Sunday, March 28, 2004
The past few days have been kind of hectic, but here's a day by day play by play:
Thursday: I went with some members of the Philippine mission trip for an appointment to pick up the medical supplies that Kaiser Permanente had donated to us for the trip. We were expecting just a few boxes or so of just bandages, gloves, etc. However, there were eighteen pallets of stuff ranging from said bandages to crutches to syringes to x-ray film to many others. We were free to take from those supplies whatever we needed. There were some problems with the paperwork so we had to wait until next week to pick them up.
Anyway, I was driving home from small group bible study that night when I noticed what looked like an extra large windshield washer nozzle on my hood. It was actually a snail crawling across the surface of my car. It's amazing how long a snail can hold on while being battered by cold winds travelling at freeway speeds. The longest this snail persevered was for about 20 miles, after which it suddenly detached and just went splat across my windshield.
Friday: Club J -- It was fun. My friend Mike did a great job organizing it. I helped man the snack bar for a little bit. "Everything for a dollar each!" There were a lot of people from the college group at Saddleback Church. I had to leave at 10:30 though, much too early for a club. I had to wake up by 5:00 am the next day.
Saturday: So I had to wake up really early. It's because a few of us went up to Visalia, and I was driving. We attended a memorial service for one of the missionaries that helped start the Philippine trip every year. I did not know much about him except that he had spoken at our church once before and that he loved serving with the Filipinos. I did learn a lot of things from the eulogies that were said that day. It's awesome to be remembered by family and friends as a godly man with such a great heart for missions. Makes me think on whether someday I would be remembered that way. He had mentioned that they didn't really want any flowers or cards or anything like that. He had requested that if anyone wanted to do something to help, they should help support the Philippine mission trip instead.
I was so tired on the way home that I was told that my driving was starting to become erratic. I don't think I fell asleep, but I was probably starting to space out. Those endless white lines on a straight road are very hypnotic. I ended up letting King drive the rest of the way before we all got into an accident.
Sunday: After church, I was helping sort out the medicine that we'll be bring with us to the Philippines. Did you know that Sinutab is a controlled substance in the Philippines and maybe in other countries as well? It's probably because of the pseudoephedrine that's present in Sinutab, Sudafed, and many other cold medication. They probably don't want it ending up as a key ingredient in a meth lab somewhere.
Thursday: I went with some members of the Philippine mission trip for an appointment to pick up the medical supplies that Kaiser Permanente had donated to us for the trip. We were expecting just a few boxes or so of just bandages, gloves, etc. However, there were eighteen pallets of stuff ranging from said bandages to crutches to syringes to x-ray film to many others. We were free to take from those supplies whatever we needed. There were some problems with the paperwork so we had to wait until next week to pick them up.
Anyway, I was driving home from small group bible study that night when I noticed what looked like an extra large windshield washer nozzle on my hood. It was actually a snail crawling across the surface of my car. It's amazing how long a snail can hold on while being battered by cold winds travelling at freeway speeds. The longest this snail persevered was for about 20 miles, after which it suddenly detached and just went splat across my windshield.
Friday: Club J -- It was fun. My friend Mike did a great job organizing it. I helped man the snack bar for a little bit. "Everything for a dollar each!" There were a lot of people from the college group at Saddleback Church. I had to leave at 10:30 though, much too early for a club. I had to wake up by 5:00 am the next day.
Saturday: So I had to wake up really early. It's because a few of us went up to Visalia, and I was driving. We attended a memorial service for one of the missionaries that helped start the Philippine trip every year. I did not know much about him except that he had spoken at our church once before and that he loved serving with the Filipinos. I did learn a lot of things from the eulogies that were said that day. It's awesome to be remembered by family and friends as a godly man with such a great heart for missions. Makes me think on whether someday I would be remembered that way. He had mentioned that they didn't really want any flowers or cards or anything like that. He had requested that if anyone wanted to do something to help, they should help support the Philippine mission trip instead.
I was so tired on the way home that I was told that my driving was starting to become erratic. I don't think I fell asleep, but I was probably starting to space out. Those endless white lines on a straight road are very hypnotic. I ended up letting King drive the rest of the way before we all got into an accident.
Sunday: After church, I was helping sort out the medicine that we'll be bring with us to the Philippines. Did you know that Sinutab is a controlled substance in the Philippines and maybe in other countries as well? It's probably because of the pseudoephedrine that's present in Sinutab, Sudafed, and many other cold medication. They probably don't want it ending up as a key ingredient in a meth lab somewhere.
