Living with eight guys is hard, I have learned to be patient. This is really good for me to step out of the norm, because I had problems living with my roommate in school last year and so I have learned social skills. Healing was new to me, it is the Power of God, so this trip has broadened my horizons and expanded my knowledge of the power of God.

I was really shy about talking to people and I have learned from the surveys to be more bold. The healings were also new to me. I want to share my faith with people more often.

This missions trip was different from any other tour I had been on with Vision before. Back then, we sang only at churches, nice people, a protected environment where people liked to hear us, but this year, we were out in the streets where most people don't want to hear us, and this is more like the real world so I learned more on this trip than other tours. I had been to healing conferences before, but I never witnessed it before, and seeing it showed me God's amazing power. This encouraged me, and I will be more bold in praying for people when I get back. I always prayed, "if it is your will", but now, I learned to take more authority when I pray. I need to learn to discern God's voice when I pray. I have a co-worker who has a walking problem; is God leading me to pray for him?

I really liked this trip a lot. All the other tours had some experienced people that knew what they were doing, but here we all had the same lack of experience, and it wasn't routine for anyone. We all had something to learn. Street evangelism was intimidating and hard, but it was also a blessing and humbling. We really saw the need of the lost in the streets. It is easy to get polluted by the sin in the world, and we don't notice wrongs anymore, but now I can see the difference from good and bad. Through last year, my standards in morality were going down, but now I can see God's standard and it's much higher. I want to take home everything: the spiritual sensitivity, the friendships, the experiences.

When I came back from the California tour, I started to fast from secular music, so God began working in me to show me what a higher standard of holiness meant. On this trip, I learned compassion for the lost, and I am spurred on for more evangelism. I also learned not to put God in a box, and God showed me how wrong I am with my stubbornness.

When we first got here we had a lot of freedom. We stayed out late, and I learned that with freedom comes responsibility. I started to get back earlier. Seeing Mark's humbleness was encouraging. It was good to see that someone really trusted in God no matter what. Praying for Danny, the guy who got a job, was good and really made me happy. Leaf-letting was scary and was very discouraging initially, but after a while it was better and I was more bold. I want to tell my friends about the Christ when I get back.

Made a promise with God before we came that I would do anything God wanted, but when we got here we started leaf-letting and I didn't like it at all. When I got here I was shy and didn't like talking to strangers. So I asked God to make me bolder to talk to strangers, and now I'm bolder and more forward. When I go back I want to be able to talk to strangers more.

I have a greater appreciation of full time missionaries. In the beginning I felt comfortable with what they (EEC) wanted to do, but when we were doing it, it was harder. But now these past days, it was good and started to taste the joy of doing God's work. I have to initiate the first step, then God can work through that. I want to be able to pray for my friends that are not Christian when I get home. I realized that I should also be telling my grandparents about Christ and God.

I first wanted to make sure that people were getting healed, and it was very encouraging to see that people with long term pain and problems would be healed by God. I also liked the leaf-letting and was encouraged to talk to people about God. I was open to all that was happening, and I felt we were spoiled here with the nice houses and the good food. I hope to be able to talk to strangers and others about God.

I learned how faithful God is and how He answers prayers and how He cares for us. He really opened doors for us to speak to people. I realized that I haven't really talk to my family about God and Christ, but now I feel that I can talk to them. The team was touched by Irene's kindness and gentle spirit. She was responsible to get her roommates up and to get the girls there on time.

First week of tour, I learned ground breaking and planting is really hard work so I gained new respect for missionaries. I will attend the next missions conference. I learned prompting from the Holy Spirit are not to be ignored. At Chinatown, I followed God's leading to talk to a Chinese speaking person, eventually got some Chinese speaking folks to talk to him and he eventually came to know the Lord. Yesterday at Leichester Square, I felt led to talk to a woman, who first rejected my tract, but after hearing us sing, she came back to talk to me, and I could share a tract with her and encourage her to come back to the church. I want to bring back to LA the lessons in listening to God's voice and the courage to do what He is telling me.

I learned how to deal with rejection, and about the authority given to us Christians. I am praying for the gift of healing and I would like to bring that back to LA. I want to be always ready to do God's work.

God taught me a lot in letting go and letting God do His thing rather than being in control myself. I was prideful coming on this trip, and I struggled doing the leaf-letting initially, but at the Chinatown outreach, God showed me how small I was as I met up with criticism and opposition and I had to rid myself of this pride. Then I learned to let God take control, and the surveys and leaf-letting became much better, and I even got to like it. When I get back, especially the short term trip to Mexico, I realize I need to be a servant and lead from a point of humility.

