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Name: Prisque
Birthday: 12/29/1989
Gender: Female
Interests: serving the Lord, spanish, recycling, saving water, being weird, singing, making fun of sabrina
Occupation: Student
Industry: Hospitality
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Member Since:
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| wow.i'm done with my first year of college. hooray!
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| i took my chem midterm today."My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. "
-Psalms 73: 26
(from James' lesson on despondency.... haha i put the paper up on my closet door!)
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| summer projecthello :) so i kind of have something on my mind right now, and i'm going to write about it... not like venting or anything... but yeah. so this summer, i'm going to go on a summer project with Epic and the trip is sponsored by Campus Crusade - it's like a short term missions trip, okay not like.. it is, and it's been pretty interesting with this whole prayer letter/support raising ness because i've never had to do this before, and it's kind of weird learning to trust God in different ways, like providing for you financially for a trip, but from what ive heard from the juniors and seniors of Epic, you learn a lot about God's provision - since you're really depending on it for this trip - but anyway so the reason why i wanted to write about this is because i applied for/got accepted into the summer project for Hawaii, and i know everyone's first reaction to Hawaii - and this what my initial reaction was too - is like the perfect vacation spot... it makes sense, right? because it's a beautiful place, everyone wants to go there and relax and enjoy the beaches and talk to the locals... and the response i got from some people to whom i handed my prayer letters to and told them where i'm going was, "what? hahaha... hawaii? thats not missions..." in a kind of jokingly-but-not way, and i think that's a natural response, but at the same time it's really messed up, and i dont even know why i get kind of annoyed/hurt/offended when people say that, but it's like... there are nonchristians on every continent, in every country, in every state, and every city, and Hawaii is no exception. i mean, yea, the typical missions trips are to poor countries like china, or mexico, or some other third world country, but that doesn't mean that missions is confined to those types of places... and if God didn't send out college students like ourselves, who would share the gospel with the locals in Hawaii? so the reason i'm writing this is because a couple people tonight, and before, responded in a really hurtful way when gave them my prayer letter and was going to ask them to pray for me, but i wont mention who they are, obviously, but i hope i made it clear in my letter that God's work isn't only meant for places where poverty levels are high, He wants everyone to know the gospel - including the college students in Hawaii. that's all. | | |
| SF Spring OutreachHello! So. I just got back from San Francisco like 30 minutes ago from the San Francisco Spring Outreach trip with Epic! It was basically like retreat with one day of outreach, and i just wanted to write about what we did while its fresh in my mind.. plus my mom isn't going to pick me up for another 30 minutes. haha :)
So we left on Tuesday, and I was in Nich's car (they were leaving Irvine at 6AM to get there early so they could buy the food up there) with Cindy, Trinh, and Anh, and since we were leaving so early in the morning, I had to come back to school on Monday night. Cindy and Jedrek were coming down from SD on Monday night too, which was perfect because Cindy could stay over in my room and we could leave together and Nich wouldn't have to pick us up in two separate places, so she came over and we talked, and wasted time for a little bit, then after Jedrek finished putting his stuff away in his room he came over, we picked songs for worship, practiced a little, then he left and Cindy and I went to bed around 1, and we had to get up at 5:30 to get ready for Nich to pick us up at 6:00... so we both set our alarms, mine was set for 5:30, and I forgot when she set hers for. so.. we go to sleep. wake up - my alarm was retarded ( i think i forgot to turn it off when i left on friday so it went off and one of my roommates had to turn the volume down because they didnt know how to shut it off) and we didn't hear it - so we woke up at like 5:49 or 5:59 - either way we were freaking out because we were supposed to be ready to leave at 6. so we both jump out of bed, i run to the bathroom to brush my teeth, finish, then i go back towards my room to finish getting ready, but i got to the door to find Cindy standing outside of it holding her toothbrush and towel staring at the door handle in horror. So apparently, in Arroyo Vista (her housing community), the doors can be unlocked, but in Middle Earth (my dorm), the doors lock when you close them so you have to deadbolt them... so she locked us out of my room at around 6 in the morning... and we were standing outside with only our toothbrushes and towels. so first, there was a moment of silence/horror where we were both just standing there staring at the door handle then looking at each other, then we were like "OH MAN nich is going to call and come at any minute!" so thankfully, my friend nathalie nextdoor was there and awake - our hall was pretty much empty because people already went home - so we used her cellphone to call duty line (they are the people who come when you lock yourself out) and i woke the girl up that was on call and this dude came half asleep to unlock our door and check my ID and everything, and then we rushed like CRAZY to get ready and we waited for Nich outisde. But really, praise the Lord nathalie was there and had the number for duty line, or else i dont know... haha.
So anyway, we had a really nice ride up, we made a few stops, and then we got up there, went to costco - super fun buying a ton of food - and we got back to the hostel where we were staying at in Marin Headlands... then. yeah. hm. let me think. i just got distracted.
