate to hear your still small voice. I need to hear your voice.
Lead me Jesus, I need direction. I am so lost, without you guiding me. I need to know your peace.

When you speak I'll listen; where you lead, I'll go"

I can't do it without Him. I seriously need to hear from Him more.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

僕は大きい馬鹿だよ

Yo, so as you can kinda tell from my last post, I have been doing stuff on my own recently, not spending time with God "because I am too busy", and that makes me a big idiot. I have been feeling really tempted and useless and not getting anything done really.

But God is faithful and really super awesome. Haha. So, even though I was going my own way and heading towards destruction, God stopped me and brought me out. I text a couple of my brothers in Christ, and as usual they suggested I go for a walk. Haha.

So I went. There's a park right across the street, like a couple blocks away. I left my phone at home and went.

Earlier, because I nearly failed, I went back online to SettingCaptivesFree.com, where I had been doing a 60 day course, and hadn't been for about a week. And starting from here I got to see how, like, the whole Bible is solid and the books all agree with one another even though written thousands of years apart.

First, at SCF, was a lesson on being a new creation in Christ referencing 2 Cor, and Rom, but the main focus of the lesson was on creation, back in Genesis. When the world was formless and empty and dark and the land submerged below the waters, God spoke light into the world and on the third day rose the land to life and fruition. In the same way, Jesus was put to death for our sins and on the third day rose to new life, also giving this new life to those who would trust in Him.

Then I went to the park and read a few chapters in Jeremiah. But the very first thing I read was Jer 3:22 "Return, faithless people, I will cure you of backsliding", which is exactly what had been happening to me without God. Convicted. Haha. Anyways, I prayed a lot and kept reading. Jer 4:22 "My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good." and verse 23 "I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone." and there was a whole lot more about destruction coming from the north, but a remnant being kept alive, and about sin being the reason for all this destruction, and that the people would be like branches of a grape vine, being cut off (like in John 15:5/6).

That's a whole lot to take in, and I don't always get application when it comes to Old Testament, especially prophets. Obviously step 1: Return to the Lord. But I felt I should read 1 Pet, where I had left off in my reading plan for the New Testament.

I read the first chapter. Haha. Verse 3 "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead". "You may have had to suffer all kinds of trials" "be self-controlled" and Peter quoted Leviticus in verse 15/16 "But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."" "you were redeemed from the empty way of life ... with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect" (18/19). And it goes on to encourage us to love our brothers sincerely because we "have been born again" through the word of God that stands forever (then he quoted Isaiah 40:6-8).

Basically, even from Gen and Lev, to the prophets Jer and Isa, to the gospels such as John, or the Epistles of Paul and Peter, the Bible told one story of a faithless people whom God called out to again and again and foretold of His Son Jesus Christ coming to pay the price that we may be born again and come to know Him and have real life, not the emptiness we used to live in.

So, I'm a little in awe. Haha.

God is faithful to the end even when I'm an idiot. haha.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Everything is Due Monday

That was the motto of the last week.

Today was the last day of classes for the fall semester at Carleton University, so I had 3 assignments and a formal lab report due today.

I have also been very sick, so I just need to get to Tuesday and I'll be fine. haha.

Gotta sleep!

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Priant Pour L'Amour

I had a moment earlier:

I had been driving around all day doing stuff, practice for the Christmas concert, small group leader training course thingee, lunch with SM and AT, scanning the car registration at my parents, etc.

I was driving home when I like sped up and went around an ambulance to get home faster. (it wasn't flashing. haha.)

I ended up nearly skidding into a car slowing behind a turning car. (It was really rainy)

The ambulance passed me.

And I just thought, why is it I do these things?

I get involved in so many things and have no time to even get better when I am sick. But why?

"If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 13:2

That's what I was feeling. And so for the rest of the drive that's what I did, pray for love.

The Things I Would Do

Yo,

so, these days seem to go as follows:

||-wake up to alarm
-get out of bed
-go over to alarm
-turn off alarm and set for 5 minutes from now :| 10-20 times

Once that section is done:

-morning routine, shower, breakfast, pack bag, brush teeth, etc.
-go to school
-classes
-meetings
-studys
-lab reports
(optional 5 hours of work)
-go home
-eat / watch anime
-go to sleep.

And so it repeats.

Tonight I had my BIOC3006 lab exam. It wasn't so bad. I probably should have studied 3 times as much, but somehow God got me through it. Lab report was supposed to be due Friday and so I would be typing furiously right now, but she said she'd push it to Sunday night? So, temporary freedom, but I'm actually way too busy for that to change anything, so tomorrow I'm back at it.

But there are things I would like to do, but don't have time for:

-wash the dishes
-sleep and get better (a little sick now)
-update my budget
-learn to draw better
-learn to play guitar better
-have time to be a keener and do prelabs for next semester
-figure out which praise team songs actually are "JK songs" by scientifically calculating the frequency they are sung as well as by which praise team leader

I feel like there was more, but I am at a loss right now. haha

[Definitely is. Haha. I also want to:
-figure out how I met all my facebook friends and do statistical analysis on that
-type out my blog posts from August VBS in Brooklyn and Frosh Week in September]

Anyways,

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Zombies and Produce

Yo. I should have done more work today. lol...

Anyways, I want to tell you a small story.

I work in produce at a grocery store and I have been through many many annoying situations when it comes to scheduling my shifts due to the amount of work I usually have, or other extracurricular things, but ya, this has always been easily fixed.

This year has been a bit more difficult. With having so many less people working full time and all the part-times busy with school or other jobs we've been really tight to get a full schedule for the week.

Another point to mention is that the schedule is only visible in person, not online. This is partially what has caused the problems, me not seeing it in time, or assuming my shifts were the same as they usually were. So recently I had been texting a friend to check for me on Sunday what my shifts were for the week ahead. Specifically Monday, 2-10 or 5-10?

This week she text me on Friday that I was working 9-2 on Sunday.

...

I'm leading worship this week.

My new brother in Christ DL is coming with me again.

I'm supposed to be in the gr7/8 Sunday school.

I'm meeting SC's friend at the train.

...

No. I cannot. Can anyone else? She kinda said it didn't look like it.

I was freaking out. My boss said he'd ask me in advance if he wanted me outside the 5-10 M/T shifts..........

So I was thining worst case scenario I ask SM or KK to lead for me and NE to do Sunday School and I don't know. It would have sucked...

Thank God the JH still kinda works with me! I text him (I probably haven't talked to him in a while....... and even then mainly only when I need a replacement at work... lol) and he said he could do it! =D

So, I'm pretty happy about that. lol

Anyways, Minecraft is too addicting and zombies keep killing me, but I found a spawn point!!!! =D

D.Fa

Roller Coaster

Hey!

So yesterday was ok. I have a long list of things I need to do, so it's a bit tough getting things done.

I was nearly late for DG. I didn't prep enough. Haha. But it was good. Just having that extra 15 minutes and not getting so derailed by a launcher question really helped. Lol. We were looking at 'My Story' since the guys had been asking about testimonies. MT suggested I intro it now as what my DG will do nect semester. Definitely a good idea. I showed YI's story and my story. I tried showing MM's but it stopped loading... Haha.

Anyways, point is that they are already thinking about how to write it, where to shoot the video, editing and all that stuff. Haha. Apparently both CX and RY have video editing experience and CX has made some videos for church before. They all agreed though that making it alone would be tough and that we should all work on it together. =D

My DGers are awesome. Lol.

Then I was going to go to my parents' house before work, but ended up chilling in the Architecture studio for a bit with AY. I got to see H(?) again and see the 2D laser cutter!!!!! Crazy! Lol. Smelled so good. Lol.

I got really annoyed at work though. It seems like during the day hardly anything happens with regard to the part I usually do. I kinda can't wait to stop working there. Lol. 5 years will be more than long enough. I did take a 40 minute break and just read Isaiah and that was pretty sweet though, but I don't get paid when I do that and I could do that at home instead of a 20 min bus ride away... Whatever. It's good that I can take breaks and read.

