cielo...jazz...rest

hola hola mis amigitos.
i hope that you are doing good. life here is finally calming down. i just finished a group presentation in one of my classes and that should finish off any big assignments for a little while at least. praise god. i am so excited to just rest this weekend and not have to rush to finish a paper or something. as for this past weekend...i got to go to santo domingo and stay with my friends, lindsay and elliott drake who are missionaries there. it was so so great to hang out with them and see a little more of their day-in and day-out life. it was a good weekend of rest and fun times in cielo and nazaret. on saturday, i got to hang out with lots of different families in cielo. i don't really know what to say about it, the lord was just so faithful in my time there. he gave me a lot of joy in being there and among my friends. and thankfully i will be returning in about a week and a half to spend the week with the group of wake students coming with emmaus. i am sooooo excittttteeeeddd to see friends and have times of worship and prayer. anyways, so here are a few pics from the weekend...

this one is one of my new fave dr pics ever:



this is one of the sweetest little friends i have...notice the unicorn featured in most of these pictures (one of the little girls insisted that we take pictures with it, i didn't resist obviously):



these are the solo shots that were at high demand:
my personal fave is llamarlyn, the smaller 2-year-old, learning how to pose for pics. hilar...







so on sunday i went to church and then hung out in the neighborhood for a while and finished the afternoon off cheering for cielo's softball team as they dominated some other not as cool team.

this is a dude i saw scaling the coconut tree right outside of lindsay and elliotts house. no big deal:



then tuesday eventually came along and some of us went to a jazz concert thing at this really small bar/jazz music place. it was really fun and really really good playing of instruments. nothing like sitting 3 feet away, directly facing, the saxophone player. awkward eye contact was basically unavoidable. love it. alright now we are on/in/at today. my friend joe and i went to teach our p.e. class bright and early this morning but when we arrived we found a very closed looking school. so we decided to wander around a little and then just walk back instead of take a van thing. it was an overall good morning and allowed us to get some good exercise. and then the rest of the day hasn't really been anything too crazy except i got to talk to my dear friend molly b which was fab of course. as for things i am learning...god answers prayers. the little prayers, the big prayers. he is a faithful god. he always brings freedom.
may you find rest in him today.