Okay so each day we had meal crew people who had to get there 30 minutes early and prepare the meals and serve and clean up. So for Wednesday and Thursday it was like: Breakfast, Worship+Devotional led by a student, Extended time with the Lord (aka personal devotions), Lunch, Funtivities (games), Free Time, Dinner, Talk led by a staffer, then more free time/sleep. I had a really good time getting to know people in Epic, some kids from Davis, and one girl from SB, and it was just a really good time of fellowship - okay. so i have to go now. i will finish this soon. hahaha
okay. continuing.
So yea.. wednesday and thursday were both pretty chill days - actually the whole trip was pretty chill - and it was really cool to see students lead the devotional time, because we don't really see that stuff at fcbc... except for committee time and stuff. but yea that was one of the things that i like about epic, like how they push students to lead and try things out. i will expand on that later... if i remember.
(btw if u get tired - claire i know you will haha - u dont have to read this, i just wanted to write it out so i dont forget)
and something that really convicted me during this trip was the main point of Nich's talk on Wednesday night about having spiritual poverty and how we need it to grow closer to God. So the verse we were looking at is from the beatitudes - Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven - and we were studying this in ROCK a couple weeks ago, and it is just so important that we realize our depravity and how much we really need God. We need to understand that our faith in God is reliant upon our spiritual poverty because it makes us go to Him in search of answers, which He totally provides. Also, spiritual poverty forces us to grow, because we have to seek God. I really enjoyed listening to this message becuase its so applicable, especially right now, because its so easy to be spiritually arrogant (if that makes sense... like... feeling like youre doing "okay" spiritually) and not really give yourself fully to the Lord. Like when we share with our smallgroups about how we are each doing in our own personal walks with the Lord, it's always like "eh its okay but it could be better" but we dont really do anything about it - we dont strive to spend quality time with God every day or make a special effort to improve our prayer lives... we kind of just share it and move on. so i thats something i want to change. and please ask me about it or remind me. thanks :)
so we were split up into smallgroups during the trip, and we would meet every night after the talk, and Anh was my smallgroup leader, and it was just me and a 4th year from SB named Jennifer in our group. She did a really good job of leading our discussion and kind of just guiding it in the right way, but i just wanted to say that one of my favorite parts of this trip was being able to spend time talking to Anh about her testimony (because she didnt have enough time to share hers with us during smallgroup) after smallgroup time. So she became a Christian during her freshman year of college, and for me to see someone come to the Lord on their own is so encouraging becuase it's not like a lot of us FCBC kids who grow up in church and have it really easy - we're like spoonfed the gospel and we get to take babysteps of faith. But Anh was the first person in her family to accept Christ, and she was telling me how she had to tell her family and how hard it was for her - and i was just like.. speechless. To see this kind of courage is so cool, and its really sad how my spiritual life has been relatively easy to live, with encouragement from counselors, an awesome church family, and things like that. And it is super encouraging to see her faith in God, also her testimony is so strong because she came to the Lord on her own - it wasn't her parents bringing her to church every week. but yea... by having the opportunity to talk to her, God opened my eyes to His saving grace and that He is working in the lives of people. does that make sense? haha i have all of these thoughts in my head im not even sure if im typing them out correctly. wow. i wonder how long this is now.
anyways. overall, i am very thankful that i went on the spring outreach - OH MY GOSH. i forgot to write down like the most important... okay not most important but muy importante.
so on Friday, the last full day - it was our day of outreach, and that's also another thing that i really like about Crusade/Epic - is their emphasis on sharing the gospel and really applying what you learn at conferences and retreats instead of just letting it sit in your head and save it for later. So basically, we had a little training meeting before we left as a refresher and we went over the four spiritual laws, talked about conversation starters, etc. and then we split up into teams of 4, and we went to share in San Francisco in pairs. So we stayed in Marin Headlands for the whole time except for our day of outreach, which we spent in SF. Our team went to Golden Gate Park, where most of us went, and a couple teams went to Haight Street (some... street.). I am so thankful that my partner was Nich (our driver - and hes on staff) because he has a lot of experience with sharing the gospel to strangers (its still a new thing for me) and he has really good people skills. So we went out walking around the park to see if there were any people that God stuck out for us to share with, but there was like.. no one at the park. we asked one lady if we could ask her some questions, she said no, then... eventually we talked to some boys and this one really cute old guy that had a stroke the year before, and i mostly just sat there and listened and smiled and nodded, but while we were walking (we walked for a long time) i got to ask nich a lot of questions about his experiences in evangelism and about a lot of other things. and yea it was just a really good time of talking and i think learned a lot from just listening to him talk and watching God guide the conversations - like we were talking to the old guy just about life and his beliefs about God (it was weird.. some God-realization or something..) but in the end, he asked nich for his contact info, and nich pulled out the KGP booklet (knowing God personally) to write it on the back, and what do you know? on the other side, it's the four spiritual laws! so yea. God has great timing. i love it. Anyway, yea God taught me a lot. PTL! (not pastor tony lin.)
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| you know what's sad?... when your roommates tell you you were talking about bio in your sleep.
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