After I drove home mad I got to see my mark for the Organic midterm. I was pretty happy. Instead of studying I got tto see a new brother come to know Christ, but then I thought I was gonna fail the midterm. I apparently did pretty well. Thank God.

My mood definitely depends way too much on my marks though.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Aujourd'hui n'était pas Samedi.

Well, I have no time to blog right now, so this is kinda a copy-paste from something I typed earlier. xP. But it's so exciting I don't care if someone reads it twice. xP

Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet up with a new International friend of mine whom I had met a couple weeks ago at church during our missions conference weekend. We had a luncheon and invited International students, then H+JL shared about stress and JL gave his testimony in Mandarin. I only knew enough to pick up that he had talked about God and sin and love, so I just prayed during that time.

I had got my friend's contact info and was trying to keep in touch, but he was a bit bad at replying to texts.

The other day I was at work and he text me asking if there was anything happening at church this weekend. I told him about Sunday School and Service, which he didn't know much about and said he would come with me this weekend. But I wanted to meet up and talk more before going; ask about what JL had said and explain why people go to church.

I set up for us to meet yesterday at 2:45 and a guy in my DG was coming with me. I thought my friend was pretty open considering I knew he had heard the gospel from JL and that he was curious about church, so we prayed and as we were still praying he showed up.

We talked a bit about the weather and school and stuff. I asked about JL's testimony and he had shared about the 'benefits of knowing God and that we should all give it a try'. I asked what he knew about church, what he knew about Jesus. He did not know much, so I asked if he would like to know some more. He did, so I took out the bilingual 4 Spiritual Laws booklet and we started to go through it.
He was pretty concerned when we told him sin prevented us from connecting with God, but then Jesus was the bridge, the only way for us to have that connection. When we got to point 4, receiving Christ he was jumping ahead asking how he could. When we said it was by praying he asked how he could pray. Then we got to the page with the two circles. He wanted Jesus in his life.

We got to the prayer and I asked if he understood what everything meant in it and he said yes. I still went through sentence by sentence anyways to make sure and asked if he really wanted to pray this. I asked if he knew what the meaning of praying it was and said he didn't have to if he didn't want to. It doesn't matter what words you say, but what you really mean in your heart, my DGer had said. He still wanted Christ.

And so we prayed together for Jesus to come into his life! =D

And right after he asked about feelings. XP

He said he didn't know how to describe what he was feeling, but "I know something amazing has just happened. Wow."

I told him about our relationship as children of God and that we were brothers now.

He had class, but he was really excited. XP. My DGer had a pocket-sized gospel of John, so we gave him both that and the 4 Laws booklet. He was really excited about having both of them.

On Sunday we will be going to OCBC together and going to the Sunday school class that is bilingual. This week the topic is about father/child relationships in the Bible. Pray for DL to continue to grow as God establishes his faith.

Praise the Lord! =D

God did all of this not me. I actually didn't even plan on going to the international luncheon. I met DL through a friend of a friend. My texts had gone without timely reply, but then he text me. God had been working in Him the whole time between that weekend and now.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

À Côté de

I don't want to study anymore...

You know what I mean?

It's been a long semester and yet it is so close to being done.

Yet there's still so much to do.

Ah. Gotta keep going.

I figured out how to use most of the French keyboard now. lol. I guess when you have to use it, you will figre it out, eh?

OH! My buddy DL who I met at the OCBC International luncheon the other week is gonna come to church on Sunday! I wanted to meet up with him beforehand and share like why people go to church, i.e. I plan to share the gospel with him, so I need to pray. haha.

This`ll also be the first day I go sharing with my DGers, so pray for that. I'm bringing AO with me to meet with DL, but I don't have anything set up for when me and CX are gonna go, so I think we'll just go with the Cravings magazine or Soularium? I'll ask him. lol.

Yep. Exciting!

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. How do you spell my name in French..?

Glorious Christ

Yo.

Another busy day... haha. Had an assignment due at 12, but with DG I needed to finish by 11:15. That was difficult considering I hadn't started... >.<

All's good. I think I understand COSY and HETCOR now..? In any case I got to DG on time. People need to RSVP before DG. Waiting for someone who wasn't coming today we wasted quite a bit of time and didn't end up talking about too much. I wanted to really share about Projects and how great they are. I'm really really really excited right now. I mean, I'm so excited about going that I've started relearning French with a website called memrise that works to engage your long term memory by masquerading as Farmville, ie, you plant words and have to harvest and water them after a certain amount of time otherwise they wilt (you forget them). Apparently some guy learned a whole language in 22 hours (spaced out over 2.5 months). I've got 3 months. =D

Anyways, I also had work and not much else, but ya. haha.

On Sunday BI was praise team leader again. It's always an interesting experience. He kinda changes the normal procedure, but it's still good, just a bit different. He also introduced a really great song, that I got to sing. lol

"Glorious Christ"



Ttyl

D.Fa

Bonsoir

Well, I just managed to finish a paper and gave it a pun-ny name, so that's good, but I have an assignment due in 12 hours...

And yet, yesterday night I decided I had time to take apart a pumpkin? Questionable priorities? Likely.

Anyways, my brain is shutting off.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Started relearning French? Yes.

PPS. Sweden!

Where do I..?

Yo guys,

I got to talk with my brother MT the other day. It has been great being able to spend time together and just talk about whatever. The other day I was feeling really uncertain about what would happen if I didn't make it back from Carp. (Link here). Well, that night I had asked him to pray for me. He asked 'why?' when we met up this week, and I explained.

Basically, as MT put it, I had been confusing my condition with my position.

You see, when we accept Christ's forgiveness for our sins, not only are we forgiven we are also made righteous. Jesus took our sin and traded it for His righteousness. He seated us in the Heavenly realms with Him. (Eph 2:6)

News Flash: People are sinful.

We don't change overnight. God changes us to reflect His image more and more each day as we follow Him, but sometimes we will fall a little bit. Sanctification, being made holy, is a lifelong process. But it doesn't change our position before God as being righteous and blameless in Christ.

So, ya, this comes back to the question of Christ dying for our sins. Did He die for just the ones I have already done? Already gone through? Already confessed about? or did He die for all of them?

"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." (1Pet3:18)
"so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him." (Heb9:28)

But the most interesting one of all is the following:

"For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy." (Heb10:14)

He had made perfect forever those who are being made holy. Even though we are still in that sanctification process, we have been made perfect forever. In Christ, no matter where we are along our walk and our process, having accepted Him as Lord, having accepted His forgiveness, we are made perfect.

So, ya, MT really encouraged me that my position before Christ does not change even though what I am experiencing sometimes may change.

Ya.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

At the Start

Well, Here I am.

I've got a midterm tomorrow morning and I have so much studying to do. haha.

I'm pretty excited about my DG though. haha. Today we looked at how and to who we should share our faith. Faith being the key word. How, by faith and to whom, by faith. haha. God has placed people around us who He wants us to share the truth with and to share His love. The exact method will vary, but we gotta trust God with the timing and that no matter what we say, it all comes down to what God is doing in their hearts, not our ability to convince people of anything.

But ya. haha. My guys are awesome. Hard to keep up with them sometimes. lol. But I guess that means that we can move forward. This Friday I'm gonna try to go sharing on campus with a couple of them. Looking forward to it.

Today was great. lol. I got to study with my classmates after DG until I had to go to work and then I got to bus to work with TJN and shop with him. haha.

I got to work, then I go to thinking about how I had come to this point.

There are three classmates I spend most of my time with. They are good friends now, but how did I get here?

Last year was completely different. At the start of last year I had met one of them once, had seen the name of the other and watched videos he was in, and the third I had never even seen. All three were my classmates.

I ended up spending time with the one. She was lab partners with the one I hadn't met. Through a mutual friend I officially met the second one on facebook. Near the end of the first semester I met the third while the first and him were working on a lab report.

At this point I don't think we were really friends all that much?

