3rd Philippine-wide Youth Congress in MVC

I took a 1 week leave to go to MVC and attend the 3rd Philippines-wide Youth Congress. Went first to Iligan my hometown during the weekend to see my fellow small group leaders, Masterguides and MAS AMiCUS peeps and Physics Family in MSU-IIT. Never met a fellow small group leader, met only a few MGs, saw new faces in MAS, very few young people in the church i met. It was because the MAS AMiCUS held an NMC-wide Convention during that week in Bukidnon. Shared laughs with my fellow P6 in MSU-IIT, look around the city once more and im ready to go to MVC the next day. Hailed a taxi to take us to the Bus station. the driver said hes from CDO and hes going backdrive. So rather than 120 each in the bus we opted to 450 taxi to CDO for the 4 of us.my parents and my sister. Our eldest sis didnt go with us. midway to CDO, we talked about going to MVC and the driver asked if we were SDA and he admitted he was also. but when he got married to a non-SDA he turned his back and started smoking and drinking. we encouraged him to come back to the church and he promised he will bring his family to the church soon. He then proposed that he sends us to MVC for only 1,500 instead of 2000. I thought of the hassles on bus transfers and the dust in the trip to MVC roads so we agreed. It only took us 3.5 hours from Iligan to MVC aboard Toyota Altis. Very nice trip but mom threw up during the trip. My friends told me they were bathed with dust during their trip aboard the public jeeps going up to MVC. We pitched our tents in the front yard of my cousin’s house in the korean village. We put our things in the tents and slept in the house of Julius Soriano, husband of my cousin. I met for the first time my very cute niece named Ading, its inday in Ilokano.jakamawatan. Then the house next door stayed Pastor Locop and Capitol Kids and the Rosario hgts delegates. I was assigned to furnished the CPUC youth report on Wed night. So vivitz and I with Eden worked all afternoon until midnight and morning til afternoon the next day to finished it in time. Me using the Sony Vegas 8 and vivitz using the Adobe Photoshop for the templates. It was a good tandem of our skills. on the Morning Worship of Wednesday, i rendered guitar solo, "Nothing is impossible" and "He". Dad also gave a guitar solo during the dawn worship at 4:30 am and during the morning devotional at 7am. after that we went back to finishing the report for the evening and as a break ate grace and I went around looking for acquaintances and sell them Dad’s 3rd guitar solo album entitled: "’Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus" with 12 songs. we were able to sell about 35 copies of the cds. The money weve collected was used for our meals. There were sprung up many food courts in front of the church. I met many of my good old friends there. I was called by Bro John Kalaw informing me that i was assigned as Archiving records chairman. so we met and talked about keeping the roceords of the sports events and so on. Sometimes i can borrow the motorbikes for the staff to do my duty, and i borrow motorbike from my cousin to sell our guitar CDs and i borrow motorbike from Pastor locop once. I met the Assoc World Youth Dir Elder Missah and he gave me his business card. i told him a already submitted 2 songs and he responded that he saw my name as author. The World Youth Director Elder Muganda and World Pathfinder Director Elder Tejel were there in the ante-room with us and they said to each other that the translator can make or break their presentations because their sermons were translated to cebuano. The wed evening came when the CPUC will sponsor the program. We ate supper at midnight that night with pastor locop, dalis, joniruth and eden. Thu morning, it was my first time to attend a lecture, i was texted by adilyn that there is a lecture about pathfindering in the diamond hall so i went there and found pastor Kaleb as the lecturer, asked out some questions and to the church to find lectures about Pathfindering by Pastor Tejel and youth by Pastor Muganda. Went to eat Durian Ice cream in ernie’s place. Ellen left her purse with me and inside were her celphone and wallet on thu evening and she got it back on saturday afternoon. On Fri night, we got ading and kukort to come with us. and then saturday morning, ading went with us again but she cried so loud that i can be suspected as kidnapper, she was yelling the name of her daddy so i called him and we went home because there was no more space in the church. I was not able to sit inside the church ever since the start. We went home and watch the service via the hope channel. I met Arnold on the way back to church and his car was Ford Ranger. we went in the ante room and he came out to meet his brother. Then saturday afternoon we had Masterguide Investiture, I left my formal shoes in Iligan so i went to kerwin to borrow but his shoes were very big for me so i was lucky Dodong has one fit for me.so we went to meet other MGs from Luzon and Mindanao. Only 2 of us were uniformed as MG from the central philippines and both of us came from mindanao. We stood inside the church in attention for maybe an hour or more because my legs were hurt and i couldnt walk well after standing for so long. After the investiture, Picture taking was totally a disorder. I stood there on the stage, sometimes some youth asked to be pictured with me whiach i always granted then i got to met a fine lady from laguna in luzon and i asked her if she has an email, well thats a technique guys to get her number. ok please write you email here and pls include also your number.thats the secret line. just include you number. and well she didnt so i was left with only her email address and now we are already friendster. I want to have a picture with the two world directors so i waited until they will walk out from the stage and i followed them to the front of the church where my friend Pastor Jobbie was with them and i caught them cornered in one corner so i actually have a shot with them. Then Jennifer came to our tent with her sister. After a chat i sent her to her tent and talked for a while. then i went back to our tent passed by the social gathering under the pines by Pastor Patalinghug then slept almost midnight. Sunday morning came and we packed our things and get on the Rural Transit Bus bound for CDO boarded by Cebu delegates and Kuyogates. The bus went to Valencia Sanitarium to get Pastor Francisco being admitted there for a high blood pressure. then we stopped over small vendors of brooms labeled Baguio City but made in valencia. then the bus went to SPUC and break for soya milk drinks then proceeded to NMC at 12 lunchtime. we then went to Gaisano for lunch and then sent my parents to the jeep going to bulua terminal. then we went to play table tennis for 1.5 hours with terso and ate grace. then met ladel and we went back to NMC. played basketball with the youth from CLC and played badminton and asked for galloons of water from a nice neighbor there. took a 2 minute bath then went to the pier at 8pm. our boat will still be leaving at 11 pm we were told. Bad Trans Asia. we were two groups in the sun/moon deck playing games with pastor eyas. the boat left the pier at 12 midnight. we arrived in cebu at 1pm the next day. We were given free meal as breakfast. rice and sardines. too bad. the docking maneuver of the boat was bad. it tried 3 times before succeeding in the docking procedure which left many very angry with the captain. and it delayed our getting down for 1 hour more. anyway, we arrived safely in cebu.too late to go to work so i called in and informed i will report the next day. we bid goodbye to each other and went home carrying the memories from the youth congress which will remain immortalized in our conciousness.