Hi, Hi, Hi!!! We are back from our Niagara Fall! It was a GREAT fun trip! I already miss everyone in my gang! Our amazing adventure was from 27th, May to 30th, May in Buffalo, NY. We had 14 people in total. One of our sweetheart intern, Christina, and me led a car with two Chinese students, so our car is a Chinese car (so to speak) filled with music! On our way, we relived Titanic, Ghost, the Sound of Music… and reviewed all classic Chinese and English songs since 1950s! More than that, we shared and discussed our diversities in politics, ethnicity, linguistics, food culture, environment, and so on. We really became very close friends through this trip. On our way back, we even did the “five love language test” to get to know each other’s love expression language! I’m very grateful for each of our team people that God brought to my life!! They are so adorable!
As we arrived in Buffalo, we met our host family. They are all very sweet and joyful people. My host family are super famous!! Their granddaughter was born in a snowstorm, and God made her birth to be a miracle! So CNN came and interviewed their daughter and son-in-law, and then their quote “it’s not odds, it’s God” went viral. Sadly, the first day, our host parents just put their dog into sleep and they really had a tough long day. But luckily, on Sunday, we celebrated their 42th anniversary together! The host dad is an incredible carpenter. He made all the gorgeous tree house, slides, swings, clocks, musical boxes, etc. And before we went to the Huge Niagara Fall, our host parents took us to taste a mini fall with a watermill near their house and bought us the best ice cream in the town! They also took us to their church, where they held their wedding ceremony, with their grandma, who is in her nineties and still so lovely and pretty! They are all dramatically peaceful and joyful christians! We learnt all their love stories in their families and their ministry stories in Uganda. Their faithful lives really touched and impacted my spiritual life! I feel so blessed to spend such a quality time with them together!!!
Another highlight was the Buffalo International Conference called “Life’s Ultimate Destiny”, held by Amherst Baptist Church. They had many workshops. I really like the second one I went called “The main story of Bible.” The speaker threaded the whole bible stories as one big story, which is Jesus salvation story. I really liked his clear way to express God’s grace and salvation systematically in the whole Bible.
In the afternoon, we went to the Water Fall! The Fall was so splendid and poured upon us from heaven like the Holy Spirit. We are impressed by the beauty nature of God and witnessed the powerful strength conveyed by God’s creation. We saw four rainbows during our trip! It reminded me after the big flood, God told Abraham that “this is the sign of the covenant for all generations to come. I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” Thanks for God’s grace and His eternal faithfulness!!
At the end, the conference shared the students’ testimony and we played our talent show. We had a Chinese student performed a beautiful singing solo, a drummer star, one of our leader, Geroge, played an exciting drum solo, and the whole group sang the song of “how great is our God” together in four different languages: English, Hindi, Thai and Chinese. On Monday, we took a boat ride to go into the waterfall and experienced its spectacularity again. After we drove back, we had our last dinner together. This trip is a big treasure of my life! I got fully relaxed and renewed by the precious friendships and the beautiful views!!