Before I came on tour, I was talking to my mom who is not a Christian, and she said the only way I will believe God is if God will heal my hip. When I came here, I saw God using Mark to heal all these people, first when we were being briefed, then later in Chinatown. I verified with those who were healed that it was real, and that gave me a whole new perspective about what God could do and my faith grew. I never liked people who go door-to-door to evangelize, so I started off not liking doing surveys, but I learned that we can touch someone with this method of evangelism too. At the last estate, we met this Greek lady and I saw how God led us to bless her. I want to bring back to LA more faith in praying for physical needs and healing. I want to pray for my mom and evangelize my parents when I get back.

Being away from my comfort zone, things like secular music, TV, video games, I now realize that I don't need it. I have learned that verse in Corinthians about not everything is beneficial for us, and these things take me away from concentrating on God. The miracle healings helped me to grow in faith. I want to take back a better Christian walk and stronger faith in God.

When we first came to London, I was distracted a lot, but looking back, I see how much I learned - the healing meetings, rejection by complete strangers, the prophetic words spoken for me. I want to take back a heart for the lost, feel compassion for them and do something about it. I think God is prompting me to talk to my non-Christian friends and family members.

This was a very different tour from the past. I came excited because I expected different things and the Lord gave me a compassionate heart for people. I cried when so many people were not interested in accepting our leaflets. I learned how to pray and to use the apologetics I had just learned before coming. When I go back, I want to start interceding for my campus.

There are a lot of people around us who really need the Lord. If God is powerful enough to heal people, He can also take care of our problems at home. It is good to see you all grow these past three weeks, but Christianity is a lifetime process, not three days, so my prayer is that you will all grow as we get back to LA.

I joined Vision to learn how to share God's love with others. It was encouraging for me to work with Mark and Pastor Chua and see how they make worship, prayer, and evangelism their lifestyle. I also felt very grateful for Uncle Marsh's patience and love for each member. I learned very much from his example. In addition, I experienced the power and importance of prayer. Our outreach at Leichester Square was less successful because we did not prepare ourselves with prayers beforehand. Praying is important because we do not war against flesh and blood but spiritual powers. I had a rash which was healed after Mark prayed for me, so I experienced the reality of God's love. Jesus became real to me personally.

I almost did not make this trip since the passport office did not want to give me my passport, but God provided it at the last minute. I was skeptical initially when Mark made Tishia and Connie's leg grew, but praying to God helped me see how what he was doing was real. This tour was really hard for me, since God took a lot of things away from me - my tendinitis on my hands made me feel helpless, my cough did not allow me to sing with the rest of the team, I don't get enough sleep since I cough at night, so I feel frustrated that others who are well are not walking up in time or witnessing when I could not. But God has helped me out and comforted me when I focus on Him. So I learned a lot of patience from this trip; God also showed me how much pride I have, relying on my talents, and He took those away from me this trip to make me learn to trust in Him. I want to bring back a new attitude on how to use the gifts God has given me.

I learned it is better to have others with me to make me accountable than to be always by myself. I learned how prayer is so helpful. I have tried doing evangelism on my campus before but I think I am more bold to do that now.

This tour went by so quickly. Last year on tour, I learned to trust God and this year, He stretched my faith so much more. After the first week, I was quite down and discouraged, I got homesick, but God led me to pray, and He carried me through the tough times and enabled me to go on. I want to take back Jesus' teaching about not hiding my lamp but letting it shine, so I want to reach out to people and not hide it, in school and around the neighborhood.

I actually got to see healing before my eyes. During a missions trip, it is easy to focus on God, but in LA, it is harder when I am by myself. I think maybe full time missions is something I want to do in the future. Faith is confidence in God and not in myself. I have a lot more to learn, and as I go back to LA, I want to know more about God so I will be better prepared to serve Him in the future.

This trip is a dream come true, there will be opportunities for follow-up to raise up a new generation of missionaries. Pray that 5 people from Cerritos will join Vision next year, this is as much a missions trip as anything can be. This was a hard trip for me physically, foot hurts, eye infected, etc., but I feel alive spiritually. God wanted me to come on this trip and one purpose is to share with my mother. I finally got the courage to ask her and am bringing her to the healing meeting tomorrow (August 2) so pray for her to recover from her stroke. I want to take home not just head knowledge, but the real knowledge that I am safest in God's will, like when we went to Chinatown. I want to seek to be in the center of God's will when I go back.

The first thing I learned is that you can't be on time in London, because the tubes are unreliable, so I shouldn't get upset when people are late. I was really glad that we could do a Vision tour with a church, so they can do follow up, and we can get to know what happened afterwards. We sang a lot less that we hoped for, because they didn't know what Vision does I see the tour was in three phrases; first part was where we had to learn humility, secondly, was the phase we learned to tolerated each other, then last phase was the time we learned to love and care for each other. I learned to pray with authority. Healing with authority!!! I don't know what we are going to do next year. But I'm thinking we will go to England every three years, Canada every three years, and somewhere else every three years. I want to bring back the praying with authority, and also bring back all the kids in one piece.