Shine as the Nations Collide with YOUR Story

Last night was beautifully put together. God is awesome and had a wonderful night standing full inside the Abbotsford Sports & Entertainment centre. He was there, I felt Him in the room, I asked Him to be there, and show Himself. And what did He do? He changed peoples lives.
With my throat sore and my ears all fuzzy, I come home from one of the best memories of my entire life. Hillsong United worship night.
It was so overpowering, it was amazing. Like I'm lost for words to describe this experience. Couldn't believe that I got to share that concert with my friends and family.
There was a song that wept to. 'With Everything', God really showed him here. There was a part where it went silent, but there was an on going voice that started everyone singing. It wasn't the band, or anyone else, but my friend. I don't know why, but it made me weep. Thanks friend.
He made everyone start singing, it was outstanding.
God was known here. He was.
But there was a part where Joel (Hillsong) was saying that Worship isn't about the lights, and words and singing. But its about God, and what we do for him. He wanted that night to be a worship night. And it was, we learned a lot.
There is a quote/interview with Joel that talks a bit about the song, 'Aftermath':

“Normally ‘aftermath’ has a negative, even traumatic, connotation,” Houston says. “At the same time, when I look at the Crucifixion as an event, it paints an extraordinarily negative and horrific picture. But the aftermath of the Cross is hope for all mankind. It’s grace, freedom, peace, life and everything that is good about God. I absolutely love that picture.”

That is basically what he said last night.
And after the concert was over, sadly, Joel said a prayer out to all of us.

I couldn't believe the night, I was speechless and I'm pretty sure my friends were too. Thank-you Jesus for that amazing evening. I won't forget what You've done, and I will never be ashamed of Your name. We will be Your church God. We will, we promised by going to this concert. All the things that Joel and the team said, has stuck to us. There are things that are hard to say, but You know our hearts and You know us. Thank-you Jesus, you're wonderful, and I'll do everything for You, just guide me and I'll follow you.

Amen.

Every Corner has a Story

Downtown is my favorite place to be. All the hype and excitement is just so thrilling, I just love it. I took Yaisa downtown for a birthday day.

First we had to wait for the bus, then we took the skytrain down and rode it backwards. That was fun, we chatted and caught up with each other. After we got there we went shopping, in the rain, at Urban Outfitters, American Apparal, Chapters and True Value Vintage. We bought a lomography camera, a paper camera that takes real photos, a picture book, a few sweaters and a pair of converse. Whatta day.

We even got lost a few times, trying to find streets and stores. But thats how Yaisa and I work, thats how we have our adventures.

We even had our chance of going out for dinner. And boy was it lovely. Moxies, is a great restaurant. We had a fabulous view of Earls, seeing as it was just across the street. There was even a number 5 bus floating around every now and then. Probably was about 10 or so circling around. Anyways, dinner was great, and now we wanted tea. Yaisa treated this time for starbs. Oh man, can`t wait for the next time we go downtown.

Vancouver, we Love you!

  

BAZINGA

Jesus, we Love You too!

Late walks and Men with Weapons.

Tonight I witnessed 11 cars after a crazy day of work.
Awesome.
My friends met up with me, and joked around, gave me a great time at work.
How Fun.
In other words gave me a rough time, asking questions here and there.
But that's what friends are for.
I got a ride home with Peter Pan and somehow ended up at Paula's house.
A little magic happened, and POOF I was in Yaisa's pressence. After she just finished talking about me.
How amazing is that.
I feel like family already.
Later when everyone went to sleep, Paula and I wanted food.
I phoned my dad for him to bring over chips... and he did, believe it or not!
But something was missing.
I wanted to blog and play scrabble.
But in order for that to happen for me, I would need my laptop.
So that was pointless of my dad to drop off food, when really I could've walked over there myself with Paula. And we did in the latest of night.
How silly of us. Not fast thinkers.
I counted 11 cars, there and back.
Two best --worst-- parts of all, there was two creepy men. One in a car that drove by and saw us walking. And two, one that walked into the forest (by Paula's house) and back out with a weapon (or what looked like a weapon) aka a log.
Creepy.
I kept looking back to see where he was going, and he went POOF.
It was like magic, but bad magic. Like Dark wizardry, stuff He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (aka Voldemort) uses.
Creepy.
Back to real life, Paula and I played scrabble together while watching Jersey Shore. Why, because she wanted to. I had no choice.
But don't you worry, I'm not sucked into it... I'm not.

