Hellooo!

Good morning :)

I hope all of you are having a great, relaxing and God-glorifying summer!

Just last week, I moved into my new apt in 423 Kelton (right beneath Ash!) and my, has it been cool (but tiring)! Already I see the bonuses of living in an apt...there are so many opportunities to serve each other, whether it's cooking or helping people move in. Fellowshipping with GOC friends at UCLA has been especially sweet so far because a lot of us are here and it's convenient to spiritually stimulate one another. But I've realized, almost immediately, that the apartment life is going to be a continuous struggle in some aspects as well. It's been difficult to live with Mimi again in a different environment, but I see God growing and stretching me to be more gracious and patient and to see that God has blessed me with many things (including a place to live!) so I should not complain or grumble in my heart.

I've been going back to home church on the weekend - bible study on Saturdays and church+sunday school on Sundays. It's amazing to see that God worked mightily through the Resolved Conference as some of our church leaders went to the conference and came back more aware of heaven and hell and the Gospel. During bible study, the people who went were able to share about what we learned and during worship we sang songs about heaven. The next day, our sunday school teacher taught more passages from Revelation and OT about encountering the holiness of God (which tied into the throne room of God in Rev.) So all that is to say, I feel very blessed to be at home church and to be growing with these brothers and sisters!

Though things are busy and going well, I can identify with Ashley's frustration especially in the areas of personal worship. It's so easy to succumb to laziness and not pray and read the Bible as I ought to even if I'm doing other spiritual activities. I don't know how many of you read this blog entry from girltalk but i'm going to copy and paste the link here for all of you to read again! It's been so helpful for me to remind myself of this verse: “If then you have been raised up with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth” (Col. 3:1-2, RSV).

http://girltalk.blogs.com/girltalk/2008/06/setting-our-min.html

I also have some prayer requests:

1) Next week I'm flying out to Arizona for the deloitte national leadership conference. I'm a little anxious because I don't know anyone at the conference and I'm not particularly good at meeting new people. But please pray that I won't be worried during the whole thing! and that I will be a salt and light at the conference.
2) Yesterday, I attended the conference call with everyone going to Taiwan and I'm super excited! Please pray that the Gospel will be at the top of all the TAs (including me!) priority during the 2 weeks and that God will soften the students who will attend the camp so that their hearts could be fertile ground for the Gospel.

That's all for now, thank you! Please post as I'm dying to hear what all of you have been up to!

LOVE,
Lucy



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Hi everybody,

Thank you Ash for posting! It's really cool to feel like I'm kind of in touch with all you through this nifty blog. But for now, I don't think I'm going to blog as my eyelids are coming over my eyeballs and Im nodding off at my laptop...

So au revoir until tomorrow!

MISS YOU GIRLS MUCHO

Love,
Gma Lucy