6/28/12

Hello my friends. As I am writing this to you right now this morning today is my brother's birthday! He is now 16 years old and I am happy that is growing up. I also had to wake up super early this morning at 5am so that I could get dressed and be prepared before I leave this morning to my older brother's wedding down in San Diego. It's going to be a long drive down, my goodness haha. But hey, I got my music along with my bible. Nothing better than taking the Word of God with you on long trips or anywhere you go! haha. Well before I leave this morning I would like to tell all of you that I will be gone for five days and will be coming back next Tuesday, so I will be absent from doing blog posts on any of those days. But don't worry! Once I come back next Tuesday, I will be ready to post again. So please be patient with me. There are some upcoming activities that are coming these net few days (especially my older brother's wedding). Well this is goodbye for now my friends, but I will return to you next week, so be patient and have a wonderful Sabbath! I will have a Sabbath day as my own as well, so I will definitely be spending time with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord!!!

6/26/12

Yesterday was yet another busy day. Me and my dad left to Marshalls in the morning to look for shoes for my brother's wedding this upcoming Saturday. I was acting like a child like I always do in front of my dad because he tends to embarrass me  sometime and I act like that so it makes him irritated, so he WON'T do embarrassing things in front of me in public. After we bought the shoes we went back home and I got my check that my friend Michael dad's who is part of my Church and me and my dad went to Bank of America so I can learn how to deposit my check. It really was not that complicated and now I know how to do it myself. Then as me and my dad were discussing in the car whether I would get a haircut or not, we changed our plans and I drove over to SuperCuts which is close to our house and I got a haircut there. Well, let's just say it was not the most pleasant experience nor the best haircut I have ever gotten. My told told the hairstylist there to cut it short on the bottom but leave the top with a lot of hair (that was not my plan). I always have it cut short all over my hair since my stepmom cuts it, but this time my dad wanted me to look nice for the wedding when in reality I looked hideous. I have never gotten a haircut as worse as the one I got yesterday. My dad said that he wanted to try something new and cool, but I didn't want that. I want to look like me, not someone else or "cool". I just want my haircut like it always has been, but my dad wanted me to have it cut differently for the wedding so I can look "better". I am never having my dad around when I am getting a haircut. Next time I get a haircut at SuperCuts, I am going to be sure to tell the hair stylist to cut my hair short and equal all over just like my stepmom has executed in the past. Now I look like a freak, (sigh). Now I can't wait for my hair to grow back. Short on the bottom and long on the top, that is just wrong to me. Anyway, we came home after and I was really unsatisfied with my haircut so my dad decided to take me back and get it fixed. After the finished product, I walked out and after I looked in the mirror, I saw that my hair looked like someone from Dragonball Z. If you don't know what Dragonball Z is, it was a very popular cartoon shows from the 1990s. When we came home my dad embarrassed me more by introducing me to the rest of my family in a wild enthusiastic way. He would be dancing like a goofball and all did was try to escape my dad's presence as well as the rest of my family that were participating in trying to humiliate me. My hair looked absolutely ugly, and it was sticking up like a wild porcupine. So I went in the shower to wash it off and my hair was back to it's same condition as it was before I got my haircut. That's pretty much how my day was yesterday. But each day is a gift from our God no matter how strenuous or easy it is, with His help and guidance, I can get through anything! Amen!!!

The Lord talking

As I was thinking about what was I going to do about my job and about where I was going to live the Lord showed me something in His Word that really calmed me down. It's in Psalm 27:14 that reads "Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." I knew that the Lord was comforting me with that in His Word and I am so thankful for what He showed me! And while I was still thinking about where I was going to live whether it would be in Florida or here in California, I just wanted the Lord to speak to me and I was even asking Him with a humble heart. Then suddenly out of nowhere I heard a voice saying to me in my heart "Son, wherever you go, remember that I am still sovereign. You can keep asking people for a place to stay but nothing you do can alter my plans for you." I knew from that point on that I had my prayer request answered. God answered me and I knew it was from Him. I was just waiting on the Lord for an answer and I got my answer. I was comforted right at that point forward and now hearing from the Lord it was just making me even more happier. The Lord speaks through His Word but He also speaks through a small still voice, if only you will listen to Him and read His Word. Just pray about it also. He will answer. Now I don't need to worry about where I will live or what job I will get. I just need to trust the Lord knowing that He is good and that whatever He does is good all the time. Amen!!!

