Rock Climbing

2/28, Saturday, the date we expected for a long time to go to rock climbing! From this year, our church teens group is changing to a new style, instead of meeting inside with familir Christians, now we have more outing activities to invite new friends to join with us. What is the Gospel? Gospel means Good News, Good News should be shared with good friends! =) I'm so happy and really thankful to God that Wally and Yunusa came, and they brought a new friend Benjamin came along with. Its really a special experience for them and for me as well. :)
I just love making friends with foreigners, especially African people! Its a wonderful thing to be friends with them and share life with them. They are kind, friendly, honest about their feelings and willing to try new things.
Wally and Yunusa said that they love Taiwan because Taiwanese are good people, then I can say I love Africa becos Africans are good people. ha.
But Benjamin has a different opinion. He said Taiwan people are ....(?) I forget what he said, anyway, he feels that Taiwanese are self-centered. For example, when people meet they don't greet each other...yea I agree what he said, Africans are very different, that's why I like African people, they are not shy as Asians do. I don't like shy people, well, I'm kind of shy person sometimes..:p

We church friends invited our own friends to join the activity this time, about 30 people in total.
We divided into 4 groups. and sure I have to be with my lovely friends to be their interpretor.
oh....I found out that I don't know so much English words, difficult to express exactly, but thank God that they can understand what I want to say.....thank them for their understanding. ;)

Oh its our turn to climb the rocks, Yunusa is just a very brave person, he always be the first one to try new things. haha, so great! Wally was the second, and Ben said that he is the best so he will be the last one to climb. haha. Wally is really a tall guy, he looked so big in that rock wall, he just moved once, he could across many area, it seemed so easy to him to climb to the top.....oh...but he has another difficulty, his hands are too big and fingures are too long to hold the stone very well.....that's really difficult for my Afircan friends, i think maybe this rock wall was designed for Asians.....sorry for them.

Ooooh....its my turn....so afriad! Well, it was not so difficult as I imaged when I climbed, I didn't feel tireness at all, but....what bothered me was the height! I had strenght to keep climbing on, but...when I saw the height I started screaming and trembled.....so I decided to come down....if I could conqure the fear of height in my heart maybe I could also reach the top. After the rock climbing, we had some topics to share...what did we learn from this activity. Team works, conqure our fears....etc.

Its lunch time! where to eat....difficult thing, becos i know they will say anything is ok. ha. thank God that we had good meal together. Yunusa asked me why taiwan people like soup and why we use chopsitcks, well....that's our culture and tradition. I gave him stupid answer: Taiwanes like soup as Africans like football. hahaha.

Afternoon, we had Experience Activity(?)體驗活動 It was activities all about TRUST. the first activity we have to stand on the floor, then chair or table then to lie down, we have to trust our team members will hold us well.
In this activity I was not afraid at all, becos our memebers, Wally, Yunusa and Benjamin were strong men. haha. they are trustworth.
But its kind of challenging for Wally and Ben i think, becos they are very tall, they would be worried that others couldn't hold them well.
But that's just all about TRUST, trust yourself, trust others, and trust God.
Lesley tired a challenging thing, she asked Wally to stand on the table, my God, that must up to 300 cm. and she asked a different team to catch him when he lied down.
Wally then shared that he was worried for others than for himself, he thought maybe others will get hurt becos he's heavy. He is just a considerable guy.
The second activity was that one selected person should put a cover over his/her eyes not to see the road. he/she had to listen to the direction from the team members to walk to the destination, at the same time, there were obstacles on the road, and noisy from other teams. I was selected, in the beginning, I couldn't hear the voice of my team members, I only heard a lot of noisy.....I didn't know where to go, finally, I heard a familar voice ...i didn't know who, but I knew its one of my African friends, not only the voice I recognized, also the smelling, the frangrace I recognized its my team member. Finally I got to the destination.
Its just the same in spiritual life. There is a destination for us to reach, but all the way are many obstacles and noisy from people or from Satan. The important thing is that we have to listen to the right voice which is the voice of God. We are His sheep, He is our Shepherd, we recognize His loving voice, but, we have to PAY ATTENTION TO HIS VOICE, and willing to obey, otherwise we will fall down or go astray.
(Ben was selected too, it was so easy for him cos his friend spoke him with their own language, haha, no one can distract him!)

Finally we invited Yunusa to share with us about his feeling about today's activities. He spoke good chinese which impressd all friends. I was so touched when he said that he really enjoyed the time today and it was his first time to have activity with a group since he came to Tiawan for 1 and half year. I'm so thankful to GOD for this chance that they can join and enjoy. Hope there were more chances for them to join and enjoy during the time they study in Taiwan.

On the way to the bus station, Wally said it is good to have such a group to meet together, he is smart I think he knows why I want to invite him to join with us. Its difficult to know each other only with 2 people themsevles together. It is a good chace to know each other through group activities. He knows the reasons why I said 'wait', what I can do is not only "wait", waiting, is a process, throught this process God wants us to learn many things. The result will be better than we decide now. While waiting, my part is to keep praying, for his life, and also my life, and pray to know the will of God. another part I can do is to make chances to know each other more. Thank God for all those chances. I believe God has the perfect plan.