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| I arrived at ft. stewart, GA my duty station at 530am this morning. Right now I'm just hanging out w/ my friend Vaiay in North Carolina. Thank you everybody for your support! | | |
| Work was a little busy this week. Today I had a lot of post-deployment briefings: dealing w/ relationships in marriages, emotional situations of soldiers and families, finance info, legal info, recreational information, US customs inspection, medical info, driving safety, etc. It lasts like 7 hours w/ breaks in between but they were long and many of them were boring and repetitive. And we will be going through them again when we get back to our base. I am just glad I will be getting out of the army soon so I don't have to face anymore of that. Yesterday chaplain preached on our life as a journey. The first passage he gave us was 2nd Kings 6: 15-17 and it was about how God opened up the eyes of the servant so he can see things in how God see things. In saying that, he told us that as people we are stuck in our own mind whenever we have problems. This is the time where we have to ask God: "What are you doing?" There is a reason why he is doing that and we have to pray and ask Him what He is trying to do in our lives. We need to step back and learn to see things in God's perspective. Another scripture reading was Matthew 11: 28-30 where Jesus tells us that His yoke is easy and His burden is light. He gave us an example of a trained ox would use a yoke that carry heavier load while it is walking along side with an untrained ox that would use a yoke that carry lighter load. The trained ox is God and untrained ox is us. We taking the yoke from Jesus is basically taking the teachings from Him. The chaplain tells us that we can not manage God, but we can only manage ourselves. We can't expect God to be a certain way but we must shape ourselves to be like Him. In closing he read us Matthew 28: 16-20 which is the great commission that commands us to go out there and make disciples. That is basically the journey of life: to make disciples. | | |
| How's everybody? Doing good over here and of course very soon I will be home. =D Just working the day shift from 7am to 3pm this week. It's not too busy, only a few patients. We had a karaoke and costume night here in the recreational center on Halloween night. I sang In The End , Beverly Hills, and Wake Me Up When September Ends. I had a lot of fun and it was awesome! When I was singing In the end, I was pointing at the audience, showing my emotions, walking back and forth, and jumped in the air! hehe I'm not shy when it comes to karaoke even in front of strangers cuz I've done it many times in front of my friends. I get so into it that I forget the audience haha. They also had a costume contest but I didn't dress up plus there's really no costumes out here anyways. One soldier dressed up as an Iraqi man hehe. Yesterday, the chaplain preached on God. The story is in John 9: 1-5 about the blind man. He starts off by stating that many of us ask is God really good if there are so much torment and evil in our lives and/or in this world. We always want to find somebody to blame for the problems for this world. He told us that not everything evil happened is a judgment of God but some of them definitely are. The chaplain shared with us the story of Josiah and the prostitute. That God wants Josiah to marry the prostitute regardless of she has done. When Adam and Eve turned away from God, they have "betrayed" God. In the same way God wants to get us back by using every way possible regardless of what we have done. And those ways include the bad happenings in this world. I thought that was an interesting perspective and I know it's hard for all of us to accept. But I think this is where faith plays a part in our lives. We have to trust Him "no matter" what happens. | | |
| I got to my new base, Scania, on the 15th. It's awesome: BRAND-NEW 2-men room trailer with your own closet, drawer, linen, sheets, etc. Recreational center, one-day turn around laundry, gym, military department store, coffee shop, huge internet and phone center, etc. No more having to poop in a bag, burn poop and trash. There is an actual toilet porcleain seat you can sit on and a plumbing system. There are civilian workers who take out the trash! I'm just very thankful and appreciative of this new place. They tell us that we should be home by Dec 18th. I hope that's true but it really sounds too good to be true haha. So that means we only have 2 more months to go until we go home! HOOAH! | | |
| How are you xangers doing? haha yea I just made that up Well nothing new over here. I wish they have chapel services out here in the patrol base plus I will be able to update the sermon here. It's still hot but I think it will cool down by the end of this month or the beginning of Oct. Pretty much the same routine everyday and that is sitting inside the aid station and doing my class. We should be going home in January but I hope that it can be earlier. So it's less than 4 months. The election is coming up but I will not be voting. I dislike politics because I think it's all talk and no action. Talk is cheap and actions speak louder than words! Plus I like neither Obama nor McCain. I think politicians like most people just care about themselves. The ones that actually care about people and want to make a difference are not running but should be. We will see what happens when our new president is elected. | | |
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