We made it to Costa Rica Friday. We live in a rainforest where it rains a lot, obviously. I am slowly remembering the spanish that I learned in class.
I will post a picture of our ministry hosts, Rasta and Elci Romero, tomorrow. They are so nice, they cook for us, show us around town, they teach us how to do ministry, and join us in it. They also help us learn spanish. I will be uploading photos of our home tomorrow, since it is raining really hard right now.
We didn’t do ministry Saturday, because we had a 4 hours and a 7 hour bus ride. So it was nice to go to the beach on Saturday and relax. I have also tried a lot of different things, including mango, starfruit, chinky, plantain chips, and fried plantains. These are all very good and I am looking forward to continuing eating them. I have also enjoyed living more sustainably. We do this by washing our dishes in buckets, composting all left over food, only using the running water to wash dishes or our hands, and doing everything outside except sleeping. I have enjoyed seeing how different cultures do things, and even taking ideas from them to see how I can live more sustainably. We also walk everywhere, always in groups. I have found it interesting that in the rainforest there are patches of bamboo but what is interesting to me is that in those spots the bamboo is overtaking, to the point of the bamboo getting in its own way. I will post a picture of it tomorrow. Kinda going on a tangent about sustainable living and the woods, but it’s something I really enjoy.
God has been teaching me that it is good to need Him, and He will provide if I am just willing to let him have it. This is really hard to learn. He has also been teaching me that there is beauty in the pain. God has showed me this in a couple different ways, one of them was a tree growing out of a broken pot (I’ll have a picture of it tomorrow). He also showed me it though a drawing of a tear drop, with a plant growing in it, showing me that there is also beauty in the tears. I always thought of crying as a weakness even though I know that it’s not. I am excited to be in Costa Rica even though I can’t do ministry till I finish fundraising.
I still have about $3,000 left to raise. So please pray and ask the Lord if He wants you to support me in this way. And if not please pray that God will provide it in His time.
