Hello family! :) How is everyone doing??? Haven’t heard from Sam, Thomas, Ben or Jake for a while. An email from you would make me a very happy missionary!!

               Okay so right now we live in a house of 4 Hermana’s. Our house is very pretty and we even have ac which just doesn’t happen here in Costa Rica. I actually have not yet been in a house with ac besides ours and the church (just the sacrament room) and McDonald’s. It’s hotter than hot here. It’s so hot that after we shower it’s almost impossible to stay dry for more than a minute. But I love it.

               Ahh Guanacaste is just such a happy place. It’s not like the prettiest place in the world but to me it is. Everyone rides their bikes and usually someone is peddling and the other is sitting on the handle bars. Most of the roads are dirt roads. We pretty much just walk with our eyes closed because every car picks of a bunch of dust every time they pass by. This week I almost fell in a gutter. The gutters are like 6 feet deep so ya it was a miracle. Ahh we had a bunch of rainstorms this week. Holy moly the thunder is louder than anything my ears have ever heard. And the ground shakes too. I lost my umbrella so I got sooaked but it was fun.

               There are a lot more animals here. The other day we were walking to one of our appointments and we heard this huuuuge growl. Scared us half to death. My first thought was crocodiles but I was wrong. Monkeys!!!! So so so cute. I want one Mom pleeeease!!! The cutest part of it all is that every monkey that has a baby carries it on its back. Cute huh??

               When we got a little frightened a family saw and started laughing at us. So we started talking with them and they let us share a message with them. One of the ladies was really really skinny and in her stomach had a huge ball. She later told us that she has cancer and is expecting to die in a few months. We taught them the restoration and we all had tears in our eyes. They know it is the truth. But then said that they have their church and won’t ever leave it. I think that’s something that always has and always will break my heart is when someone knows the truth but doesn’t act.

     

       

   So this week we had leadership counsel. It was great!!! We had to wake up at 1 and then didn’t get home until 12 so it was a long day. But a great one. Hermana Laboriel organized the room soo cute. We each had a nametag and also a Twix on our table. She talked about the importance of living in clean places. Man the mission really teaches you so
much!! I know I’ve said this before but really Mom I’m so sorry I didn’t help out more. I learned my lesson I’ll be better!!!

               But I learned a lot from the meeting it was very inspiring. I just kept thinking well yep that was definitely what I needed to hear. President talked about being disciplined. In October we are going to start doing something called sacrifice week. Which I’ll explain next week. He said if we aren’t disciplined we will never have success in life. It made me feel
really grateful for Jan!

               The people we are teaching are soo good. One little girl named Kelly
has changed soo much!! and is preparing to get baptized this month.

               This week we had divisions with the Hermana’s that live in our same house. I went with Hermana cook and it was such a blast. She cracks me up. We saw sooo many miracles. When we started divisions I felt so strongly to pray to find 4 families. At first no one received us and then when it was 8:30 we had found 3 families. She we said okay we are
not going home until we found this family and we won’t be disobedient so pleeease show us where to go. So we started walking and saw this cute little house. We knocked on the door and a couple came out. The wife had been to church and said she always loved the LDS church. We taught her at the door step and they both accepted a date for baptism. As we walked about we were so amazed at how the Lord always answers our prayers!! Uh oh no more time I love you all I love this gospel!!!!! Read the scriptures pray and go to church always!!!!!

Hermana Fowler