Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

7:48 PM  La: my mama always said, "If you gonna pray, don't worry. But if you're gonna worry don't pray."

... thanks for the reminder Lavida.

I left my heart..... and hip bone.. in Manila

I thought it would be easier for me to leave the second time around, it was actually harder now that the excitement of seeing America is gone. Several things changed, I guess in my head my friends didn't grow up at all so i was surprised to see them all grown up now.. eh made me feel old eventho most of them were a year or 2 years older than I am. They were very sweet, I still don't understand why they won't let me pay... they said it's a filipino thing they don't let girls pay, the guy ALWAYS pay. I'm not sure if I like that rule or not, I guess if i grew up there I wouldn't mind since filipinas there are really really spoiled. I felt really bad, I didn't want them to do that but they did anyways...... sheesh.

I saw some of the cousins I've never met, they forced me to speak tagalog since they didn't understand a thing I was saying which was good for me because my first week there I could not stop speaking in english. I got so used to it that I can't stop. After a week of being with my cousins, now I can't stop speaking in tagalog. I saw some of the kids I grew up with in our old church. They were hilarious!they were so sweet, they took me out to dinner and to the 3rd biggest mall in the world (or in Asia.. I'm not really sure, but supposedly they have the biggest IMAX). It's just crazy seeing all these people when I was younger, we used to play every sunday and now I see how they're such a blessing to the church and how God is using them. I'm still overwhelmed by it all... The people there are very very different from the people here, the Filipinos over there made everybody here look rude. Ha it's cool tho, people there stare which I thought was rude too sheesh......... anyways, I don't really want to go in depth about my trip, I'm still a little emotional about it and I don't feel like crying anymore. So here....... here's some now and then pictures.

^^ with my cousin I grew up with-- before Joy and Vanessa existed

^^ with my ate diane

^ with Tin, we've known each other for the longest time, she's pretty much like a sister to me.

^^ my bestfriend Mary, we used to get in trouble in school all the time for being really loud.

^ my first prom date, believe it or not we've known each other since prep.

The guy wearing the brown shirt, is the reason why I'm scared of frogs. When we were in 5th grade, he decided to put a frog in my bag just to be funny. Eversince then I'm scared of frogs.

OHHHHHHHHH YEAH. guesss who I foundddddddd!!! Joy's boyfriend : KR

yeah. that's him already.. its so weird. Too bad Joy wasn't there. Just kidding, that's not Joy's boyfriend calm down.... but they used to tease Joy and him when we were younger.

MBC Youth

the rest are here: http://community.webshots.com/user/genny041887