-: Mar 21, 2010

So Friday night, the kids and I went to market to buy a fat pig....jus kiddin...but we did buy fresh tomatoes, onions, cilantro, avacodos, pineapples....yum! I was thinking salsa while shopping...I can't believe that we were able to get two pineapples for $2.00. I will miss the fruit from here, it tastes sooo good. Here Elesia and Logan were helping me pick out fruit. Erika was hiding from the camera...

After the market, we headed home and did some things around the casa and then off to bed for the Olvera family for good nights rest.

Saturday morning came early and we headed to the Kingdom Hall for service. Here we are all ready to go out and preach the good news while others helped in painting and cleaning the hall

I think it was already 90 degrees by 9am. It's been sooo hot!

Painting the inside a light yellow. It looks so nice now!

And here's the toilet that Nate installed the other day. IT WORKS!!!! Yeah.....

Saturday service was amazing!!! We headed off to Portosol, about 30 mins away. I've discovered that Satin does a great job distracting people in the world...especially in the United States. He keeps people sooo busy in life from mortgage and car payments, to credit cards and always trying to reach for bigger and better things that we don't take the time to stop and smell the flowers...I've smelled several here and can't believe the beauty of creation and even the smallest of details that our creator has given us to enjoy like all the smells and beautiful colors....

I had two wonderful calls there....one with Bethany, she is in the Peace Corp and has been here for 2 years helping. We talked about having the same thing in common...which is peace and shared a scripture with her and the tract on peace, then an invite to the memorial. She will be working that night, but wants to attend the special talk...on peace. I hope she makes it! She was very sweet

Another call that was great was with Vanessa... She was sooo nice. Her husband just got laid off and now they have no income, but I told her that she still has Jehovah and He will take care of them as long as they put him 1st in their lives. I had her get her bible and I shared Psalms 37:10 and 11. She commited on how she looks forward to when they won't have to suffer anymore. After a wonderful conversation and meeting her kids she agreed to a study and wants to come to the Kingdom hall for the special worldwide talk. She has no transportation, so she can't attend the memorial as the bus doesn't run that late, but definitely wants us to come back. I'm making arrangements for her family to get a ride....She couldn't believe that we came all the way from Portland, OR to bring her a invitation to the memorial. I received a GREAT BIG HUG and we both had tears in our eyes. I will miss her and wish that I could continue to study with her....The need is sooo great! It's sooo nice to find people that really want to learn about the bible and we can share a hope for them. What a comfort this is!!!

I really thank Joyce and Betsy for knocking on my door and studying with me... Cora for the continuation of my study to baptism, a wonderful congregation for all the support, Jehovah for drawing me to Him and His son Jesus and now what I've experienced as a worldwide association of loving brothers and sisters. Sometimes I feel like I can't show enough appreciation....all I can do is give Jehovah my best!

After a great day in service, we had a wonderful luch...Pork and Yucca. It was sooo good. He smoked the pork and served it with limon and hot sauce...

Good food, association and an ice cold soda after a great day in service. We couldn't ask for more.... except after getting home and making dinner we enjoyed the company of the Barros again.. Little Benji helped me make chocolate pudding for after dinner and he really enjoyed it. He is sooo cute! I want to put him in my carry on...I don't think they will let me!

After a great dinner of Chicken, spanish rice, salad and vanilla icecream with choc pudding we went over our watchtowers again and off to bed we went.

WOW!!! At 2:30am I heard a rummble. I actually thought this was it. "The end of this system" and prayed. When I got up and looked outside...it was the most incredible thunder storm Iv'e ever seen or heard. The thunder and lightning was coming at the same time and the sky was beautiful. It was sooo loud, I guess thats because vwe have a metal roof. Here are a few pictures but I wish that you could have seen it for yourselves...

It looked like the sky was on fire.....

and the water was pouring off our roof and you couldn't even see the street!!!

Back to bed for me and up at 7am for the Sunday watchtower study and public talk. What a great meeting today! I really appreciated the reminder of how we can distinguish God people by their fruits...like their actions and the love they show. What a great reminder for me of the sacrifice that we are doing her in Costa Rica for complete strangers. I really love the opportunity that we have and it has brought our family closer together as one...We look forward to our next! Here is a couple of great pictures from our congregation here...