Second semester I ended up being lab partners with the third friend. I was talking more with the second. And the first needed no additional intentionality to become better friends, she kinda has been pulling the friendship along. haha. Anyways, at this point we all knew each other and had the same classes and therefore worked on labs together and went to classes together. We also all went to sushi together. =D And probably Pho a couple times?

I definitely started praying for them last year. In the second semester I invited the first friend to a coffeehouse type event where the gospel was shared at the end. The third friend I invited to church and he came. The second I haven't talked to too much about Jesus.

This year we have been pretty inseparable, except for the first and second kinda having an awkward relationship now. haha. But ya, we hangout a lot. I have been very open about being Christian and they are now all asking questions.I asked the first to Rock the River and she came. That week she asked about the different denominations. The second has said a few times that he doesn't know anything about religions. This week he asked about baptism and it's meaning. The third is really funny and went to a Christian boarding school for highschool. He is doing a project on this cross-shaped molecule that apparently holds you together or something? The two guys have become way more open to talking with me (they were both pretty shy) and the first is still as outgoing as before. lol.

Anyways, I'm pumped about where these relationships are going, but realized I have one semester left before I have co-op and won't be in their classes anymore. >.<

Praying real hard right now.

D.Fa

I'm Kinda Stressed

Hey,

so, I've been reading Isaiah quite a bit lately. I'm at that stage in my Bible reading plan where I have procrastinated reading the prohets and now that's all I have left. >.< They are so good, but I'm supposed to have read like 4 chapters a day, which is quite daunting.

Anyways, Isaiah is pretty sweet.

33:13-16
"You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power! The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?" He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hands from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil--this is the man who will dwell on the heights, who refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and water will not fail him."

I can only imagine that the bread and water are those of life. The bread of life and the living water. When we satisfy ourselves in Christ, we are truly satisfied and have no need to resort to plots of murder, contemplating evil, and all gains from bad sources.

33:2
"O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress."

Amen.

D.Fa

You are always your Father's Child

Hey, so this is a bit late to be blogging, but it was practically a "Challenge accepted" moment since just talking with AZ now he said he was going to sleep and that he was "[12:41:55 AM] AZ: too lazy to post this late at night. I still dunno how you manage to do it. lol." Bwaha.

But ya. this is an update on my post about Saturday night. I was feeling really bad about disobeying my dad and my Father by driving all the way out to Carp on the highway, so I felt I should confess not only disobeying my dad, and hurting the car, but also all the ways I had been abusing the blessing the car was by doing certain (practically harmless) illegal things. And finally giving it back for a little while to be repaired and also because I have been abusing this privilege.

I'm not all that close with my dad and I thought it would end badly, so Sunday I started getting cold feet. Luckily I have brothers to keep me accountable.

I ended up telling him it all.

He dealt with it pretty well. He even asked "why are you telling me all these things?" I didn't go into the whole Spirit convicting me of sin, but just said I was feeling bad. But still, it was good confessing that and getting it over with.

And ya, today I got to keep helping to install the new storm door (because Sandy is coming? maybe. Because the old one was practically falling off? Largely.). It's been fun working on that together with my dad. Nothing changed between Saturday and Monday working on it. The only difference is I don't have a car key right now. But between me and my dad nothing has changed. I am still his son.

This is one of the first things I told my friend in East Asia when he accepted Christ. When you accept Christ as your saviour, you become a child of God, and that will never change. The distance between you and your dad may change, but that relationship will always be the same. God will never leave you or abandon you. You are His child now and He loved you all along.

Pretty sweet.

=D.Fa

PS. Guyana

Why Do I..?

Why does it seem that I tend to confess everything to you?

I mean a couple hours ago was, like, the scariest thing that has ever happened and I'm only half way done.

You see, I am in Carp right now at a Stag and Doe. The problem there is how I got here.

My friend is a DJ. She has a gig (the Stag and Doe) and needed a drive.

I agreed to help her (she said she would pay me, I really need the money...) and then found out where it was.
Carp is like 30 minutes away, if you take the highway.

My dad told me not to take the highway until I got lessons. I haven't been driving onne, but thought I'd be fine. I've seen people drive on them a million times, I've driven that fast, I looked online and it said I was legally allowed to, my friend needed me (she said I was her last chance (taxis won't take her equipment)).

Additionally, after the Stafield concert I kinda bumped the muffler on my car and it has been making noises. I haven't told my dad about it to get it fixed because then I'd be unable to drive my friend.

Another thing: tomorrow I am leading both grade 7/8 sunday school and worship. This is problematic because her gig ends at 1. I won't be home until around 2am.

So with all this conflict, basically, lying to my dad, going against his clearly set out and for my own good rule, putting money before God, driving a car that could fall apart any second, driving on a highway for the first time and late at night, all this to me boiled down into: there's a chance I could die AND I'm clearly willingly sinning right now.

Where does that leave me? [Update: Read this. haha]

The Bible says God forgives all sin, but there is a difference. He doesn't just forgive everything for no reason. It is through turning from our sin that we can live the new life again. It isn't "Jesus forgives me, so I can do ____".

I couldn't tell her no. So, I was really freaking scared. I mean, if I didn't make it back, I would have died walking in sin. So I'm praying really hard right now. I made it here safely, but there's still the drive back at 1:30...

Nearly nothing good would have come from the Stag and Doe not having a DJ...

I'm still not happy about my decision.

Tomorrow I am returning the car for at least a week and confessing everything to my dad.

I also think I won't be taking any of the money for myself. I haven't decided what it would go to, but it won't be me. My dad is giving me a bit extra in my food allowance this week for helping assemble and install the new front door, so really, I'm okay.

I don't want to disobey my dad or my heavenly Father. Seriously, this feeling is tearing me apart. I hate it.

D.Fa

[written yesterday around 8pm]

Mon Coeur Veut Chanter

Hey guys.

This week has been pretty tough. Taking it one thing at a time again. Kinda missing classes to do lab reports. >.< I really bad at catching up when I get behind... But ya, I really had not planned when I would do my lab report, so it was good when my friend had not started and was desperate for me to help.

We both got full marks on it for this week. Gonna work on it more tomorrow.

Anyways, one thing I am excited for is tomorrow night. GH is coming from Montreal to talk to us and so the direction I took for advertising Connect Meeting this week is "Connectez: L'Experience Québec". Haha. I was going to MC and was really excited about introducing that we'd have some bilingual worship! xP (One of the best parts of Winter Conference for sure.) I had also been practicing an introduction: "Bonjour et bienvenue a le réunion Connectez de cette semaine. Je m'appele Dylan et je suis votre emcee pour la soir, mais je parlerais en l'Anglais. Merci." And then I'd go in English. lol. Oh well, EE will do well too. haha

So I was just in the process of finding the youtube worship for Connect meeting. Which does sound a bit lame, but it's fine for our current situation. There is far to much demand to not have worship, so I guess this is unavoidable. lol

Why do youtubers need to make lyric videos with lyrics that change colour or background pictures taken from google that represent each line? Just a plain background with a large font, contrasting colour, lyrics would be fine. haha. Oh well.

Worship can be done by anyone anywhere in any language. Can't wait for Heaven. Haha.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Iraq!

Important Things in Triplicate

Yo. So today was cool.

In genetics I barely paid attention, I got to talk to one of my friends who lives far away right now and get an update / ask how I can be praying for them. Basically nothing happened at school. lol.

I had work from 2-10.

Today's Bible break I got to read John 18-19 and the thing that stuck out to me was that Pilate not once, but three times said "I find no basis for a charge against him" about Jesus. Truly there was no reason based on the law that Jesus should have died, but as even Caiaphas the high priest said "it would be good if one man died for the people". Jesus died not because of His own errors, for He had none, but instead died for us, died for the things we have done wrong and could not fix by our own means. In the face of injustice and suffering Jesus went forward as a sheep to the slaughter so that we might live in Him and be one with Him after His resurrection.

