I’m sitting currently at a coffee shop in Jaco, Costa Rica! That’s right…. Month 8•New country•New team.
Meet team LSS (Listen, Surrender, Serve).
Left to right: Yours truly, Hannah L., Victoria, Jeorgi, Hannah G., and Farrah. My LAST team before this journey is over and we head back to the states. So hard to believe. What a joy to finish these last months with these beautiful ladies and serve them in a new role as team treasurer.
We are in the city of San Jose partnering with a church. We have two options for sleeping arrangements. Numero uno: Hammocking inside the church.
Numero dos: Sleeping on the ground.
Our ministry so far has been working and helping out in the local school. I spent time with sweet Maria and her class. Gosh, what pure joy. You can say I was thriving and loving every minute of this. Kids are kids no matter where you are and they have so much love to give.
The wildest part about the race is the relationships I form all around the world!! Maria said her “frustrating dream” was to learn English well. My response was my dream was to learn Spanish well. Lol. So we gave each other lessons! I love google translate!! Haha!
We have also spent the week painting the outside of the church.
Not sure what the week ahead is going to bring. We are learning to be flexible on the race. It could look completely different. I am loving this country and it’s people. You will never meet more relational people than here. They are interruptible and run on their own time. They care about people, having conversations and they slow down. One thing we could work on back in the states, am I right?? Ha!
We had the opportunity to take an adventure day to the beach here in Jaco.
I was walking along the beach this morning just talking to God verbally out loud, not caring how crazy I looked. Talking to him just about a whole lot of things and my heart just pouring over with gratitude and great hope for the future. He has given me some incredible vision and peace of what life is going to look like post race and can’t wait to share when the time is right. I’ve just never been at such a point of surrender and frankly just not worrying about what’s ahead because he’s got this. I care where my feet are planted RIGHT this very minute.
A lot of what I was talking to God about and the desire of my heart is to walk out these last four months of the race in such a way it sets me up for success when I get back home. It would be so easy to just coast the rest of the way and get complacent but I simply refuse. I’m going out with a bang and it starts here in Costa Rica.
So much more room to grow and so much to learn these last months. More love to give. God have your way.
Much love to you all!!!
