Hello everyone,
I’ve only been in Costa Rica for a little over a week and I’ve already experienced a lot. To start off I’ll tell you about the base where I’ll be living for the next three months. I am staying at a very newly opened Adventures in Missions (AIM) base in the province of San José, Costa Rica. All six of our squad’s teams are currently staying here at the base. This means I’m living in a house with over 50 people! Our base is very nice and we have ready access to showers (albeit, cold ones), clean water, and a refrigerator. From our back porch we have a beautiful view of the Costa Rican mountains. Our squad has been very blessed to be in the home that we’re in.
(this is the view from our back porch!)
As for ministry, my team and I will be working at a private school and community center (whose name I’m not supposed to share for safety reasons). Our team helps tutor students in English, math, and science. We’ve also been sweeping and mopping classrooms, playing four-square, UNO, and today I had the pleasure of making pancakes for the kids at the community center. So far, I have absolutely loved the ministry we have been doing; the language barrier is difficult and I have somehow been picked as the team translator (pray for me!). However, google translate and an app called SayHi have been a Godsend. Our team is actually split in half each day; half the team stays in the private school and helps teach and the other half (my half) goes to the life center which is in a slum called The Pines. It is heartbreaking to see the place that these families live in. The Pines is a rough area with all metal houses, the ground is dirt and it is littered with pieces of broken glass and trash. I don’t have a picture to share with you yet but hopefully, I will have one soon.
For those of you who know me well you know that as outgoing as I can be, I need to be by myself in order to recharge and relax. I’ll admit going from having my own room and living with just my family to now sharing a room with 7 other girls and living in a house with 50 other people has been difficult to adjust to. However difficult it may be, I know that the Lord will use this to grow me and everyone here. I would ask that all of you would pray for me and my team to grow closer together, for the Lord to bless our ministry(and the ministry of the other teams), and for myself that I am able to learn Spanish quickly so that I will better able to minister to these kids.
Thank you all so much for reading my blog, may the Lord bless and keep you all.
Sincerely,
Molly McCrary
