The Bryans....

I thought this was hilarious so I wanted to share it. These to men are both Bryan: Bryan Shaw and Bryan Kuranga. They both lead cell groups at our church and help with student ministries. AND if that wasn't enough: They both have the exact same car.

Taking the Metro to LA...

This sign was infront of the Los Angeles Court House with the top sign as "Our Sister Cities". I am going to Taipei!!! and I went to Guangzhou two years ago!!

If you click on this picture it will come up larger so you can see that it says: Chinese Population in Los Angeles, 1850: 2. Two Chinese people were in the city! Jeanelle thought this was amazing so we had to take a picture by it!

The Market....

I do my grocer shopping at Super H Mart around the corner from my house. The other grocery stores in the area are:

99 Ranch and DoReMe. Have you ever heard of those? Me Neither. The picture above is the candy aisle!! I can never read what I am buying so I am left to just looking at the pictures. The other picture is a bin of alive crabs. There are many bins of living creatures around the store. It's smelly....

Congrats Grads still....

A long day of Graduations... We went to them back to back!
Congrats Rachel Hu!! Welcome to Berkeley!

Congrats Eva! Welcome to Cal State Fullerton!!

Congrats Grads!

There are many graduations to attend... I still have two more!

Congrats to LUNA! Welcome to High School!

Congrats Erica! Welcome to BIOLA!! So many people from church came to support the graduates!

Congrats Chris!! Welcome to College!

Congrats Grace!! Welcome to College!!

Ministries

Work has definately been interesting and busy this week!

First, Wilson and Patty are also on staff in the English ministry and the three of us visited Maryvale which was founded as The Los Angeles Orphan Asylum way back in 1856. Today the Orphanage is in Monterey Park and is on 16 acres of land. During the summer volunteers from church will be going to Maryvale twice a week on every Tuesday and Wednesday. Currently, Patty and I are putting together the activities, games, waterpark trip, cake decorating day, etc for the girls at the orphange. Church volunteers will start going Tuesday the 24th. I am mostly in charge of faciliating and organizing with Patty. Please pray for this time as many youth from church will be serving here during the summer.

At cell group tonight I will be leading discussion on Ecclesiastes 2, "Pleasures are Meaningless".

Please pray for wisdom while speaking and for the hearts of the youth hearing and reading the Word.

Some girls and I are doing: Read the New Testament in a Month!

Okay so this is very ambitious of us but we are going to do it! We are reading 10 chapters a day and that will equal the whole NT within a month. We are starting today so feel free to jump in along side us!

Prayer Request: Unity of the missions team going to Taiwan and Korea! I am having the girls on the trip over on Saturday and we are baking for a fundraising bake sale! I hope this to be a great time for us girls on the team to bond and spend time together before we leave for Taiwan.

A peek into my new neighborhood!

It has been such an interesting start to the internship. I am living with one of the pastor's mothers in Diamond Bar which is south of Hacienda Heights. It is also a highly diverse area and my neighborhood is mostly Asian. I am living with Annie Chan and we get along great so far. The first night there I learned how to make dumpling soup. She has taught me how to make vegetables more tasty with different spices and has taught me to make some stir fry! On Saturday night she passed me a bowl of rice and there were little 0ne-two inch fish in it. She was eating them whole with her chopsticks so I followed her lead! It wasn't too bad! Once I got over the fact that I could feel the fish head and all, it was actually quite good; plus very healthy.


Above in the picture on the right is of one of the shopping centers. It is actually in Rowland Heights but just minutes from the church. This is what most streets surrounding the church and my house look like. Many signs are in Chinese and the workers within the store do not all speak English.
The picture to the left is the Mandarin Church service at Great Commission Church International (my church!). The website for the church is: ucchh.org -however it is all in Chinese!! There is an option to translate to English but it isn't always accurate or great.

This morning we had an all church staff meeting where both the Mandarin church staff and English staff were both present. Those are always my favorite. We start with worship and then pray. Everyone is kneeled on prayer pillows in the prayer room in which we do not wear shoes. The meeting is probably 90% prayer. We go around and each give a short statement about our ministry and prayer requests. The whole time is devoted to prayer for members who are sick, pregnant, getting married, ministries, students, leaders, China earthquake, and many other things! Everyone prays at the same time so the room is very loud. Two languages are being spoken and it is an amazing sound! This is how I get to start my every morning! What a blessing :)