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I believe that for someone to be successful in life, one need not only have to ace in their academics but also through experiences and hard work in life.
With this thinking in my head, I've made one of the biggest choice this year to spend a week of holiday to join this Student Literature Evangelist camp. You see different generations in this earth really brings a big impact. Those days when our parents have to study in the morning and help their parents work in the afternoon isn't much experience by us nowadays. That makes us people don't know the process of earning a penny, all we practically have to do is to just ask from our parents and we would get what we need in a percentage of 50% (not included stuffs that is useless or too over budget). But yeah what our parents want us to do is to just study hard and they would supply us everything.
I'm really thinking hard on what has happened to this world. Why that 50 years of differences bring such big differences. Why. How would us children appreciate our parents hard work if we hadn't go through what they are going through ? We can practically buy stuffs which actually costs by hundreds or even thousands without even thinking twice and the next thing we do to post in our public network about how much we thank our parents and call it the best gift ever received and the best yet memorable day ever in life. Seriously this is what that is happening around us. This may be how we think or I could say how most of us think.
Yes, our parents did promised us upon gifting us a certain thing if we study hard. But did our parents owe us anything. I would say no. How many people out there actually study hard because of our future, or we actually work hard because of that present our parents promised us ? This is really hard to tell ehh ?
Student LE really taught me lots. And I would never ever regret being a part of it, probably the best experience in 2015 or even my high school life. This is the type of camp that teaches us so many things practically but not only theoretically. Knocking the doors, houses by houses, we would get rejected or even scolded. However, we have to hold back our tears and to also say thank you. Can you imagine that ? We are all human beings, by us carrying books that load around 1 kg plus on our hands and more loads in our bag, yet we get rejected houses to houses, shops to shops, it is really sad.
As what one of the leader said, those Student LEs are just like our children, I feel like a dad to them, each time when I see them getting rejected I can see through their heart, how sad they feel, I can see how the pace of their footsteps get slower, how they get lesser and lesser energetic, demotivated each time being turned down. I really want to stand behind them and help them sell their books and to motivate them. Why would people reject little kids like them ? But yeah to be a father, when a kid falls down, we don't rush forward to pick them up immediately, we let them to learn and stand up by themselves. That's what I want to see in them, to see them grow. The smile on their face when they succeed is priceless. Those joy we can see in them is all worth it compare to the failure earlier. That's what I want to let them learn, life is full of ups and downs. By us praying and standing firm by God's side, we would surely get what we deserve.
Those words seems to be some motivational talk but it strikes my heart, it really did. You would never know how spicy is a chilli until you taste it yourself. You never know the feeling of it without experiencing it yourself. All Student LEs really did feel touched and some of us even cried when that speech is given, we have gone through it, who knows the feelings better than us?
Working as a team brings us all together. We work not as an individual, but as a whole team of 30 over Student LEs, and most importantly, we work with the angels and the Lord almighty.
We never say anything negative unto people who didn't do well, we believe in them and we give them support and motivates them. When one group fail to excel, we prayed for them and we know how they feel. And we pray that that last hour they strike would bring a satisfied result to them. We feel their tears and sweats, their feeling of giving up, however we know that God has His planning. Because we know the moment when we walk out of that gate and start selling books, we know we are not walking alone but we are working as a team, as a family in Christ.
Our biggest motive is to spread God's words throughout the nation. We walk by area, some shop houses are actually longer than what we thought we could travel, carrying a bag of books and some on hand which is heavier than my school bag. Seems impossible ehh? But it did happen. Why work as a Student LE ? we earn as much as those part timers outside, sometimes even less. Why, the reason we continue to walk on this path is that we work for God. We don't really see much on the money, we emphasize on the people who received God's message, the words being spread out to everyone. That's all that matters to us. The moment when we enter the car and tell our leaders our results. That happiness, really indescribable. When we contact through Whatsapp on our total amount and the moment our goal is achieved. Seeing the whole team achieving it together, that joy is much more satisfying compared to us getting straight A's in exams. We know we couldn't do it by ourselves, we need the whole team's work and God's guidance. And God really did guide us, the increasing results day by day warms my heart and it actually brought all of us closer to God, knowing that He will make a way.
The confidence and determination to walk on until night time isn't easily achieved. It's not easy when it comes to the first few shops, we really did hesitate a lot. Really afraid of getting scolded. But later when we understand the power of prayers, we prayed and our confidence boost tremendously. We know we are working for God and he will send the angels to be with us. That determination brings us not unto giving up that easily. However every time we are actually looking forward to a brand new day to challenge a new goal, to let more people to know our Lord. It isn't short from 1:30 to 8:30, but still we walk together, not giving up until the end.
And every end comes with a small reward, an ice cream or a drink, a medium reward, the satisfying end result from the whole team, and finally the biggest reward, to experience God's grace.