Let us abide in Him and keep in step with His Spirit.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Reign In Us

I think that may already be a blog post title of mine. Haha

Anyways, I'm really pumped up right now. lol. Today was amazing.

From Sunday School with D(?) knowing the gospel and asking about treasures in heaven, and the fact that I somehow had already interacted with each of the passages and concepts presented int he lesson earlier in the week; to an awesome worship service about being World Christians that participate int he mission of the church no matter where they are; to McDonalds... >.>; to this evening where I got to drive a few of my brothers out to the middle of nowhere for a worship concert.

I forgot my phone in the car, but this is what I wrote down on my hand:

"I just wanna be what you want me to be. A heart like you.
Rediscover You
Bring back hockey
I have decided to follow Jesus
Reign in Us
I'll burn, I'll burn for you
Light of the world will shine through us"

But this wasn't just a concert, this was a group of God's children coming together to praise Him for all He is and just sing with all our hearts.

So good. I got to see JJ, AZ, SM, FL, DP, and a bunch of other people. haha.

So. Good.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Saturdays can be busy too.

Yo. Saturdays are pretty awesome. lol

Worship practice was great. Be Unto Your Name is a great song. lol.

We had an international lunch at church and a whole bunch of new people came. There was a diverse selection of foods to eat, a variety of people to meet, a couple games and then J+HL shared about Stress, how it affects us and how JL has seen God work in his life and help him to overcome stress. I got to make one friend and exchange numbers. I know the gospel was proclaimed during JL's Mandarin testimony. I heard it. lol. Although I didn't understand much of it. It was very very fast and not in English. lol. So, I look forward to talking with my new friend DL about what he heard, also help him with English maybe and be a good friend to him.

Then I had to go upstairs and discuss the book we are reading with the worship leaders. This week we started a section of the book about healthy tensions in worship since it is not really prescribed in the Bible how we are to worship God. The first tension we looked at was God's transcendence, but also His immanence. Although fully set apart from us He would come down to us and take on flesh and more than that allow His Spirit to live in those whom have been made new in Him.

I had to go early to pickup the car from the mechanic's though... lol.

Dinner at my parents.

Bus home and do some work.

Then I got to play minecraft with RP and SC. I like minecraft way too much. lol. I had a pet wolf and was starting to build my mountaintop home when I fell off and died and couldn't figure out how to get back, so I stayed in the pre-made village they were living in to hide from spiders and zombies and stuff. lol. Once I got myself back together I went exploring to try and refind my house. SC ended up setting my house in the village on fire with a bucket of lava... >.<

Anyways, it's late. Gotta sleep so I can properly praise God tomorrow. Haha.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Small Groups Rock

Hey, so, ya,

YA is really great. Haha. I'm glad that our YA group is so small this year (7-9 people a week). I mean it would be awesome if we were still a giant 20-30 people, but really I didn't get to know anyone all that well. But now I actually get to talk with people and hang out before YA (before meaning the first 15-30 minutes "on time"). We should definitely have more food at YA since every week there are a minimum of two people who have not had dinner yet while the girls who live there are just miking or finishing their own dinner. >.>

but ya, there's only 5 guys so far, which is much easier to manage than in other years. Haha.

It's really cool how things turned out yesterday though. lol. No one was on worship, so I signed up like an hour before. haha. Then we broke off into two groups to discuss the chapter of "Crazy Love" that we had read and I ended up leading the discussion. It actually tied into our Sunday School discussion the week before and it's crazy how many things the discussion mentioned that I had just seen.

Anyways, I'm really really excited for the Starfield concert on Sunday night! CX and AW are gonna go with me. I was really hoping I would get to go with my DG, but it seems that they are not all too interested. haha. Oh well.

So far we have talked about Assurance in our relationship with God, and forgiveness of our sins through Jesus' death on the cross. I'm excited to get to the Spirit-filled life this next weeks and hopefully very soon get to the KGP booklet so we can get going. xP

I'm excited for my DG. Haha.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Moldova
PPS. I am in class right now, but it is a guest lecturer who is just reading from my analytical chem lecture slides from last year. >.> Haha.
PPPS. The guy and girl sitting in front of me were comparing Lady Gaga to one of the professors at Carleton and making a slide show presentation. Haha

Je suis un Homme Artificiel

So, another long day.

Woke up way too early so I could cram for a midterm.

Yesterday whilst cramming I discovered that there was an assignment due tomorrow on lecture material I had not yet watched. Oh well, it wasn't a hard assignment.

I had work 2-10. >.<

Thought: If God is greater than time, doesn't that mean we can pray for things that have already happened? This is an idea one of my friends introduced to me probably a year or so ago. I think it's valid. Like praying for something that you don't know has happened yet, but was / is supposed to. Not like praying that the first world war would end, kinda past that. More like "I'm meeting up with my friend to talk about Jesus at 9am, could you pray for me?" and you read that at 10.

Oh, and apparently McDonalds always wins. We were out walking towards the mystery light in the sky for an hour before we decided it was probably too far, so we jogged back and drove towards it assuming it was the movie theatre. Guess again. lol...

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. In the car on the way there we were rocking it French gangster style. (I don't mean to offend anyone, I'm making a joke)

Continually

Yo. Psalm 105 is pretty sweet. Like all of it is awesome, but the first part really spoke to me today.

I was reading part of "Pursuit of God" yesterday. We do not accept Christ and then that's it, it is a life of following after Him and getting to know Him more each day and constantly seeking him and being transformed into His image, etc.

Ya, gotta pursue Him more, I mean I'm usually just going through life on my own with 'no time to read my Bible or pray', but really, all the time I have been given is from God, each new day is a gift. Can I not spend 10 minutes with Him?

So, the last week I have been encouraged by my brother to have solid quiet times with Him. Driving to work I would get there a little early, so I spent 10-15 minutes in my car reading. It was good.

Yesterday I felt pretty bad and didn't really spend time with God. This morning I woke up late and had to go to work immediately. At lunch though I needed to just stop. I went outside and sat down and opened my pocket Bible. It was on Psalm 119. lol. too long. lol. Next. 105.

"Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;

make known his deeds among the peoples!

Sing to him, sing praises to him;

tell of all his wondrous works!

Glory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

Seek the Lord and his strength;

seek his presence continually!

Remember the wondrous works that he has done,

his miracles, and the judgments he uttered"

Think about it, all the great things that God has done for us. He sent His only Son to die for our sins so that we could experience Him fully and know Him personally.

I don't usually take breaks at work, but I should have two 15 minute breaks as well as lunch break, so why not take that break and spend it with God?

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Brunei

Plugged In?

Yo.

I am way too attached to technology.

Yesterday my laptop's keyboard stopped working. I knew it would just be breif, but my backup plan was "Oh, I have my cell phone".

I ended up forgetting my phone at YA yesterday. I had to plug in my alarm clock. My whole day was about me trying to get my phone. I was going to get it this morning, but was a bit late. My friend had class, so I stayed there, outside her class, for three hours working on a prelab, overhearing her watch old spice commercials, waiting for her class to end. Then when her class ended she disappeared... I tried to track her down at lunch, but was not successful. I assumed she was had lunch with SM and NP as usual on Tues/Thurs. But they weren't in the normal place. I assumed she gave it to SM, so after my classes ended at 8, I went to find him. He wasn't in studio and I was about to give up when I saw some people in a classroom. He wasn't in there, but there are two classrooms. ! I found him! I waited til 9, but he didn't have lunch with them apparently...

It's so stupid. I have no way of contacting my friends without it...

I can't take great pictures without it...

I can't remember all of my commitments without it...

But even without it I wasn't spending more time with God.

I'm greatly annoyed.

Going to sleep now. Ttyl.

D.Fa

Give Thanks

Yo,

so even though my friend wasn't able to come to church again this week (which on one had is good because it would be illegal to drive him and his friend at the same time) it has been way too long. Haha. Next week for sure.

Anyways, where I was going with that was that even though he couldn't go, a lot of good things still happened. Haha.

