"Here am I, Lord, send me!"

The Pearman's left at noon on Monday and I headed straight to school to have lunch with Ryan. After lunch I came home and it was the first time I had been by myself in 9 days. I realized that I was exhausted, so I took a 2 hour deep-sleep nap! We had SO MUCH fun with our company, but we had stayed very busy the entire time. We really want them to come for another visit and we want all of you to come for the first time! We are very excited that Julie will be coming in May!

So, Monday afternoon my life went back to normal - I was baking bread and blogging. :) Tuesday night we had our last women's bible study. :( Three of the girls are leaving the island in April to go to Miami so we are sad! We are going to have a dinner this Wednesday night to hang out one last time because I leave the island on FRIDAY! Can you believe it? This semester has flown by for me! Basically, we decided last weekend that I was going to go on a mission trip starting Friday, April 4th! Elizabeth (Kitrell) Williams invited me to join their mission team in St. Martin and so I decided this was definitely the perfect way to spend my time down here! I'm very excited! St. Martin is less than 1 hr flying time from Dominica, but of course you cannot take a direct flight. We have 2 airlines here: American & LIAT. If if took American I would have to spend the night on another island. How dumb! I'm taking LIAT and I will have to take a 30 min (probably less) flight to Antigua, hang out there for about 3.5 hours and then take a 30 min flight to St. Martin. Please pray that the mission trip goes well and that much good will be done in St. Martin! I feel a little guilty because Dad just got back from a mission trip in the jungle where he slept in a tent and I'm going on a mission trip to St. Martin where I will be staying in a hotel. :) I don't think it's a fancy one, though. Hey, people everywhere need to know about God's love! I get back to Dominica on April 9th (have to leave the trip early) and then leave Dominica to head to Tennessee on April 10th!!! I literally only have 5 days left on Dominica this semester! Ryan gets home on April 25th. He has 9 tests during the last 2 weeks of school, so we bought my plane tickets to come home early. Now he has decided he doesn't want me to leave early, but there are no other flights available! We leave to come back to the island on May 9th. Home for a month! =) Put it on your calendars because we want to see everybody!

On Tuesday night Ryan was going to give Adam a haircut and I asked if he could give me one, too. And he did!!! I talked him through it and he did a great job. He was very careful and took his time and even layered the hair around my face a little (after I showed him how)! He probably only cut about half an inch. I have an apt. with Martha Lynn for the first week I'm back in town so I knew she could fix it if he messed up. I was just tired of my dead ends.

The rest of the week flew by. Friday night they showed I Am Legend on campus. Well, it wasn't the kind of movie I generally like. It held my interest, but I was really disappointed with the ending. That night I was telling Ryan about it and realized that a lot of things did not make sense and were not consistent. Anyway, not a movie I ever want to see again. Last night we went to dinner with Adam's mom & stepdad. Today after church we had 4 baptisms! I'll post pictures of those next. One of the girls who got baptized, Jamie, has been in my bible study the past 2 semesters. Our preacher gave each person a chance to share their story and when Jamie started talking she got emotional and I was standing next to Ralna and we both just started crying! I usually cry at baptisms because I feel so moved, but add that with the fact that I'm a sympathy crier and you've got a mess! :) Happy crying, of course!

Since I didn't have any pictures to go with this post, I'm adding a random one. It's from a couple of weeks ago at a game night. We were playing Cranium and Andrea and I won! :)