KIWI adventure- when God’s plans get in your way… (you’d be glad it did)

God is so good. He makes me realize and reminds me ever so often of how faithful he is. When I sometimes feel anxious, and doubt rises up… i realize that I am where I should be and I am blessed–overwhelmingly blessed. And so begings my memoirs of how ayel and I left from manila to NZ to attend the HouRa youth conference in wellington.

THE KIWI ADVENTURE Highlights:

•  DSWD? WE DONT HAVE ONE- yes, i traveled w/ a minor with no DSWD papers. I was kind of nervouse especially when i saw that it was roughly less than an hour before boarding and we still havent gone through immigration. told ayel “You better start praying in tongues” coz i knew that the only way we would be allowed to fly WITHOUT the DSWD docs was if God spoke to that Immigration supervisor’s heart!— and He did. Hurdle one passed! God is good!                                                                                                         ————————————————>
• THE LOST SOUL (Filipina in Hngkng)- we had a 2 hour stopover in hongkong, and since we wanted to have a look around- we thought we’d buy a set of cards to amuse ourselves. (me and ayel) We sat down in front of one of the stores (mahal kasi lahat hehehe) and suddenly this girl came and aske dif we were filipino. at jazette a filipina 1st time ofw from nueva ecija- spending a 10 hr stop over in HK, then heads to London, then she will fly to moscow to work as a spa. We shared some experience with her nad soon we were crying— she will not be back for another couple of years— she left her 6 year old daughter home- her own mom was an ofw in the US who never got back to her. We prayed w/ her and soon we had to leave. I just pray that she will be ok now.            ———————————————>
• OOPPPS missed FLIGHT!- oh no! 15 min and our connecting flight from auckland to wellington is set to leave. we ran out of the intl airport and thought we’d make a dash for the doemstic (since we saw some gramps making the run for it) and boy where we wrong! long story short, the gramps outraced us, we missed our flight and we had to take another flight! good thing the dyers were very patient! hallelujiah!                         ——————————————->
• HOBBITS- nice! we saw the shooting place of where frodo and sam ran and hid from teh horsemen, we also got to see WETA the workshop who did the post prod of lord of teh rings series! man it was AWESOME!                                                                   ——————————->
•  DALLAS and the KIWI PUZZLE- there was this kiwi puzzle that NO ONE could solve– and i did (with ayel’s help) when we did it, malcomn was so excited he took a pic! Dallas a visiting friend of the dyers was so sweet too! it was cool that she got to hang with us at Te papa where we saw the…                                                                                                      ———————————>
• COLLOSAL SQUID- one of the main attraction of WELLINGTOn is the TE PAPA musem where the giant baby squid caught last 2008 is being held in exhibit! it is pretty huge- we enjoyed a 3d movie of it too!                                                                             ————————————–>
• DYER TRIBE and the TRAMP- im talking about the TRAMPOLINE in their giant backyard (which had so many animals! and mint grass- hate dthe grazss flies which bite and gives you an itch very much like a msoquito!) jumpig on the tramp was FUN! thanks kiddies (naomi, isaac, gideon, joshua)                                                                                                         ——————————–>
• UNO- going home we had played UNO with the Haddows- jackie, joe and danny. I won once while they won a copule of times. It was cool just sitting down and playing cards. we only o this on outings so this is something new.( we were also listening to some disney and some beattles on danny’s itouch— cool combo eh?)                                             ———————————>
•  BEACH TIME- the haddows brought us to the beach and me and joe chased some seagulls away! it was sooooo cool! the kids where really fun to play witha dn jackie was such a darling since she brought us to these places, played uno with us and even let us watch a movie!                                                                                             —————————————–>
•  CHAT CHAT- we did nothing but chat! about God mostly and it was a refreshing change! Phil shared about evangelism to us in camp and after camp i found out his aprents are austrian catholics which were (as he said) very legalistic… anyways i realized we do all have our ups and downs and its really a matter of putting things into perspective                  ————————————–>
• BABY NATE - he looked like a cute cabbage patch doll! but how english peeps carry their kids gives you an idea how and why their kids are really strong! its so cool coz they hold babies with just one arm! BJ and gareth were awesome! gareth can talk a mile a minute while BJ was just lovely!                                                                                                          —————————————->
• the GORGE RUN down— yes i went on the gorge run (hike) BUT only for the first 50 or so steps! after that i decided to turn around and give myself a break hahahaah! i was in no condition to do it! no way!                                                                                ——————————————>
• my 2GB corrupted pic disc— sigh sigh yes, most memories (pics) i took was erased… sigh sigh… bt everything is in my heart so i guess that is ok too… sigh!

more next time! im kinda tired

but i am happy and re energized! God is good!