First was a joint service at church, so a long bilingual message. A few things happened, HW got baptised!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations! So excited for my new brother! Ummm, KP accepted Christ this week!!!! Happy Birthday bro!!! xD Ummm, I got to sit with A(?) during the sermon. He's like 8 years old I think. He has a habit of hitting himself or ripping his clothes... But ya, he was hitting his cheeks during the sermon. And what can I do? Forcing him to stop is not loving. First idea, explain I don't want you to hurt yourself, so please stop? Nope. He was also hitting himself with a plastic rock and his watch. I asked him to put it in his pocket. He did, briefly. (I ended up putting the rock in my pocket when he wasn't looking, but he kept hitting himself.) Hands on your lap? Nope. "You're my little brother, I don't want you to get hurt. I love you"? Nope.
.> How bout ignoring him? (in three minutes he hit himself 25 times. >.<) I prayed for him so much in that hour(?)... I got to talk to TJ a bit after service. He's a cool kid.

Umm. OH YEAH! Today I had a couple firsts,

The first one is so bad! I nearly died! So, I have this habit of not turning my key all the way and so end up not turning the engine fully on. So, when I was going to reverse out of the parking lot and go, the wheel wasn't turning..? Crud! EMERGENCY BRAKE! *thud* *heart racing* at least the car is stopped... So, ya, first actual use of emergency brake. >.< Thankful for it though. I've had a few nightmares about me driving our old minivan down Charkay while I was in Middle school with no brakes. Scary stuff... lol.

Second first is way better. lol. So, like, I'm trying to show love to my family and not forcing anything on them. Praying for them and looking  for opportunities to share ad everything, but not forcing anything. It's thanksgiving, that's like one of like three family meals a year. Perhaps it was somewhat jokingly said, but my dad asked if I wanted to say grace and my mom enthusiastically said yes; so I prayed in front of my family for the first time? KFA laughed after. >.> But ya. I guess I can pray in front of my family now. Thanking God for working in their hearts.

Yep. Haha. Way more to be thankful than just that. So thankful that God has called us to Himself and is still calling for you guys to come to know Him. He would leave the 99 to save you, whether you were lost nearby or far away He'd give it all to have you come back.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son

And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"

Are We Friends in RL? I'd like to think so.

Hey guys!

Well, it's day 2 of my 5 day weekend (not actually 5 days, I have stuff on Tuesday. xP) but ya, I actually got down to doing some work today. I put a good number of hours into CHEM lectures... They are really slow, but oh well.

I ended up walking to the park and just reading my Bible there. The sun had just come out past the clouds and the leaves were all colourful. I got to read John 5 and 6. I underlined like half of it. haha. It was a good time. I should do that more often.

I actually went for that walk on the advice of two of my brothers. I'm alone in my house right now and that is when I do stupid things and that is when I get tempted a lot. So after texting them they both on their own suggested I go for a walk.

I just discovered my sweatpants a couple days ago and today was lazy, so sweatpants, a long sleeve shirt and what could be considered slippers with hols in them was what I was wearing (plus boxers obviously). Haha.

Even for worship team practice I didn't change. lol. I had to take one shoe off though because it was really loose and I couldn't really drive with it on.

I ended up talking to this guy in front of church about beards. Haha. The environment is kinda like a beard, if you mistreat it it may never be the same. He talked about forests and mountains. lol. But ya, he was with The Nature Conservancy of Canada. He went through the whole explanation and everything. I was very interested. I have taken biology and heard about conservational biology. I have taken chemistry and heard about the tar sands and diamond mining in the North. So, I was very interested in what he was talking about. Turns out he goes to Carleton too. Now, I ended up donating on a monthly basis. Which on one hand is great! They do seem to be a very well run not-for-profit organization. They seem legit. Also I do want to talk more with him if I ever run into him. On the other hand, I have a few people I haven't been able to support their ministry because my budget is so tight... I ended up being late for practice even though I got there early. lol. When BI asked about the guy outside his final thought was something along the lines of "did you tell him the Earth is going to be destroyed?" But in an attempt to justify my actions, my final verdict is that this was a good thing. We shouldn't just stop caring about God's creation. We were originally put here to take care of it. He was pretty funny too. lol

Ya, so other than that there was just one other thing that happened today. lol

So, my brother AZ started watching Sword Art Online yesterday. It's a currently airing anime I watch. He watched 13 episodes and today was the release of the 14th, so we were going to watch it together. lol. At 3:45(ish) I checked and the subtitled version was uploaded! Time to go! And so with skype ready and our streams loaded we watched it. It was so crazy! What even happened?! I'm not going to spoil anything, but it was crazy. Haha. Love always pulls through it seems. (check out AZ's post)

Oh, final thought: Just a few minutes ago I clicked on a link on my other brother's tumblr and ended up here. It's an article about taking God at His word and really trusting in what the Bible says. I have a cork board and a lot of ideas of what I should do with it, but Bible verses are definitely involved and maybe I should put every promise I read in the Bible on it? Maybe? Maybe. I'll let you know. Haha.

That's a lot. haha.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

And So Two Became Four

Hey guys!

So this week, most weeks now, I have stuff at night each day. Haha

This week was my first DG! I got to meet a couple guys as well as getting to know all four of them way better. I can't wait for next week! RY is joining my DG and we're gonna actually start DG stuff. Haha. Building them up and getting them excited for what God is doing on campus.

It was MK's birthday on Wednesday! So I got a cake and we sang happy birthday at the end of our YA time. We looked at a Francis Chan video "Stop and Think" and AL said something I thought was really interesting. The first thing we do when we wake up is check our phone. Is that really the most important thing? So, I've been trying to spend a few minutes at the start of my day with God and nothing else. I hope to implement this more thoroughly than I have been so far. Haha

I had two midterms this week. haha. So that was ok. lol. 

It's Thanksgiving long weekend though, so I have time to catch up on school work and clean my house and organize my room finally. Haha. That is unless I procrastinate way too much...

Both my roommates are gone this weekend. Empty house...

I just opened another box of clothes this week because I hadn't done laundry. haha. I have so much clothes..... Good thing I stopped my dad from buying me more.

Anyways,

Ttyl. I should do some work. lol

D.Fa

Anticipants!

Yo. October, start!

Worst start to a month yet. Haha.

Woke up at 6:47 because my alarm wasn't set properly. This left me 73 minutes to finish an assignment due at 8:30. I meant to wake up at 5...

But ya. I actually can't wait for tomorrow. lol. My first time leading a DG!

So, why am I still awake at 11:30? >.<

Goodnight. lol.

D.Fa

PS. If you don't understand the post title, neither do I. Haha

Rock The River

Yo, so, tonight was the second and last night of Rock the River at Brittania Park.

It was so cold and so wet, but good. I can't believe I was there for all of it. Haha.

I've got an assignment to do and ya, so here is my favourite song from the weekend. lol

Ttyl

D.Fa

The Afters -- Lift Me Up

"We Are Never Getting Back Together"

So, today was amazing! Rock the River was AMAZING! Not only did I get to see DP and RW and AZ and MM and RH and BS and DvdP and a whole bunch of P2C people and EC and many others, but I also got to see JS come to know Christ as his Saviour as well as three other guys! Praise be to the Lord! Can't wait for tomorrow!

But ya, I also got to invite three friends. I missed out on inviting them in person on Thursday and so ended up texting them yesterday. JXW came today for the whole thing! Lacey Sturm has an amazing testimony and the story of the Prodigal Son as told by Franklin Graham can stand alone, so I know stuff must be happening in her heart. So I gotta talk to her. Keep praying of course.

Very unexpected: I got to sing (in the crowd of course) Taylor Swift's song "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". lol. I actually was nearly going to talk about it at Worship practice and breifly thought about talking about it in service tomorrow. lol. I got a little addicted when Andrew Huang did a cover. lol. But even though the song says 'We are never ever getting back together' over something probably stupid and flippant (teenage girls? jk jk), God never ever abandons us. He knocks on the door of your heart no matter how many times you slam it in His face. No matter what you've done against God, including crucifying Jesus by our sins, He can forgive us and offers that to us. Pretty amazing. lol

So, ya,

Ttyl.

