CONTENTMENT.

Wow. Can I just sum up the last month of my life in one word? 


CONTENTMENT.


I came back the Dominican Republic jumping back into the life I left off with in June. But after traveling and taking EIGHT planes in the span of 5 days, I was ready for a little rest. HAH! 
I had about one day to decorate my classroom and the day after was the first day of school.  I started the year thinking I would have 15 students, but this slowly grew to 18.  So now I have one of the largest classes in the school...again. But we don't get thrown anything we can't handle, right? 

all the boys

It's fun. My class this year is made up of 9 boys and 9 girls, where the class dynamic is very much different than last year. A good different. The problem is that they are all friends and get along a little "too" well - but I guess that's a good problem to have, right? 

all the girls

Luckily, it seems God understood my need for rest and sent Hurricane Irene our way.  We got lucky and only had a ton of rain the first day, and hardly anything the second day. The best part--> NO SCHOOL for two days! It was awesome, and rest well needed!

I decided to become a YoungLife leader again this year. We went on a leader's retreat for a weekend, and while I was still hesitant to decide if I really wanted to make the commitment for the full year this year, I felt a complete sense of peace with the other leaders.  When we had our first club (youth group type thing) I felt contentment that I was making the right choice. So, it's back to YoungLife this year! I'm puuuuuumped :)

I think I found my "home church" here now. There's this school/church out here called Escuela Caribe, which is a boarding school for rebellious American teenagers. They just got a new pastor, who is aMAZing (and the best part of this church...its all in ENGLISH!). Last year I got incredibly burnt out from surface level preaching, let alone surface level preaching in spanish, to the point of me never caring to go to church.  However, the people at Escuela Caribe are incredible and have such great hearts for God.  I am always so inspired every time I go there by who I encounter while I'm there. I've also become a little more fond of someone that works there, so that's fun too ;)


I am incredibly content with where I'm at in life right now. Maybe God is putting this peace into my life as a hint for future plans? I don't know... I've learned my lesson so many times not to have high expectations about anything, so I'm simply taking each day as it comes.  Who knows!


Please pray. Pray for my class and Jarabacoa Christian School. Pray for my roommates and friends. Pray for finances.  Pray for safety (our house was broken into two weeks ago).  Pray for relationships being built and strengthened on the foundation of God.  And pray for this contentment to continue, God-willing.  Prayer is so powerful! 




...Thank you :)