Costa Rica Mission 2011: So Beautiful....

AHHHHHHH I HAVE MY FIRST SUNBURN!!!!! HELP HELP HELP!!!!!!! I put sunscrean on my feet, but my flip flops must have wiped some of it off, thus causing these results!

AHHHH

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted anything, I've been pretty busy. But there's a few things I just HAVE to show you!

Friday: When me and Gabbie finished with our crafting ideas, we went to eat dinner and meet a new friend, MARTY!!!! Marty is this hilarious guy who knows how to have a good time, it's great! He'll be staying here until I believe Sunday. Later Friday night, Sussan came to visit us! She now works in San Jose so its like I can never see her!!! It's very depressing! The rest of Friday was pretty boring, so I heard comments from people that my last blog post was too long and I didn't even do anything very exciting. So on to Saturday!

The Family Reunion

Me and Marty!!!

Saturday: We had to wake up early on Saturday because we had a party for the kids, I think it was a birthday party but I'm not too sure... Anyways, since Priscilla had 2 cakes in her car me and Gabbie had to ride on a bus, this is ironic because just the other day Gabbie was telling me that she wanted to go on a bus to downtown San Jose or something like that. Well we didn't go to San Jose, but I think Gabbie is happy that she got to ride in a bus... We ended up going to like... this park, it's really hard to explain. It was like a valley with a little house, a soccer field, a garden and a swimming pool.... Why is there never a place like this in America? It was "so beautiful..."

Everybody Was swimming in da Pool

Raquel and her friend on the swingset

Me and Gabbie Did all of these Boxes

The veiw

More View

More ppl at the pool

Gabbie!

Soccer Field

The building

Grass....

ME!!!!

She's gonna kill me when she sees this!

Well Gabbie, Marty and myself sat down in the shade most of the time, after eating the traditional dish.... Rice, game time came, I really had no clue what I was doing, my favorite part was the fashion contest, we had to dress up 4 girls in News Paper, it was great. When we finished with all the games we started sitting again, how exciting! I even got to eat my very first Yippy! It's sort of like a kit kat but thicker!

Oh Boy, Emanuel is LOCO!

News Paper Fashion

RICE

My First YIPY

We met this guy named Jonny, it was great having 4 english speaking people at one table, It's been a while since I've heard it! Well Priscilla wanted us, as in me and Gabbie, to do a little skit for the kids, we agreed, my part was fun! I got to steal a ball from Emanuel!!!!! but then I had to give it back, they wanted me to say "Doma" and I yet have to figure out what that even means! Later that night we met up with Jonny, he had hacked into his wii with a hard drive and has the ability to play any game on the wii that he wants without purchasing it. So we played Just Dance 2, IT WAS SOOOO AWESOME! Especially when Paster Luis and Mama Zoolay did it together, it was sooooooooo funny!!!!

Sunday: Me and Gabbie woke up EARLY, since Paster Luis never told us what time church service started, well we got up way to early, it didn't start until 9:00. When we got into the church service, I had a interpeter who was explaining to me everything Mama Zoolay was preaching. Then.... the prayer, Oh My God, I had never heard something more beautiful, I was crying my eyes out!!! Even though I had no clue what she was saying, I could feel it, it was amazing. It was.... "So Beautiful..." Since it was the Sabbath, we didn't do much, no work.... no sleep.... we just sat around, and It's nice to have a day like that once a week! Well, it was superbowl Sunday.... me and Gabbie were both rooting for the Packers... So Raquel, Gabbie and I all made homemade cheese heads, and dressed up and green and yellow.... if that's not enough for you? We also made our own Green Bay Chant!!!!

Go Packers, Go Packers

We love you cuz your not Slackers

Today's the day, just burn that play,

and everyone'll say, GO GREEN BAY!!!!!

Yes, I know it's totally cheesy, but thats Ok!

My Cheese Head

We're so Cool

THE PACKERS WON!!!! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday: This was probably the busiest day yet! We had to pack up a bag of stuff for 3 days because we were going to La Palma for the next 3 days, La Palma is a very poor community.... the church there started out with just a few people in a house, they I'm so glad to say that now, a building is being rented and its almost filled with people, It makes me soooo happy! It's.... "so beautiful" Well when we got the the rampage began, we had already prepared things for the VBS, but you know how it is, nothing ever goes as planned! Me and Emanuel started talking, it was kind of hard to understand him just like I'm sure it was hard for him to understand me, but I see alot of me in him, like seriously, we act just alike, Serious with the Lord, yet know how to have a good time in the process. I am happy to say I survived, later that night we watched the move "Faith Like Potatoes" I have seen it before, it's an AMAZING movie and if you haven't seen it yet, I encourage you to go rent it, it will change your perspective on faith!

Jazmine and I

Emanuel

Mama Zoolay and the kids

Raquel working with the kids

Me and Emanuel

The Ninos

"so beautiful"

Marty helping with the kids

El chico y la chica!

Tuesday: FISHING!!!! Thats right, Paster Luis, Marty, Emanuel and myself (along with 3 natives) all went fishing!!!! It was awesome and terrifying at the same time! Instead of rod and string, they actually used a sling and spear! It was neat to watch them do it, however most of the time Marty and myself just watched. The 3 natives caught about 20 fish, Paster Luis and Emanuel both caught 1! I didn't want to get my camera wet so I only took a few pictures.

The River View

Cool Trees

Paster Luis in the water

Wading in the water

Paster Luis and one of the Natives

The usual

Me being Beautiful

Working

Later we had a church service, the church service is always AMAZING, from what I know, I was on my knees praying and I was crying so hard at how beautiful it was, I started hyperventilating and passed out, Jazmine had to wake me up! I yet have to know how long I was out. But I was hurt or injured in anyway, just got a headache from falling on my head.

Wednesday: After all of our hard work, Wednesday was our day of rest, we decided that we will go to Arenal, they had these natural hot springs there where the water ran from the volcano to little pools that hey had, the water was HOT, and it was all natural, no chlorine or any other chemicals, it was awesome! I kept on saying that everything was SO BEAUTIFUL, Gabbie was getting very annoyed saying I have no other way of describing something, so I now have my new saying.... Beyond my imagination!!! On our way there we saw some monkeys, everybody was telling me the they were my Primos, I later learned the a Primo is a Cousin, Sorry Mimi, you've been replaced! JK!