D.Fa

When We Take a Step

Yo, so, two days ago I had a really weird experience.

It was my first drive without my dad in the passenger seat.

Like this was so weird because like, whenever I would go driving with my Dad I would just go where he told me to. I never had to worry about how to get places or where I'd end up as long as my Dad was there.

Yesterday was my first commute. It took like half an hour. Haha... Rush hour and construction. A police car also went by.

Yesterday me and RB went out on campus looking for someone to talk about purpose with the intention of hopefully sharing Jesus and the gospel. We went through half of campus approaching a number of different people and in the very last place we could think of going we ran into this one guy who was really open to talking with us. He hardly knew anything about Jesus, he knew about religion, but not about a relationship with God. We got to talk him through some questions he had on other religion, controversial topics, but most importantly we shared about God's grace given to us through Jesus' death on the cross and God's love for the nations.

It was really awesome! Haha Should get to meet up with him again soon. xP

Umm. Today was good. Discussion Group worked out! The first three had no one so I sent 25 texts yesterday and ended up texting for a solid half hour before sharing with RB. No one came yesterday (except my friend who had an assignment, so she went to do work) but my frosh came! Three of them!! Yay! My friend said she really liked it and wondered when the next discussion was. >.< Last one...

Anyways, gotta work now. Haha.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Just a Step of Faith

Yo guys!

Today was great! Awesomest main session of the weekend for sure.

I woke up early and got ready. I had to get ready for session. I had a testimony to give. I was not ready. Haha... But God really brought it all together. =D

The testimonies, the worship, the speaker, the challenges, all of it came together so smoothly.

Not to mention (despite the cold) the awesome weather! Autumn is beautiful when it isn't raining.

And so, my testimony (about 3 minutes long?):

"Hey! My name is Dylan, I've kinda already been introduced. Haha.

Well, two years ago I was in your seats. It was my first time doing anything with Power to Change and at the time the Life Challenge didn't exist. Instead at the end of the weekend we would be challenged to break a faith barrier in the next week or year. A faith barrier being something that had been keeping you from trusting God with more. For most first years that often means sharing your faith for the first time. That's what it meant for me too, but more specific.

You see in the first week of school I was trying to make some new friends. In my calculus tutorial I saw this one guy and I decided I was going to be his friend. But the thing was that when I met him, I had this feeling in my heart; God wanted me to share Jesus with him. Now, I had never shared my faith and I had no idea how to, so I kinda pushed that thought aside. I still had that feeling, but I would just focus on being his friend for now.

At Summit I got to learn about how to share my faith. I went to he seminar on using the Knowing God Personally Booklet and later that week I got to go sharing on campus with a staff member and experience it for myself.

Maybe a week or so later we were walking in the tunnels after class. Have I mentioned that I was pretty shy and awkward? Well, I had a KGP in my pocket, but I felt like butterflies in my stomach. I was really scared and nervous. So I prayed for God to calm my heart and give me boldness. 'All you have to do is pull it out. Just do it. Just do it', I thought.

And so I was like, "Umm, I have this booklet. Do you want to look through it together? ... and he said yes. I was still really scared, but we went through it. We didn't sit down, we just kept walking in the tunnels which made it scarier. I felt like everytime I said 'Jesus' it would echo all through the tunnels and someone would be walking by, but we finally got to the prayer at the end and I asked him if he wanted to pray it. He said yes.

Even when we are scared we know we can trust God to help us. All throughout the Bible God says He is with us. Once case is when Moses tells Joshua "Be strong and courageous, do not be terrified or afraid for God is with you; He will not fail or forsake you" and similarly in the Great Commission Jesus says He has all authority and that He is with us always, so no matter where we go we can trust Him and take that step of faith.

Whether it is taking the Life challenge or sharing for the first time, I encourage you to take a step in faith and see what God can do through you."

Something along those lines. Haha. I was sick to my stomach before going up and sharing, but then it just came out. Haha. People thought it was pretty funny at times and very encouraging. SB was like 'you need to become staff!' or something like that. Haha.

Ya. I need to do more homework. lol.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Light Up the Sky

Yo. So today was pretty cool. Right now is awesome. XP. Currently staring up at the sky. So amazing.

Today was the main day of summit. Seminars, main sessions and all. It was good.

I am actually forgetting a lot. Lol.

Oh! We had a free time. I spent a bunch of time with AZ, like the most I ever have. Lol. Being friends online is cool and all, but hanging out in real life was great. Then there was an Ultimate tournament and we lost to McGill hardcore. Lol...

Oh well.

Ttyl

D.Fa

PS. I had a really good mock conversation about the Spirit-filled life earlier.

Time to Rev Your Engines!

Yo. So today was interesting.

I got to wake up early and I made like scrambled eggs. Mmmm. Same idea as always when I cook. Got something? Throw it in!

Why'd I wake up early? It was time to have an actual driving test! It had been a month since my 'fail' and so we go again. As chance would have it I ended up with the same tester as last time. My brother had also had him and so my Dad was really hoping he wasn't here. He even had a test before us and managed to get back just in time for me. Haha.

It wasn't bad. Excellent parallel parking. Lol. Stray cat in the road started some light conversation. Lol

I passed! Yay! G2! This means that very soon I will be able to drive people places. Lol. Not all that useful, but a little bit anyways.

Ummm. Cleaned and watched tv pretty much all day until the bus left for Summit.

New camp. New friends. Good worship. And again somehow I have some service. Lol.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Secret Project

So, today was cool.

I had some class, I had some stuff to do, there was a black out at school and I got to see how cool a place for some sort of FPS the library under construction would be. lol.

I got to meet up with JJ and talk for a bit. I haven't really seen him for an extended period of time in a while. I also got to talk with DL and hang out in the Architecture building again. lol.

I'm gonna be helping MY with some photo stuff tomorrow. It seems they get 3 hours of class about SLRs and then are expected to do an entire roll of film and develop it. >.< I had like a couple week in grade 11 photo for that. The studios are already magical. haha. I honestly want to build a model so badly. lol. But it's expensive. >.>

First YA of the year was okay. Only like 9 of us, but it was good. Not much of a real game plan for the night, just an intro to the book we'll be reading and prayer time followed by free hangout time.

Only a couple days until SUMMIT!

Ttyl.

D.Fa

WHMIS

Pretty bored right now. lol.

Gotta do anther WHMIS test. Probably my 6th or 7th..?

haha.

25 Years

You know, I've never asked my parents what it is that has kept them together so long.

It's actually something I kinda want to ask, but don't really know how. lol.

I mean in this day and age there are so many couples breaking up over the smallest things, but not my parents. There are a lot of small things that could have broken them up, but I'm really glad they haven't. I thank God for all the love they have shown me, all the things they do for me and my brother.

It was really cheesy taking champagne pictures for them though. lol. Also, I either have a really low alcohol tolerance when I am starving or I am very good at making myself think I am drunk when I am not. I'm pretty sure I wasn't drunk. lol. I had a half glass of champagne and it was only really when I was like 6 sips in that I was acting funny. lol.

But ya, it's really cheesy going back to the place you got married for your 25th anniversary dinner. (Overpriced too. lol)

But ya, I'm really happy for them and all that God has been doing in them through all of it. I pray their love would become even more real as they discover God's love for them.

D.Fa

Expressing Interest

Yo. Today was cool.

God really works in interesting ways.

I had two follow-up meetings today.

The first was with a first year Architecture student. On his survey he said he craved escape. He also appeared (at least I thought so) that he was Christian. It could have just been me though. lol. So I ended up sharing a whole lot about what motivates me, even though I also crave this escape from the day to day monotony. I shared that even though I didn't really want to go to University and still don't know exactly where I am going I trust that wherever I am that God can use me to share His love with those around me. He was nodding along and understanding what I meant, so I ended up using more Christianese and everything. lol. Then I realized I hadn't actually asked... lol. He said he was athiest. >.< lol. Well, I'm not upset that I shared like that. I was just being real. Haha. He was interested in meeting up again later to talk, so that'll be cool. lol.

