There's so much to talk about. So much that occurred within this weekend that I don't know where to begin. I thought that army life should become more relaxed as my ORD date approaches but it seems that isn't the case. Of course there are certain privilege of being one of the ORD personnel but its seems that because the other 3 'specs' (specialists) in my batch are clearing their off-days earlier, I end up having to do the work in the company line.

But enough complaining, let me summarise my weekend. I went back to camp on Friday night after a sumptuous meal with the cell at the 85 food center. I had COS duty on Saturday so I decided to book in the night before. Saturday turned out to be my unit's mobilisation day so it was busy busy / no time to rest. Felt a headache coming on in the afternoon but it got better after I popped a couple of aspirin. Planned to watch the 3rd place play-off between germany and portugal but I couldn't wake up. Was awoken by Papa's SMS from China informing me that Germany had won. Fell back asleep and was awoken at about 6:10am by a call from the COS from the other company. I had totally forgotten about Flag Raising which was supposed to be at 6am.

Left camp around 9am and headed to church where I joined Lynette for prayer. Well, it wasn't much prayer today rather than a discussion about what we're supposed to pray for. Well... My stand is, if there isn't anything specific given by God to pray for, then just pray whats in your heart. And if thats done already, then just speak to God in tongues. I remember Lynette saying to me before, "...many of God's things will come to pass (because of your effort to pray those 15 minutes)"
Worship was nice today. I really liked the music. I could hear people like Gerald and Sam really worshipping with their instruments. I'm sure the rest were doing so too but these 2 really stood out for me. And it covered everything else... there were mistakes but they didn't distract as much. Pastor's sermon was quite Youth centred. It was quite cute as he gave examples of people serving as young as 12 years old. Which was, to me, a way of saying, "Why are you, 16-25 year olds doing sitting around on your bums?!?"

Of course the new 3Gs were a refreshing change from the Go, Grow, Glow of XS...

Goal - Grounded - Groomed

The altar call was for those considering serving full time. And honestly, I feel that it didn't apply to me because I wouldn't consider doing such a thing. UNLESS God calls me... and for now, the call is to study at RBTC and not to go full time. To me, there is a difference. So I only went up because there was a general call for a blessing. I think there were 4 people who came up to pray for me.
There was Gabriel... with his call for me to sweep aside the distractions in my life. Stanley was praying for me behind me at this time.
Then came Leon. He said something about me being very clear about my purpose and direction. About me and my family having a collective purpose for God. Basically an encouragement to strive on and that I'm doing the right thing I guess.
Pastor came last and gave the similar prophecy about having the anointing to teach. About being able to speak in front of lots of people.
Generally it was an encouragement and nudge in the right direction by God.