Mucho Calor!

Hello everyone! Well it's almost the busy season here and its starting to get hot..like really hot! Summer here is from November-ish until May-ish. Everyone keeps telling me that Summer is Muy Caliente! Mucho Calor is part of my everyday vocabulary now:) 

The congregation once again is changing! We have had another new family move in with 2 kids. We have some visitors here from Florida also considering a move here in the future so that is really encouraging. We also have a new couple that just moved in from Canada. They were in the french congregation but also speak english. They are both pioneering and Eric, the brother, is an elder. Oh how we needed another elder! The Dons ( as I have so aptly nicknamed them because ..well they are both named Don) have been working so hard! One of our Dons will probably be leaving us soon as they have decided to cross over into Macedonia..yet again. In this case Macedonia is Nicaragua:) They just got back from there and have some amazing experiences. I will share those in my next blog. The preaching work is awesome in Nicaragua! Okay but ler me back up to Eric and Rachel's  story. They wrote the branch and wanted to come to Costa Rica. they actually requested a Spanish congregation but were sent back word to come to our group instead as we are really in need. Rachel doesn't speak Spanish and was very apprehensive about going to a Spanish congregation. She said that when they got the news from Bethel, they were really excited to be asked to come to an English group! ..and English is their 2nd language!  We all already love all of our new people!  

I had my first part as a householder last week and it went good! I was so nervous. After the meeting a little sister came up and told me that she understood almost everything I said. I'll take it! LoL Also Tyler had a 10 minute part, Solo Espanol! He did great. We had to bring our TV from home and rig it up to show the video. The kids loved it! Ty;er is also giving his first public talk the first week of December, in English. 

Service is good. It will kick into high gear once all of the people start coming for high season and Im so ready! Last weekend in service me and the sister I was with possibly restarted a study in Spanish. We also had some great 45 minute conversations with people so we will see what comes of those. 2 new bible studies were started in English last week also!  Very exciting:) 

The English group is planning on venturing out and working farther south soon. We want to start going to more remote areas where the English haven't been preached to yet so hopefully we will get that going in the next few months. It will require being gone overnight, maybe even 2 and a lot of planning since it seems like most everyone wants to go:) 

Okay its short but sweet this week! Here are some pics from the last 2 weeks:) 

Ella & her new friend Kyla in service 

Beach fun! 

This is a cave near a private little beach! so cool

cave tic tac toe 

yep people still do this here 

Asher found a Turtle hanging out outside the Kindgom  Hall 

Tylers part 

  Girls pool party! 

 After meeting for field service the girls, coloring together. 

 This is our territory.. all of those blue squares are English speaking people. If your wondering, the roads are actually that sketchy. and most territories do have rivers you have to cross😬