Haha. I got to bring TB with me. I wanted to bring SC, but the meeting was moved forward, so then I wanted to go with MY, but he had a tutorial. >.> Oh well, TB was good too. lol

The second was quite a bit later. Mainly from his name I assumed he was Muslim. He wanted to know more about P2C though, which was interesting. Didn't really know what to expect. MJ came with me, which was eally cool because both him and the guy we were meeting had spent quite a bit of time in Dubai. lol. So that was interesting. I actually hadn't spent much time with MJ since I met him last year during follow-up from the $1000 in Change surveys. lol. So, really cool. We got to talk and he didn't always see our point of view about things, but it was good getting to talk and he said he was gonna read the whole magazine on the bus ride back to his house. lol. Got to share the gospel with him though. lol. May God's word continue to move in his heart.

I still got to meet up with SC and  actually ran into EP while microwaving my lunch. Haha. I got to tell both of them all about my first meeting and about P2C. lol. SC is having a complicated time hopping from church to church and from fellowship to fellowship. It's a lot of choices to make. NYC ended up with us for a bit too. I just kept being real. No point hiding what is important to me anyways. lol. Made sure I explained things he might not have caught from what I was saying. lol.

Anyways, now I have three guys on the wait list for meetings. lol. SC, TB and MJ all want to go. lol

I also ran into a bunch of people today. lol. VC included. Haha.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. Ireland!!

Never a 'Day Off'

Hmmm. I guess I haven't realized yet.

Tomorrow I have no classes, yet I am booked solid from 10-10. Haha.

I think that's why I didn't realize I had a day off on Tuesday too. I was busy all day. I slept in, but then had stuff to do until I gt home late.

Well, so much for three day weekends. lol.

Follow-up of the P2C surveys has been really good. I've had three pretty interested guys and I got to bring SM and SK with me. Tomorrow I have two more meetings set up and will hopefully be bringing SC and MJ with me, both seem cool with it. lol.

Gotta sleep so I ca wake up early and have a proper quiet time for once. lol

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Blessing In Disguise

Yo, so the last couple days I have been complaining a little bit.

I have been running into people I know everywhere I go.

You'd think on a campus of 30000 that you wouldn't know so many people.

On the way to classes, before meetings, just hanging around, there is no more free space I can just sit and work quietly.

But actually I really like it too. At the end of grade 12 I knew a lot of people, but I didn't really talk to them. This is different. I want to stop and talk. Who knows when I will see them next?

I actually started talking to this asian guy who was wearing a visored beret hat thingee and sitting on the top of a picnic table in the quad because I thought it was JC! It wasn't. lol. Too much facial hair. Haha

But ya, really, it's awesome being able to have friends everywhere. Even like walking home from the train the other day JL was there, or bussing home from work on Monday JW was there, or on Tuesday NB was there. lol.

It's cool. More opportunities to live the gospel.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

God Loves Them

Yo. God is pretty darn amazing.

I'm not good at rebuking especially not in a constructive way, but today God really was speaking; both to me and my brother. I was tearing up at the words coming out of my mouth. I don't remember the words exactly, but it was like about the motivation to share Jesus with others and Luke11:23.

If you are not gathering, you scatter.

But even if you are making poor choices, God still loves you and His grace is sufficient. Even with all our mistakes, God still wants to use us.

(we were in a large coffee shop place)

Look around.
God loves each and everyone of these people,
each of them.
No matter what they look like on the outside,
no matter what they are feeling on the inside,
God loves them.
God loves them.
Do you think they have all heard the gospel?

I'm not saying you have to do it all. There are tons of people God has placed in our lives, friends, family, classmates. It is not our ability, but our availability that God uses.

Funny that around this time our pastor appears and asks for a gospel tract.

God is working on this campus, but Pastor DB can't reach everyone by himself. We need more people with a true love for God to go and share not with the motivation that we have to, but out of a burning desire to share the joy we have in Christ with those around us; whether you've been Christian for decades or just a week you can share how God has changed your life with others.

Pray for oportunities, pray for boldness, pray for your heart to be set on Him and things of above.

Word.

D.Fa

Sunday Sunday Sunday

Well today was good.

Went to church by train, but stopped halfway to possibly pick some people up. Nope. No one. Haha. In fact I ran into JJ and AY who were doing the same thing I was, but with a group of 5 people. I met SM's brother, ran into a frosh I walked home and found out AY was going to church. The group may hop next week to OCBC. Oh well, wherever God leads.

Sunday School was great. I got to help out the 7/8th grade class. They are a good class. My guys aren't too deep yet, but they are good.

There were a lot of people in the service today and we were still missing some. DZ went and PD was really excited and surprised. I wasn't so surprised. Haha.

We discussed YA over lunch.

At 4 we went to a hoarder's house. Very interesting. I do not want to be a hoarder, but I'm already starting. Lol.

Later we started follow up for the surveys. Next time, more internet. Otherwise, good times. I checked out Lanark. 9PM and AE had a hangover. And that's what Sunday Sunday Sunday is.

Yep. Lol

Ttyl.

D.Fa

A Clear Understanding

Yo. I think what just happened is really really amazing!

So, today I went for driving practice and everything, had worship leader study. Did all the normal stuff. Ya.

DZ offered to drive me and A/ML home thinking we all lived close to his old house. Nope. Haha. But in the car on the way home this song was playing:



"The Proof of Your Love" by For King & Country

"So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love
Let my love look like You and what You're made of
How You lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love"

And I was thinking "I want my life to show how much God loves, to show how much He has changed me, to be all for His glory." This day was basically the day that I plain straight out reveal in words that I follow Christ, so not only do I hope my actions this week spoke for themselves, but also that I'd have the right words to say.

For dinner I was going to go out with my frosh team facilitators. 5:45 at a pub on Bank. I got there on time. It was like 6:05 when the first person showed. 6:50 when the guy who suggested the time / place arrived. but ya. It was a good time. It really showed the brokenness of man though. Like we were mainly talking about frosh experiences in the past and/or talking about drinking alcohol. I really don't understand how people who don't know God live their lives. One girl who arrived a bit later was having her first drink as the other talked about what drinking does to them, shaky legs, numb lips/tongue, and she was like "it gives me a small instant headache. I think it's the age." [she's like 20] Paraphrasing her next statement, she said she was reaping the consequences of mistreating her body.

We went back to our vice's house. It just so happens to be a frat house. Interesting stuff happening there. Beer pong, I have now witnessed. We were there for a good hour. He was just going to shave the chops off of his cheeks. I was praying for this place and the people who minister to frats. That's a crazy ministry! By this point all the girls were significantly not sober. One girl had lost a drinking game.

We walked to campus. We were going to check in on our frosh and they were going to party together since our contract was done as of 6 am this morning. Well, I don't really drink, so I was trying to set an example of the fact you don't need to drink to have fun. I ended up talking with the res fellows on first and third floor about my involvement in P2C and they were both really cool about it. One said he was agnostic currently, but really sees how the other res fellows that he knows are Christian are different. The other thought my trips to East Asia and other places were really cool.

The frosh were probably partying a bit too hard. There was a funnel. Security was patrolling, the res fellows were telling certain rooms to quiet down / disperse. The other facils were not making this easier. Not to mention they planned on going downtown to drink afterwards. >.< But ya, I got to talk to a bunch of frosh. One guy in particular who I had never had a real deep conversation with asked me about my not drinking and I told him, it is my choice not religious obligation, but that I was a Christian. He said he used to have a WWJD bracelet like the one I was wearing. We switched numbers. We talked more and honestly he is broken right now over his choices that he has made in the last few days. I got to have a text encouragement session and have been praying for him. He says he'd love to meet up and talk more later.

