Pooper Scooper Village

sorry for not updating for awhile, been pretty busy with school lately. Here is something very worthy of praising God. Back in summer, when i went to China for a mission trip, i actuallay stayed in Hong Kong for a couple of days before going in. One of those days i went in with my uncle to go renew my Hong Kong citizenship card. So while there, we went through all the paperwork, until the final part when i had to talk with one of the officials. Everything was okay until he said that he couldn't give me my citizenship due to the fact that i had been out of the country for more than three years. i had been out for three years and a month. Anyways the official said that they would put it in for petition and reconsideration, but most likely i wouldn't get back my citizenship unless i lived in Hong Kong for seven years. but God was gracious to me. i prayed a pretty selfish prayer and it went something like this. If you still want me be in China in the future and to live there or work there, than please give me back my citizenship. For your information, with Hong Kong citizenship, i can get into china using a China id card and not have to apply for a visa and get renewals. So its a lot more convienet. i can basically live in china without worring about visas and passports. So my mom went back a month later to also go into china for missions, and before she went in, she took the liberty to go and appeal for my citizenship. And by God's grace after meeting and talking with officials and everything. God gave me back my citizenship. God gave it to me because the official had told me that i would only have a very slim chance of getting it back propably a maximum of 10percent chance. What is so cool about this is that i've also been praying for confirmation for what i want to do when i grow up and this is just another confirmation that God has shown me. Thank you Jesus

posted by Gary @ 1:26 PM 2 comments

on monday i went in for an interview for a biomedical library officie assistant position. the interview was scary because there was three people interviewing although the people were all very nice and friendly, but its still very intimidating when theres three people each asking a question right after each other and they all had a set questions which was three pages long. But God was good. He took me through the interview and they called me the next day telling me that i interviewed very good, but they didn't hire me. I think this was God's plan though because that same day, the lady kept telling me what a good job i did during the interview and she recommended me for another job at the biomedical library. So i went in the next day and interviewed again for that job. This time it was so laid back because the guy took me outside because it was a nice day and we did the interview out there. He also only had five questions and by the end of the interview, he said that he wanted to hire me right there, but he couldn't because he had 3 other people to interview after me. Anyways he still took me around the library and showed me the books and journals and how the place was ran. So i'm not sure to take that as a good sign or not. But i still praise God because He has provided for and He will always provide for me.

posted by Gary @ 2:24 PM 0 comments

The China trip was awesome. i will remember those kids and what God has taught me through those kids. God has taught me so much. One thing that i learned was perseverance. A lot of the time Christians, i myself included, rush people into Jesus. In china its not about the gospel message. Its about relationships. Over these two weeks we've hinted at being Christians and have probably mentioned the name Jesus, but we've never told the children the gospel message because it is against the law to do that. But because of this, we've developed such a deep relationship with these kids that it seemed like i knew them from the day i was born. There was no superficial front or in any way did they try to hide themseleves for who they are from us. Demonstrating to the children of Christ love speaks so much more than words. Our actions showed who our God was, not our words.

One time while i was teaching ultimate frisbee, one of my students fell and he ended up spilting his lip and also knocking loose his two front teeth. This was to me the worst thing that could happen to these kids. They paid several thousand to get into this two week camp and the first week was not even over, and he had to go home already because of this accident. I felt like a failure because i had not forseen this accident and prevented it. God was good, he led to me realize that He was in control and that whatever i did, it wouldn't of mattered because He wanted to demonstrate his love and compassion through this matter. Something that happened that wouldn't of happened if this incident had not happen was me being able to talk to one of the local teachers. One of the local teachers went with me to see the kid off and to help me explain to his dad what had happened. On the way back, the local teacher kept comforting me and she told me that God would heal him and that he (the kid) would be okay. After hearing that from the teacher, God spoke to me, this teacher didn't know christ, and yet she believed that God would take care of this child and heal me, and here i was, supposedly a missionary, but not believing in God's grace and mercy and his healing power. God was good and he did heal this child. Although he couldn't attend the rest of the camp because he couldn't eat hard food and had to stay at home in order to soft food. i was able to see him one last time before we left. I was so happy to see him and so see that he was okay. His two teeth did not fall out ( i actually dreamt that his teeth had fallen out and that he would not have two front teeth anymore) so praise God that he did heal him. His teeth were still there and his lip was just slightly swollen and nothing serious happened. i'm not sure how his dad treated him, i'm sure he was pretty upset at the whole incident, but i pray that God's peace would transcend over that household. To me this is a miracle.

A lot of other things happened that i could talk about, but one other thing that i eally learned from this trip is how spoiled americans are. everytime i go into china and i come back out i realized how blessed we are to have the things we have, even the poorest one of us are probably better off than the people there, (maybe excluding the homeless and stuff) anyways a simple act of trying to conserve electricity and water for the school can cause the teachers to respect us as foreign teachers so much more as friends than as teachers trying to use up the school's resources. Finding certain items such as construction paper was like trying to find a chest of gold. These kids have never been on a pirate ship, some of the have, but the majority of them have not. So a note to myself and to you all out there, please treasure you're resources, thank God for the things you have. It really is a blessing.

posted by Gary @ 8:25 PM 0 comments

learning to deal with anger is a hard thing. sometimes i just want to scream and other times i just want to sit around and be introverted. arghh... God help me. i just dont know how to handle it anymore. its driving me crazy.God i need your grace i need your mercy. help me God. i'm desperate for change. i want to change, i need to change. God release me from all of this anger.

posted by Gary @ 9:59 PM 0 comments

i am a dogggg

posted by Gary @ 10:39 AM 0 comments

at davis, i crashed with one of my high school friends. it was awesome, i haven't had such a good conversation in such a long time, we stayed up till like 2 talking about stuff and just relevant issues. The awesome thing is how open he was. we shared our thoughts and our experiences with each other. i just love it when people are so honest, it makes conversations so lively and so thoughtful. These are the momments that i treasure so much, because there is no artificality (if thats a word) in the conversation. thanks for such a great time, and may God bless you continually.

posted by Gary @ 9:22 PM 0 comments

I must give glory to God for what happened. This friday was the first time i led prayer in a long time and His spirit moved powerful, he moved us to repentance on behalf of this campus and prophetic words were spoken over the campus. The interesting thing that happened to be was before entering into this time i was really scared, i was intimated and i felt very inadequate. But this is where God wanted me to be. By being inadequate, i was able to allow God to come work. It was awesome, God was the focus of the night and nothing that i did am i able to give glory to myself, but it is all to God. Learning to surrender what he has given me including the gifts that he has given is a powerful act of worship. God is so awesome. when you are faithful with little he will increase what you have. When you are willing to give up yourself so that you will decrease than God will increase. Be faithful with what He and desire more of Him.

posted by Gary @ 12:21 PM 0 comments