Costa Rica dia de seis!

Today is our last day here so this will be my last update. We will be heading back to San Jose tomorrow morning at 7 am. Our flight leaves about 12 pm and we will be back in Tampa around 11 pm. Today we spent the morning painting and doing maintenance at the place we are staying and church that we have been working with and now we´ve got some free time in Turrialba doing some shopping and walking around. It has been an amazing week, thanks for keeping us in your prayers and the support you have given everyone truly has a different perspective on life and has grown a lot in this short time. I know every time I go on a mission trip I end up learning a lot more than I did helping out. Our team really bonded well too so I have some great new friends! We will be having a special celebration next Saturday after the pm service for showing pictures and hearing from the team so you will hear more about that soon. Hasta luego for now!!

Costa Rica dia de quatro y cinco

Buenos noches! I will add pics tomorrow this dumb card reader isn´t working! I´m able to update this at random times so today you´ll get an update from last night and today. Wed night we did a service for young people at the church we are working at called Messengers of Hope. It was a rainy Costa Rica evening but lots of people still showed up. They did some great songs in Espanol and they we did some in English and Spanish. Josh taught specifically to the young people on not following the crowd. The youth that came with us did an AMAZING skit to music called Everything, language was not a barrier as the message definately got across.


Today, Thursday was our free day. The entire group went Caverning up in the mountains here. It was hiking and repelling down waterfalls. There were 3 repels down, one of them being 70 feet high, it was so much fun. Definately nothing like that in FL! Brad and the fam, Bruce, Josh, and Beth headed back to San Jose early because their flight tomorrow is on American air and they are cancelling a ton of flights. If you think about it pray for them to get back safely tomorrow!

Costa Rica Dia de tres and quatro

We made it to Turrialba yesterday! The Costa Rican countryside is beautiful. We are pretty far up in the mountains as you can see from the picture below. There is lots of coffee, ferns, bananas and flowers that people farm. Turrialba also has nice internet cafes so I´ll be able to keep updating you. I put descriptions of what the pictures are below, check it out...................

A few hours after we arrived, our team plugged right into a a really neat kids ministry. This woman named Ruth feeds a group of about 100 kids that are mostly homeless. We went to the church where they meet and did skits.

Romina is one of our group members, she is originally from Argentina so has been awesome in helping translate. She was helping translate for Brad who is sharing the Gospel with all the kids and their parents, about 30 raised their hands that they prayed to accept Christ! The families are so excited to have us and were so much fun.

Here´s a group of the kiddos waving and playing ball .

Josh, Sophie, David, and even Bruce did a skit, it was hilarious! The kids loved it, they were laughing so hard!

We also helped feed them and passed out goodie bags that had toothpaste, crayons, bouncie balls and fun stuff in them. Here´s Landon helping pass them out.

These 2 are so cute, I was hanging out with them. They loved their treat bags and and also seeing their pictures on the camera.

Below starts today, we went to a local park to invite youth and kids to a youth service we will be doing tonight. This park is about 6 blocks from where we are staying. Everyone here is so friendly and happy to talk to us. Brad and Bruce are teaching at a pastor´s conference here this afternoon where there are about 30 local pastors and wives. These pastors have practically no training so it is huge for them to be able to be a part of it. More to come...................................