Sunday June 6, 2010

Breakfast was at 7:30 AM Sunday morning. Yes it was only 30 minutes earlier than usual, but it felt like hours. The church we were attending was Living Water Chinese Baptist Church in a suburb type area. We were in Vancouver somewhere but I really have no idea where.
We attended the English church service downstairs while a Chinese service was taking place directly above us at the same time. The English service was directed obviously towards their English speaking congregation. This congregation was made mostly up by the children of the people in the Chinese service.
After the service, we hung around for a while talking with the people and playing ping pong. Laura, Liesl, Marisol, Christina, Callie, Brett, and I soon headed up the street and uphill to the business part of town that offered places for lunch.
We were all very indecisive but eventually settled on a Pho Vietnamese Restaurant. Marisol and Callie went across the street to McDonald’s and headed elsewhere after eating. Pho is a type of Vietnamese noodle soup with meat and who knows what else in it. It was delicious, but difficult to eat with chopsticks.
After eating we walked down the street to a 7-Eleven so Laura, Liesl, and Christina could buy coffee. I found more of the chocolate candy called Bueno and bought some for my family. I was introduced to it first in Australia five years ago and hadn’t found it since. I was excited to find it once again.
We caught bus 16 for our trip home, the same bus we took to get to the church. However, we missed our stop and ended up getting off at a different station. Instead of a 20 minute bus ride, it turned into at least an hour. We eventually made it back to PLBC and in time for our debriefing at 6 PM with Kelly. He and Jeanne gave all of us a group picture taken at Burnaby Mountain Park and a 2010 Vancouver Olympic flag.
After debriefing was finished, a group of us gathered to pray for Liesl and her job in Australia. We then prayed for Sarah, her father, and her up-coming mission trip to Ireland. It’s a wonderful thing knowing that we can all band together to support our sisters in Christ through prayer as they go out of serve.
When we finished praying, a large number of us headed down a few blocks to the Time Out convenience store. Some hadn’t had supper and were very hungry. They ordered pizzas while others bought candy, slushies, or ice cream. When we returned to PLBC, we swapped pictures of our trip and hung out until 1 AM on our last night in Canada. It was hard to believe our trip was practically over.