Fly Young 810-812

So for the whole entire summer, we knew that Fly Young was visiting us from San Jose and we were excited to finally see them. So here's what happened these past three days. Good and bad. We all learned a lot and I'm really thankful to experience that.

Friday -
I wasn't really sure if I wanted to go to church to practice our drama with the other members because there wasn't any point since Stephanie left because either only 2 - 3 members were there or it was only myself and Stacey. I really felt discouraged because Stephanie asked me to coordinate the rehersal plans and I failed, in a way. But then I realized that Fly Young was here in LA for the next three days. I really wanted to see how powerful their spirits were so I rethought everything. I finally ended up calling Stacey and realized that I was a bit late because she has been there for some time. When I started driving there, my dad and I realized that the road to church was blocked off. So we tried another route but I ended up walking to church. It was really hot so I was really tired when I got there. Certain insignificant things happened that I won't discuss. So finally around 7 something, Fly Young and the Impact members started playing a game. To me, it was confusing cause they said it in Chinese and I don't understand Chinese. Ed came so I was pretty happy about that. Unfortunately, I had to leave early. *cough, dad.

Saturday -
I had to wake up very early so that I wouldn't be late and so if Sala came to pick me up, I wouldn't still be in my PJs. Sala ended up not picking me up because I didn't want to be late so I ended up driving there myself. First, we worshiped the Lord, then got into our city invasion groups, and headed off to wherever they assigned us. Lately, I wanted to go city invasion in Target, but there was never a chance to. The group that I was in was assigned to Target. Praise the Lord, right? My prayer for that came true. Enoch wanted us (Howard, Lydia, and I) to go on the opposite side of Target first because Tiffany and her group was assigned to that place too. At first, it was boring. Howard made it a bit funnier because you know how he can be when he's bored, right? Right. Finally, we got to Target and started looking around. We got rejected by at least 10 people and we prayed for 2. Actually, we prayed for all because of us being supportives when the other two asked. At the end of our city invasion, something Enoch thought was funny, I thought was horrible, happened, but I'm not going to say it. Again, I had to go home early cause this time my dad came to pick me up. It was only 15 minutes to ten. I was so frustrated. I think even Annie was irritated because my dad kept calling. Her expression was revealing. If I'm wrong, then eh.

Sunday (Today!) -
Today was the last day for Fly Young and it was awesome. We did our usual routine, but it was a bit different. Tiffany's grandpa died and her mother, Flora, was telling us a story and I just sat there crying and I couldn't stop crying. I started to think about my mom and how she hasn't found God yet. I also thought about the "what if" questions. It was really depressing and I haven't cried that much at church for a long time. But Flora did remind me of something. She reminded me that death isn't something people should be sad about, it's something that we should be happy about because like what someone once said "if one family member is saved by God, the whole family is saved by God" Amen right? When a person dies and their family, even if it's just one person, was saved by God, I believe that the person who died has been taken by God and will be forever in His hands. I was really touched because I actually realized that I had started to forget about that and I was very discouraged because the whole "whatever happens, happens" is sort of related to this. It's God's path for everyone. He had already made a path for us and we just need to seek Him, fear Him, accept Him, love Him, and glorify His name to know what path is it that He wants us to take. ------ Moving on. After the service today, we practiced a little, which I was pretty happy about because Andy and Sala did pretty well. And around 5 pm, we had to go to May's house for a baptism ceremony. Four people got baptized. They were Flora, her mother, Stephanie, and MQ. Yay! (: Then I had to go to my cousin's, Vincent's, birthday party. When I went and finished eating at my grandma's house, I looked at the time and realized that I still could get to church. I called Momo and asked if they were rehersing or whatever and she said that she was still waiting for the other people to arrive. I thought, "hey, I can go" so I told Momo that I'm coming to church. ------- Got there and helped some people rehersed. I helped Mark for a while and Alice helped Sala and Andy. When Alice wanted to see Mark and I perform, Stephanie and a few others came. So after that, we started doing scene by scene; the scenes that the people who are there at the time are in at least. It was so funny. Stephanie and Mark's scene was so hilarious. So was Andy and Sala's. When it came to the subway scene, Momo and Andy had to replace Tiffa and Howard. When Momo did Tiffa's lines, even Andy and I couldn't stop laughing. I think everyone was laughing. Andy and I couldn't even go on with our own lines. It was just too funny. Awesome day.


These past few days have been incredible. n_n Stephanie gave me a big hug when I saw her at church earlier today. MISSED THEM! I actually did my part pretty well tonight. That's what Stacey said.

- Deena Derrecks :P
aka Jasmine (hahahaha)