June 3, 2013 Hermana Pease
Well just a quick update...I love this Costa Rica Mission and I am so grateful for my companion, hermana Garcia, and for all the people we are teaching right now. We have one lady who is progressing right now, Maritza! I absolutely love her. She speaks hardly any english but sometimes likes to practice. On Sunday we called her to remind her of church and when she answered the phone she told me in english with her cute accent...Im ready to go to church hermana Pease. That was such a happy moment! She studies a lot and is praying a lot. She has two children and is actually married!! Finally!!!! The rest of the family is always busy that we never even see them in the house and so not a chance that we would see them at church...but on Sunday Maritza told us that She really hopes her family will join her.
On Wednesday it down poured rain all day. Our umbrellas didn’t help us at all because we were soaked from our elbows down. We also happened to be working in the area where all the mud is and we only slipped 2 or 3 times, haha. At one point Hermana Garcia slipped on her rear end, pobrecita. But it keeps us laughing, haha. However by Friday, I ended up catching a cold with a little bit of fever. But Hermana Elvira(our apartment manager) was good to make me a hot lemon juice thing with honey. It fixed me right up and I feel a lot better. I only sound really funny, ha.
On Saturday there was a huge youth stake activity. All the youth received mission calls to be missionaries for a day. The missionaries in alejuela prepared a mini MTC. They had training for about 3 hours Saturday morning and then all the rest of us missionaries from the stake arrived at the stake center for lunch. After lunch we had "companion exchanges" and for every missionary they put about two youth. So for about 2 and a half hours I went tracting with two cute 14 yr. olds. It was funny to see their reactions to certain situations as they didnt know how to react, but we were able to teach two lessons in a house. I was surprised how much confidence the two girls had in the lessons. They had a lot of energy and are excited to be missionaries. After that we all joined together again and had a testimony meeting...the spirit was super strong!!! We have the truth now we just have to share it! And I am so proud of all the youth that are preparing right now to be super valiant missionaries. We have a lot of work to do but I am so happy to be here in this mission!!! I love this gospel! Hermana Pease
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