YOUTH CAMP WAS AWESOME.

i mean it was totaLly awesome. its beyond awesome. we had so much fun together..!
most of the time it was pretty free and easy. first day was water games, and i was like i WILL NOT get wet..and in the end i got drenched anyway hahaha....but it was very fun. we had to collect water by biting these water bombs dat were tied to the goal post. ahaha...eveyrone's saliva all inside it was actyually quite sick...den we had to lift a bucket of water wif our feet while taking our shoes off....dat was pretty fun too!!! the last game was the Word fo Faith one, where some people had to roll around in a mess of disgusting stuff(mud,peanut butter,leaves,water,soap...) and find the pieces of paper with word of faith on them. and i was unfolding the soggy paper...hahaha...den we alls tood in the basketball court rehearsing dat Rugby cheer until it was time to wash up....
and then it was sermon time!!
pastor preached such a powerful sermon i was so inspired. he was tyeaching about loving Others...which is kind alike the theme. WIlliam Booth, the founder of Salvation ARmy, worte only one word on his last letter with the goals of the SA on it and it was Others . dat was the ginning of the time which impacted me the most. Pastor shared about the Titanic, and how WIlliam Harper, a pastor on board sacrificed his life while trying to save people and bring them to Christ. He was swimming in the water and asking people, Are you saved? and just before he died, he said something along the lines of Believe in the Lord and you will be saved.
then he shared about the Empress of Ireland, a ship sailing to London. There were 170 salvation army youths on board when the ship sank, and they were all in the water. and what really touched me was when pastor told us about one of the girs who was with the youth group. She threw her life vest to a burly man and told him to take it. He said no, and threw it back. and she replied, "Take it, you need it more than i do!"

It wAS really powerful, because i knew that if i had been in the water, i probably would not have sacrificed my liufe so readily for someone who was Unsaved. Then i heard soemthing even more powerful-- pastor said, if we could just spend five minutes in hell, we would go all out to save people. and i really believe its true, because soemtimes i imagine my really good freinds in hell and it really kills me. Pastor prayed for us then, and then he said to me while i was standing there with people praying for me, he said that my life would change, and my old self was dying. He said that all my life i had not given God my all, always holding back. and i was so impacted and so moved i fell and i realised how completely true it was.

the second night's sermon was by Pastor Lia. she talked about how some of us have a distorted self image and when we have that we cannot love others. yet again i was really impacted, because i was never really someone who had the highest self confidence-- it takes just a little milestone to make me trip. i was so blessed by the message, because i realised that i am made by God himself, and my value cannot be taken away. and then pastor Lia shared about her past and her testimony, and i was so touched i was so close to crying....it was really amazing. pastor how prayed for me again, which was soemthing i didn't expect and i was so glad he did, because he really spoke into my life and made me realise many things. it was through him that God really changed me and made me a new person...I heard so clearly from God, that i am someone who follows her convictions and beliefs, but now i must follow through the most important conviction of all--Loving GOd and others, and going deep in God and rising up.

after those two sermons i was very very touched and i left the camp a totally different person. i felt myself change so much inside it amazed me...i can really feel that i am starting my change right here and now. now i know my destiny and i will fight for it, shatter the cage and fly free. I am going to be a great Leader of many people, i am going to save many souls and i am going to move people and reach out to them trhough the words i write...

i will finish the race, i will keep the Faith.