"God bless you...baby!"

Hoy es Domingo 18 de Mayo.
We haven't written in a couple days because the presidential elections were going on and we were warned to "lay low" just in case riots broke out. Not very surprisingly, Leonel was re-elected, and lucky for us nobody was too upset. While we waited for everything to play out we hung with Donna and Phil and went into Cabarete where we enjoyed some live Bachata a la playa (at the beach)... This was in fact Josh's reason of the day for loving the Dominican.
This morning we went to church for the english morning service, which allowed the Dominicans to practice their english on us. We met a lot of cool people there with great connections for projects in the next couple months. Afterwards we went to the beach with some other girls from Canada and some missionary kids from around here. Josh enjoyed "Banana Hammock Sunday"... Most of the locals go to the beach on Sunday's and there is standing room only, but we clearly snuck into the foreigner's beach where the European men showed us their stuff (Oh boy, I know). In the evening Rana y yo went to another church service in a Dominican community where we helped build houses in the past. We were able to surprise a couple of our friends that we keep in contact with throughout the year and luckily since we had visited before and met the pastor we didn't have to stand up and shout our names out like last time!

Please continue to pray that we will be given incredible opportunities and know what God wants us to be doing. There is such a ridiculous need here; it's hard to decide where our time and money is best spent. I think we would all also appreciate some prayer for learning spanish because our communication is kind of embarrassing.

P.S: The quotation "God bless you ... baby" comes from a fun friend we met on the street. We thought it was kind of awesome that he tried to use God to pick up girls... I hope that line doesn't work!