Our Honeymoon: Falling in love with Dominican Republic!

It's official...Trevor and I are MARRIED and HOME from our honeymoon! It's definately still sinking in that we are married and that I now call Harker Heights, "home."

Trevor and I got to spend a week in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic last week for our honeymoon. We had an AMAZING week and loved every second of it! We spent a lot of time just relaxing at our resort, Majestic Colonial. We also went on a couple excursions...one day we went snorkeling in the Caribbean Sea and another we went on a Safari. Trevor and I both agreed that the Safari was our favorite part of the entire trip, by far! We got to spend the entire day touring around the countryside of the DR experiencing their culture and getting to know their people. It was incredible! Trevor and I fell in love with the Dominican that day...

That day as we were on the Safari passing by the schools, I felt God speaking to me about serving in some capacity in the DR. I brought it up to Trevor as soon as we stopped at our next place and he agreed that he was feeling the same pull towards the people there and possibly serving in the future. All that kept going through my mind was John's voice (officiating our wedding) and challenging us to find something in our marriage to immediately start serving in...Could it really be that God was calling us to something on our honeymoon??

We continued to have conversations about our hearts for these people the rest of the week but were unsure of what it would look like because we hadn't received any information on donating to the schools, orphanages, etc.

We also really enjoyed just being around the locals there who worked at our resort. Trevor and I found it difficult to just sit back at our all-inclusive resort and be "served" by these people... we were constantly wondering and talking about what their lives were like and what their stories were. On our last night at the resort we went to a Japanese restaurant and had a habachi style meal, where everyone eats family style at one large table surrounding the grill. It was fun to see others also on their honeymoons or vacationing, but it was eye-opening to see how everyone interacted. For the most part it was all Americans at the table along with a couple who appeared to be European. The most interesting part was watching the Americans act as if they were "entitled" to the service they were getting/not getting. I watched as people demanded things rudely from the waiters and even laughed at some of them when they attempted to communicate with their broken english. I was immediately disgusted. I realized then that the American culture breeds selfish and entitled people who hold themselves as higher then people of different cultures. Enough on that tangent... that night just further revealed the culture of the DR and Trevor and I fell more and more in love with it :)

We had a blast the rest of our trip and spent a ton of time just relaxing together and enjoying each other as a married couple! It was perfect! As we headed home on Sunday, we were excited to be going home and start our new life, but also sad to leave such a beautiful country... we were in line at the airport for security and a man in front of us began talking to us. It started off as small talk "Where are you from? Why are you traveling" etc, and he ended up telling us that he was in the DR for work. When we asked what he did, he told us that he runs an organization that serves the Dominican children through a school and orphanage that he built. All I could think was... "What? Are you serious? God...did you just tell him to say this??" To say the least we were shocked. We had been thinking/praying all week about how we could serve the people of this country because we felt like God was calling us to do something, but we hadn't heard clearly what that was supposed to look like. All of a sudden it was very clear that He had put this man in our path to tie the loose ends of what He was calling us to.

We are now home from our honeymoon and are going to continue praying for the Dominican people and for God to give us a clear calling on how we should serve them in our marriage in the future.

Thank you God for an amazing wedding, honeymoon, and beginning of our marriage :)