6/23/12

Man, yesterday was crazy! Not in a bad sense, but in a fun sense haha. For the graduation party yesterday all the seniors (including me) had to sit in chairs and my friend Leslie who coordinated mostly the event and Katrina asked us questions. The first one was humorous just for laughs while the rest of them were for example: what challenges did you face in High School and how did you overcome then? Do you have any regrets? Each group sat on the chairs and answered the questions, I was in the second group. Only a couple questions were changed, but most of them were the same for all of us. After that we moved on to the next activity which was a game from our pastor. He told all of us senior to come up and sit on the chairs and asked the incoming seventh graders to come up. We were also celebrating them as well. There were at least two seventh graders assigned to each senior and their job was to take hair gel and style our hair differently. Whoever hair was best styled, those seventh graders would receive a prize. The crowd was telling the seventh graders behind me who were going to style my hair to make it into a mohawk or a fohwak. I am so glad they didn't! Whew! Hahaha. There was also gel that spilled onto my shoulder when the activity was in action, ew. But the prize went to these two seventh graders. After I went to the bathroom and washed the gel out of my hair in the sink I mingled with everyone at the party. I was just goofing off but then suddenly my friend Justin spilled pink juice onto me after I swerved into him doing a famous hand gesture that I do. I had pink juice on my right shoulder, the same shoulder where the seventh graders spilled the gel onto me. I went to the bathroom and second time and washed that off a little before it stained my shirt even more, but it's still pink. I now need to wash the shirt in the laundry again. It was a fun night that I spent last night and now today I am reading the wonderful Word of God. I have actually overcome my fear of men by reading what the Lord says in His Word. Now I don't have to be afraid anymore. Today is going to be a wonderful day of worship, reading the Word of God and spending time with Him. Amen.

6/22/12

Today was another busy day for me. This morning I forgot to have breakfast, oops. Then I was watching the soccer match between Germany and Greece, Germany won and they played excellent by winning with four goals, wow! Then after I had to wash my car which of course took time, but what took more time was that after that I had to clean the inside of my car with 409, a sponge, and paper towels. After that was finished, my next task was that I had to use to windex to clean my car windows. I only cleaned one of my car windows since it was covered with spit that was from my brother. Then I cleaned my front windshield. From whatever daily task I had to do today I know that it was for the glory of God because He is worthy to be praised no matter when! Day or night, let His name be proclaimed to the highest heavens that He created. Amen. And also tonight is a graduation party for all the seniors that have graduated, including me! It's at my Church building (Church is not a building, it's the group of people). I'm really excited but humble at the same time knowing that it's Christ that got me through High School and I was on the verge of dropping out of High School but He pushed me through and I am not a High School dropout. Praise the Lord!!!

6/21/12

My dreams are too surreal nowadays. Last night I had a dream that I was at an amusement park, like Disneyworld, Disneyland, etc. And I was in the middle of the parade and it was coming my way. And somehow I found myself trapped inside these walls and they were closing in on me fast and I almost could not escape and there were knobs that I jumped on top with like some kind of acrobatic person (more like Jackie Chang!) and I climbed on top, then jumped down. It was a really long fall from the top of the wall to the floor and I don't know how I managed to survive it. I was able to escape through all of the walls but barely. Then my next dream which was suddenly after it, it was as if I was transported to my next location faster than light speed. As if I didn't notice that I had already switched locations. I was in a cafe kinda like Starbucks. And I was with my friend Austin, this girl that graduated with me from Irvington High School named Jinny Ya Yan and a couple other people. I remember I was talking with the person that worked there and her name was Rachel. She was talking to me about me getting a job there and told me to contact her. She was Asian-American and I was just chatting with her and she told me that she was married to Austin, not sure if it was my good Christian friend Austin or it was another person named Austin that I didn't know. But those were my two dreams I had recently last night. It was interesting, because both of them had to do with life situations that are currently happening and had happened. I believe the first one may have been a close call with me almost getting killed last Saturday night in a car accident, since I was climbing those walls and barely making it out representing how close I was to getting killed in the accident. And the second one represented me trying to look for a job or getting a job. Not sure why I had these dreams, but I know that God does things for a reason. The Lord Jesus gave me these dreams for a reason and I am going to ask Him why and what do they mean in reality. It could mean what I have described above but of course the Lord's ways and thoughts are higher (Isaiah 55:8-9). That's what I wanted to share with you guys. But my dreams are becoming so much more surreal now they literally felt like I am experiencing reality now as I type this. That is how real my dreams are. Anyway's take care and God bless all you!

Lecrae Church Clothes. Excellent song! :D

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