The Training Camping in Lagi, Bình Thuan Province of The Candidate House

I would like to tell about my last summer training camping trip in Lagi, Binh Thuan province. On preparing for that event, I must got up at 1:00 am, very early. I and brothers in my community had a slight meal with instant noodles. Then we rode motorbikes to Thien Than Church. There were 145 people attended the training camp. The name of the camping trip was “Tứ Hải Giai Huynh Đệ”. At Thien Than Church, we took buses to Lagi at 3:00 am. On the way to our camping place, we dropped by Tapao; there we celebrated Mass to pray God for peace and happiness to our hearts and families. After Mass we had breakfast before continuing to go to Lagi beach. When we arrived at our camping area, we must overcome some obstacles before getting into the main entrance. At that time, we was tired because we were asked to swim across a small pond, to get ourselves into a net. The morning program ended with building tents and having lunch together. There were 10 teams in the training camp. Each team was named after a Jesuit Saint. In the afternoon, we had a big game from 1:30 pm to 4:00pm. In that big game, we must pass some stages, come down sea then come up hills. We tried to decode secret letters and designed a banner which we presented at the end of the game. We had 40 minutes to swim at 4:30 because we needed time to prepare for our evening show. As usual, we had a camp fire after having dinner. We sang, danced and prayed together in God’s Love. At 10:30pm, we went to sleep. In the morning next day, we attended Mass, did exercises and took photos together. From 8:00 am to 10:00 am, we had time to visit other teams in their tents. We sang and played some games with each other. Then we cleaned up the camp place and went to Dong Ha Church to have  lunch. After all, we came back home in God’s Love. The trip in Lagi beach was an interesting experience to me. I had time to relax after a hard-working term. I got a chance to meet and make friends with many nice people. I learned more about friendship and solidarity. That truly was a wonderful training camp.