Los Dias Primeros

*Tip of the Day: Don't leave your boarding pass in your backpack when you go out of security to get Subway for dinner! They WILL NOT let you back through...even if you're only a foot from the exit...

Journal Entry 2-Arrival and so on and so on...

After getting through the unusually crowded Phoenix airport at 5:30am, I had a smooth check-in (thanks to my super knowledgeable grandpa who works at the airport) and a yummy breakfast w/ my grandparents. On to Miami I went, met my team, and went to grab dinner with my teammate, Elle. *See Tip of the Day

So we get to Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic-hooray! We had to wait a bit because Marti's bag was lost. While losing only 1 out of at least 14 is actually pretty good for international travel, it was still sad for Marti. So we hung out for a while then got to ride on this awesome van that we named the Mystery Machine. It had these rockin' curtains on the windows-stylin'!! The next morning we got to hear John Piper speak at a free conference he was speaking at (amazing!) and we got to worship in Spanish. 

Something Piper said really stuck out to me. He was talking about Christians getting so busy and caught up in things like work, school, ministry...ministry? That's totally me! I hadn't thought about it in a while, but sometimes I can be a Martha (Luke 10:40). Completely distracted by the "ministry" and the "change" instead of just on the glory of God. I should focus on letting God change me instead of all the "change" I think I'm supposed to be accomplishing. Isn't it all in God's hands anyway? Well, thanks for the reminder! :)