This is why I was a facil this year. These are the opportunities I would have missed. These are the people who need to hear the gospel, that Christ died out of love to pay for all our failures, poor choices, and rebellion to a loving creator. His grace is sufficient for all our sins. In death to self we can take on  the new life offered in Christ's resurrection and become children of God once again.

I'm so amazed at how just over the week he came to trust me even with so little interaction and that God can use me to encourage him.

I may never facil again though, but this is worth it.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Connect!

What's up people? (Not rhetorical. Leave a comment)

So today. I will talk about that in a bit. But for now I want to talk about one part: Power to Change Weekly Connect Meeting.

It was the first of the year!

And there were like 45 people? And a whole bunch of people weren't there, so there should have been more. lol That's exciting! There were like 10-15 first years! Wow! So keen!

I'm super excited for this year!

All week I've been doing frosh, but I never got to connect with anyone who loved Christ (as far as I knew (explain later)) so this is exciting!!! I'm still waiting to see mini-SM (aka his brother).

But ya, the Connect Meeting was super great!

Can't wait to go!

We played Ninja. Fun times.

=D.Fa

Nearly Done.

Hey guys!

Its good to be back! Haha. Although I really didn't go anywhere.

This week is still frosh week a Carleton University. I've been involved, helping out as a frosh facilitatr just like last year. This time has been a bit different. I have been able to meet a bunch of facilitators this year as well as a bunch of frosh. The S'mores are the best team!!! We've got a sick dance routine lined up that our frosh created. xP It's to the song 'It's Gonna Be Me' by N'Sync. Haha. It's gonna be sweet.

So, ya, I have written down blog notes on my phone while I was walking home the last couple days and for some reason instead of just blogging from my phone I made a memo to publish later. >.> Haha. So that'll be up soon. I still need to post the blog posts from Brooklyn too. It's coming.

But ya, yesterday I got to sleep in a bit and for some reason my phone's battery only lasted like 6 hours instead of 20 like the day before... >.< So I haven't done yesterday's yet. lol. I'll make a draft and publish them in order, that makes way more sense.

But, ya. Be encouraged! This week has been amazing!

Ttyl.

D.Fa

You Only Frosh Once

Is not entirely true. If you decide to volunteer as a facilitator the following year, you kinda get two chances. Well, there are definitely differences. You get to serve others and show them 'Carleton's Amazing Greatness' which may be slightly over exaggerated in the week, but really, it is an amazing experience. Especially when everything is kept 'safe space'.

So, I kinda wish it were move-in day everyday at Carleton. Haha.

There are many reasons for this:
1) No one is drunk
2) Everyone is helping everyone
3) There is an unending supply of ice water
4) The weather is always amazing
5) No one is distrusting, we can be in every room in residence without so much as a second thought
6) Doors are all unlocked
7) You get to see old friends
8) You get to make new friends
9) You can yell ridiculous things and be rewarded (sm-o-r-e, that's s'more without an apostraphe! (which I really don't think makes sense because the "s'm" in s'mores still sounds like "sm" with or without apostophe >.<))
10) You get an amazing full body workout

There's probably more. lol

But ya. Haha. I pretty much love Frosh week. However, tomorrow is like 18 hours long. So I'm gonna sleep pretty darn soon. lol.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

PS. I found out DK is a res fellow?!?! Prayed for him and his floor! Check!

"This is a Missions Field"

That is what I was telling myself as I approached the bouncer at 'Le Bistro' in Hull tonight.

I had never been to a club or bar or anything. So, I was pretty scared at the prospect of going. This week, starting tomorrow with 'move-in's, is Frosh Orientation Week and I am assisting as a facilitator (from here out known as 'facil'). As of 6am tomorrow we are under contract to not drink any alcohol. Thus the party night tonight. I had been praying about it. A couple days ago our team's head messaged us about it. What do I do? Do I go attempting to make friends with my team? Do I stay home to avoid temptation? If I go what will happen? Would I turn down the offer of a drunk person? >.< And so I was pretty stressed about the choice.

Today was our mandatory training to become facils. Last time I didn't know where my group was or what we were doing until like half way through the day and even then I didn't hang out with them or get to know them and then the next day they were all best friends, knew all the cheers and I kinda felt a bit excluded. >.> So I focused more on making friends with the frosh. All good. But this is as much an opportunity as making friends with frosh. So I did want to try and if going to a club is the only way to be their friends, do I want to do that?

So, training. We get to our room and I run into one person who recognizes me by my facebook picture. (lol) So we sat together until they called our team and the people cheering realized we should all sit together. This was partially caused by the lack of our head and vice-heads being there at the beginning. Anyways, I got to meet a few people. One guy was pretty cool. It's funny though because he is going into third year Communications and doesn't know any of the people I know in third year communications. lol.

Anyways, a long day of lectures. Finally at 5 we were released. We went home for dinner and then went to CD's house to decorate our shirts. (Oh, btw, I'm on team S'mores for CU at the Hungry Games. lol) It was nearly time to decide if I was going to go to Hull or not. At 8 we were supposed to be at Brewer Park to take a bus there.

Apparently the whole place was booked for just us, tomorrow would be a lot of work so no one should get too drunk, I'd be going with my new friend who doesn't drink much, RM would be there, you could leave whenever you wanted. So I guess I decided to go.

I honestly really thank God for my new friend. He doesn't like dancing that much. He was hoping we'd be more like sit down talk and get to know each other. So when it was mainly dancing (which I am not all that opposed to in dry situations) we sat at one of like 3 tables. Haha. Unfortunately, with the music blasting we couldn't really talk much. I thought I saw RN, but no. lol. His name was P(?). lol. Nice to meet you. I also got to talk to DV breifly about our summers. At 9:35ish we left. I really didn't know what to do. lol. I couldn't really talk to anyone about the gospel, I couldn't really go dance and ditch my friend (plus the dancing was pretty awkward a lot of the time, so probably better this way. lol.).

Bonus to leaving early: we took a bus, not a cab.

Also we had more time to talk. He has been really open, which is awesome. I'm really glad we met and there's still a whole week ahead. Haha

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Tuesday to Thursday

Yo. So, no show, eh?

I'm really tired now. Haha. Got Frosh training at 8am. >.>

So, quick update:

Tuesday and Wednesday I had a retreat with the staff / servant team for UOttawa / Carleton P2C. We went camping in Fitzroy Provincial Park out by Arnprior. It was great! We played volleyball a couple times (the ball died so badly. I guess we just play too hard for it. lol) and chilled a bit, but mainly we were talking and praying and planning for what would happen this coming year. And we know God can do more than we ask or imagine, so expect amazing things. Haha.

Wednesday night was OCBC prayer meeting. That was good. Small group prayer we were five guys from non-Christian homes. It's really cool how God works in unexpected ways and how we can trust in His faithfulness in answering prayers in accordance with His will. After that me and SM went to RL's to watch 500 Days of Summer. I thought it was a happier movie. lol. Good main actor / actress though. Made me a bit depressed for a bit. lol.

Ummm. Thursday. Today. Mainly plants again. Haha. But I also got to meet up with my friend AP and have sushi again. lol. It had been such a long time and it was the last chance before she left for school. It was good getting to catch up and talk. I ordered a bunch of sushi, but they lost the order. Haha. Definitely should not be another year before the next time we get to talk. Thus the reason skype was created. xP

Ummm. Finally was training for Rock the River. Tonight was about sharing the gospel. Pretty cool. lol. there was a video about this guy on the Titanic who was sharing his faith even up to the second he died. He put his daughter in the lifeboat, he gave away his life jacket, he kept going even in the water. One of the six survivors had talked to him and had given their life to the lord just before he passed away. Crazy. How would I act in that situation? But then bring it back and realize that if even my friends and family that I know here and now don't know Jesus' forgiveness then they aren't saved. Hmmm...

Anyways,

Ttyl. It may be a week. >.> I think I'm going to a bar tomorrow night. Pray for that.

D.Fa