This week was a wet one. Lots and lots of storms. I
have never seen rain like this before. It comes down in HUGE drops and
it never stops! Also the lightning is insane! It happens about every
5-10 seconds and is always accompanied by crazy loud cracks of thunder.
Its super cool. Luckily the rain hasnt been a huge problem in my área,
but there has been some major flooding in other áreas. It makes sense
though, summer is the rainy season here. I also found out this week that
there are only two seasons here in Costa Rica. Summer and Winter. Most
people dont even know about the other two. I had a cool thing happen a
couple of days ago during the storm though. I accidently forgot my
umbrella when I left the house and it starting pouring during our first
appointment. But the wierdest thing happened. Every time we ended an
appointment and had to walk to a different house, the rain stopped. Then
the second we got into a new house, it started again. I thought it was
just a coincidence, but then the next day I talked to the sisters who
were in the área right next to us and they said that they both forgot
their umbrellas yesterday and the same thing happned to them! Crazy how
the Lord protects you from even Little stuff like rain.
Last
week I forgot to mention that I gave a talk in church. It was a Little
intimidating, but I think it went pretty well. I had it all written out,
and read it pretty much Word for Word, but at least I could get my
point across that way. My companion didnt prepare anything for his talk,
but it went really well. Hopefully I can get to that point where I can
just get up there and give a good, understandable talk in spanish on the
fly.
This week was pretty cool. I feel like im really
starting to bond with the people here. I dont know if thats because I
can actually kind of understand the language now, or Im just not afraid
of looking dumb trying to talk anymore. This week one of our
investigators got remarried in a catholic church and we decided to stop
by her house afterwards for the party. When we got there she gave us
soda and cake and introduced us to her whole family. We ended up staying
for hours and had a good time! She introduced us to her family as her
really good mormon friends. Her family had a good time making me say all
these weird Costa Rican slang words. I still dont know what I said... I
hope it wasnt anything bad. they seemed to love it though. haha
This
saturday it was our turn to clean the church. The whole church has tile
floor so it was a tonnnn of sweeping. Luckily a recent convert family
came to help us and it sped things up a lot. The family has two kids
named Katherine and Christian. Katherine is 8 and is the cutest Little
girl ever! I had never met her before but when she saw I was the new
missionary she ran up to me and hugged me (well my legs, because shes
like super short (and Im not sure if im supposed to hug children but she
surprised me and I couldnt stop her so its not my fault)) She and I had
a great conversation about her and her english teacher and the United
States. I love talking to kids because they are super patient with my
terrible spanish and love to correct me. After we cleaned the church we
went to the piano and I taught them how to play a couple of songs. It
was a lot of fun. When we were teaching the parents the next day in
góspel principles they invited us to go to the Zoo in San Jose with them
next monday. I hope that Works out!
The misión meeting was
pretty fun. I got to meet a lot of people. It is really cool seeing all
of the different countries people are from! There are a tonnnn of
latinos serving in this misión and I was pretty lost during most of the
meeting because it was all in spanish. Everyone was really sad that
president was leaving. I wish I could have gotten to know him better...
The new president comes tomorrow though and Im excited to meet him!
Spanish update: Still hard. Still improving.
Hey did
you get the card I sent you? I sent a graduation card to Elise weeks ago
from the MTC. Just wanted to make sure. Keep praying for me! I miss you
all so much! Hope all is well!
Love you Mom!
Hope you have a good week! Pray and read your scriptures!
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