B
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But really I'm not.

Headlights on Dark Roads

Oh man, tonight was insane. But God was good and kept me safe.
Why? I guessed right.. because my day was insane.

First it started off great, going to church for the first time by myself. Driving and attending. But I soon met up with Andy and Steph (Brother and soon to be sister-in-law), and it was a great service. I even got to see all my friends afterwards, which I find, is one of the greatest parts of my sundays. :)
Sadly I couldn't stay for both services, I had to go to work right afterwards. Sigh.
So I asked my shift leader if I could hop into drive thru, because I haven't been in there for awhile and I thought I might as well get used to it. But man was I wrong. Sunday was a bad day to choose to be in drive thru. Sheesh, I was ready to drop my head set and book it. So stressfull. Never again will I ask, unless if they ask me (obvs). But today was great, my co-workers were able to help me through the insane times. Thank God.
Sooner or later, it came to the end of my shift. And a group of my friends came to see me at the end trails of my shift. It was pretty awesome, we decided to go shopping for socks at walmart.... and chips.... and surf through the toy isles. Fun stuff, I wanted to buy games, but I couldn't I was money less. Whoopie.

For the last bit of my day, I'll just summerise:
-Paul cut me off mulitiple times, putting Nicky and myself in danger
-Went to Paula's to play Toy Story Uno
-The game just went on and on... non stop
-Paula and Nicky decided to cheat and make me lose, by having the same colour
-Paula and I changed Nicky's password on her phone
-Nicky and I woke up Yaisa
-Paul wanted Paula and I to redue his dancing video; and we did, with Nicky's help
-Drank tea (glitter and gold; sparkly tea)

Bam!

Oh and PS,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YAISA. :)

Bazinga!

It's my Party and I'll Cry if I want to.

So last night I had my party. My 20th party. Not like I had twenty of them, but I guess you could say that I turned 20.
But the whole night was so eventful. There was colourful food, and decorations. I for sure spoiled my friends that evening.
I couldn't believe it, no matter what my plans were, it didn't really go as planned. So much for the dance party... and the strobe lights... and the glow sticks...
But everyone enjoyed themselves, and that's all that really matters.

Cake was interesting. I had to put my gaurd down, not remembering that Paula is the cake master.

She found out a way... but don't you forget. I got her back, and I got her good. Well 'good' in my terms.

Overall I had a blast. Didn't do much, but sit, chill, and talk. We tried to play games, and have a dance... but that didn't go over too well. Oh well.

Ugly Sweater Sisters? I think so!

Ugly Sweater PA buddies? I think so!

Ugly Sweater Buddy Buddies? Of course!

It sure was a great ugly party though.
And I love my friends.
I have no reason not to. :)

BAZINGA. Love you guys. And thanks for that awesome memory!
"We will be friends forever!"

Let your Colours Burst

Oh the adventures of my life. They just tend to get better and better everyday.

Yesturday, Paula came with me to pick up party supplies at a special store. But first off we had to do a few errands before we started anything. There was gas that needed to be put inside the car and I had to drop off a cheque into my mom's bank.
And on top of that, since it was dark, I had no clue where I was going (even if I knew that I was in Guildford). . After I got the cheque into the bank, I had to find out a way into that gas station. I circled around the mall and intersections until I found a way. Thankfully we made it on time. I'm pretty sure both of us didn't want to be trapped in Guildford without gas.
Now that we gave "topanga" a nice drink from the gas station, I took the long, long, long way around to get to our special store. Paula thought that it would be an awesome idea to phone her friend, at the wrong time, and it wasn't related to the situation we were having then. So we had a little of an adventure, ending up were we last started... oh it was grand, you missed out.
Eventually, we made it there. We were hoping, since we went through all that trouble, that it wasn't closed. Imagine that if it would've been, I probably would've been crying.

Our list is complete and last but not least we had to create our food menu. With Smartfood in hand and a cup of tea in the other, we decided to visit our friend, Costco.com. Not realizing that we should've typed .CA instead... Since we live in canada and all, and we wouldn't have had time to visit the states anytime soon.
Oh man, yesterday was probably one of the best Mondays that I've had in a long time. And that's saying something.

"Topanga" thanks for staying strong my friend. PS, that's the name of our family car... our black focus. Just so you know, and not feel left out. (Paula, Nicky and Yaisa agreed to keep it as Topanga).

And again we have to thank God for everything. Keeping us safe, having fun and most importantly letting the Barrientos accept me into the "family".