July thus far

So...busy life as usual...I'll try to keep it brief. I have been to 3 weddings so far, I went to Federal Way (south of Seattle) to visit my brother for a week...while I was there, I got to see my parents for 2 days, meet my brother's friends/co-workers, meet up with Cheryl Roberts, meet with Yen-Ling, and randomly bump into Katrain Wong (friends from Hesperia, CSUF/Newsong, and IV), and then have been continuing to work with the Boys and Girls Club of Cypress. While in Seattle I got to see a lot of great sites! We went to the Space Needle, the Experience Rock Music Museum, the Sci-Fi Museum, the Wing Lake Museum (Asian-American History in the Seattle area), Pioneer Square (old old town Seattle), Pikes Place Market, the 1st ever Starbucks, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, an attempt to go whale watching and only barely saw 1 whale (but we got refunded and can go back), and...got to see fireworks for 4th of July at a park that felt like it was built in the middle of the forest cause it was soo pretty and full of beautiful tall green trees! :)

I am also now living in La Habra for the rest of the summer until I move out to Los Angeles...which will be sometime in late August. I am staying with my 2nd family...the Rodriguez famiy....I have known them for a few years, going back to when we met while doing Hurricane Katrina relief in Mississippi with church. They are really great and hospitable!!!

Here's a website I would like you to look at...it's titled "How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours" http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=5326508&page=1 It's pretty intense...if you are unaware of the human trafficking (modern-day slavery) going on, please read and continue to learn more and inform people about it...build awareness...this is not something that existed years ago...people are being forced into labor and sex slavery every single day in THIS country as well as other countries throughout the world. What can we do...what can we do as citizens, as Christians, as those who care about injustices to help with this situation? Prayer, giving money, and spreading awareness sometimes do not seem like enough....let's seek God to lead us to what He is calling us to do.

http://freethekids.org/index.php Here's a link to an organization in Haiti that is seeking to help child slaves...getting them out of their situations and helping them through orphanages.


*Here are some pictures:

Cheryl (the bride), Jen (bff since 2nd grade), and me

Kristyn, Byron, and me

Katrina Wong and me in Seattle at the Experience Rock Music Museum! Yeah for randomly bumping into each other...woo hoo!

Joel and me on top of the Space Needle

Happy 4th of July! :)

Prayer Requests:

-Healings and persistance through my conversations and relationship with my older brother

-Search for housing and jobs in the LA area

-Spirt-led conversations with my co-workers

-Trusting in God

-SP team...as we are making preparations for housing, jobs, moving, getting ready to go to Manilla in the Philippines, fundraising, prayer, support from families and friends....!

*Fundraising Update with Servant Partners: I'm at about $3,000....so $1,000 left to fundraise...and I know some more $$ is coming in from different people (but it is being sent back to my hometown and I won't able to retrieve it until my parents are back from their traveling...so if you did send $$ to Hesperia, sorry, but it will have to wait a bit for me to get the checks and then send them in to be processed). I have about 1 month left to finish fundraising the full $4,000...but God has been truly faithful thus far and I know He will provide enough $$ and even more....so praise God for that!