Family Vacation: US Trip 2008

4/14/08 Noel Galvez - In 1981, when I was 6 (as Boing is now also 6), my port of entry was San Francisco. I never went there again till now when we are complete. Mommy used to cry whenever we would leave the country without her other children and the breakthrough now is that it is possible. However, while Kitkat was looking outside the window of the plane, I asked her why she was sad. She said she was both happy and sad. Happy because she's going to US, but sad because she said WE'RE NOT COMPLETE. At first, I felt like it was a case of not being thankful because as for me, we were complete. But to this next generation child, being complete meant having all her cousins travelling with her. I just told her to be thankful for what God has allowed her to experience, and believe that someday, God will grant the desire of her heart, as He granted mine.

(Boing, here you asked me, "Are we in heaven"?)

Kit and Boing, the day before we left for the US, we attended service at Victory. Ptr. Paolo mentioned that when David saw Goliath, he didn't see a big problem... he thought of Goliath as a target too big to miss. He believed that the same God who protected him from the lion and the bear would be the same God who would help him.

Kids, we are in the same situation. Today may be the lowest point in our lives and you don't know anything about it. However, the same God who rescued us from the problems of the past is the same God who answered our prayer in April of 2007 at Me and My Dad Camp when a pastor (probably Ptr. Jake Duque) told us to believe that God wants our children to see places. God allowed us to have our Passports renewed in just 5 days (April 4), our VISAs were given on April 11 (10 years, multiple entry), and now, we are in San Francisco. While praying for the people we left in Manila, your Tita Marvs sent a text message saying that your Tito/Ninong Obet got a breakthrough with Alaska. The same God has provided for everything that we and the people back home will need! God is good!

So when the time comes when you think you have a big problem, go back to this page and remember how God made something impossible... possible.

Here are some of the pictures taken today:
Boing, when your mom saw a pilot, she said, "Look, Boing, there's the pilot". You saw a tall man in blue uniform wearing a hat.
Boing: "Is that a guard?"
Mom: "No, he's a pilot."
Dad: "A pilot is one who drives airplanes."
Boing: "That guard drives airplanes?"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Kitkat, you were patiently waiting for our last box to arrive. I remembered myself waiting for Dy and Mommy Helen's baggages when we used to travel to the US.