{"id":3360,"date":"2025-07-26T23:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T06:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:19:05","slug":"one-of-ysmps-three-musketeers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/blog\/one-of-ysmps-three-musketeers\/","title":{"rendered":"One of YSMP&#8217;s Three Musketeers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elvin Zhang<\/p>\n<p>My mom randomly asked me one evening if I wanted to go on the YSMP trip this year (2024), I replied yes because I imagined I would learn a lot of things spiritually on this trip, and I was right. On this YSMP trip, I was responsible for basketball camp in the morning and games during VBS. I learned many things that I wouldn\u2019t have learned on my own. I learned how to spread the gospel to complete strangers when we were doing the door-to-door activity. I felt comfortable giving flyers out and inviting them to our VBS because everyone in the neighborhood was very nice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-11.png\" rel=\"lightbox[3360]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3361 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-11-e1741842957963-288x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-11-e1741842957963-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-11-e1741842957963.png 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">While I was on the YSMP trip, I felt really happy to be there because I had a good time with other Christians on the trip, and felt like I trusted everyone with everything I have because I got to know each and every one of the youths during the trip. I also made 2 friends that I will always remember from the trip because we all shared the same sense of humor, and we all share an incredible amount of similarities which made us bond, and we called ourselves, \u201c<strong>the three musketeers<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-style: normal;font-weight: 300\" href=\"http:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-31.png\" rel=\"lightbox[3360]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3362 size-medium\" style=\"border-color: #bbbbbb;background: #eeeeee\" src=\"http:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-31-300x215.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-31-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-31.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The door-to-door activity has taught me many things. Most of the houses all had wild dogs in their front yard and they looked very aggressive and I didn\u2019t want to step into their yard because the dogs scared me. Then I thought about how other people might also be afraid to give flyers out to them which means that they won\u2019t be able to be introduced to the gospel if we didn\u2019t have the courage to step into their yard with the dogs. I also learned another very valuable lesson during the activity. I learned to be more grateful for everything I have because I felt like kids there weren\u2019t really being treated like children by their parents. They were always playing with their brothers or sisters but never with their father or mother because of the drug abuse problem in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-41.png\" rel=\"lightbox[3360]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3367 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-41-e1741843021622-285x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-41-e1741843021622-285x300.png 285w, https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/elvin-ysmp-41-e1741843021622.png 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>God has taught me many things on this trip and I will always remember the many things I\u2019ve learned from the YSMP trip. The YSMP trip was a very good experience and I enjoyed going to YSMP with brothers and sisters from our church and from ACBC. I hope to go again next year to learn even more things. Thank the Lord for being with us during the trip, to God be all the glory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvin Zhang My mom randomly asked me one evening if I wanted to go on the YSMP trip this year (2024), I replied yes because I imagined I would learn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}