Wednesday, November 17, 2010

CO visit and some good times


















We hope all our friends are doing good. We just heard about the windstorm in seattle, so we thought we could send some Costa Rican sunshine your way.

We have been really busy for the past couple of weeks, and especially last week with our CO visit. Him and his wife were such a treat for our congregation. So encouraging, and as always great talks that you walked away feeling uplifted, but at the same time with specific things to work on.


Corina and Nyah had an assignment during the visit, and they did really good. So on the day prior (because there is really no good restaurants in Santa Cruz) we went to the beach and had a nice dinner. Nyah was making sandcastles and we could hear the waves crashing. We got to have dessert, Corina got the best one I think...Chocolate Lava Flow...

On the final day of his visit, a brother who has a little cabina on top of this mountain, invited us and about 20 other brothers and sisters. This is the picture where you can see forever, and the sunset. In the night time we could see the big city of Liberia which is about 50 miles from where we were at. And the picture just doesn't do it justice. We were able to pick some sugar cane, and use machetes to cut it down, bananas, and we just had a really good time. The brothers cooked up food, and we had coffee.

There was a couple and his wife got sick, and they had to leave early. Because of the shortage of cars in the area that meant we had to take 15 people down in 2 cars...So you can see one picture of the brothers and sisters in our car. But you don't see Corina, Nyah and myself sitting in front. So we had a total of 9 people. But we all made it home!

We are continuing to enjoy our time, it has been going by really fast. Our neighbors just brought 2 of their dogs, so Nyah is loving them. She keeps buying dog food, to feed to all of the poor, skinny dogs around the area.

We hope you all are doing well, and we hope to hear from you soon.



Friday, November 5, 2010

El aseo (hall cleaning)









Here are some of the pictures from last months hall cleaning. As you can see in the parking lot we had quite a few weeds to pull, and every month the sisters take out the chairs and mop the floor, and clean all the windows.

We have also started to make a little block wall around the kingdom hall because during the rainy season they lose about 6 inches of dirt a year, so the brothers decided it was time to build a little block wall. That is Eli with the sunglasses (him and his wife are going to be here for 2 years helping out), and Sady in the back behind Eli digging away.

Nyah found another langosta during the cleaning and that is what she is holding in her hand, she feels pretty brave when it can't fly around and stick to you.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

A little fun at the beach


On Monday's we get to have time to clean our place, and then have some relaxation. Last Monday we were able to go the beach. We went up north a little bit to Playa Grande. Its a nice surfing beach, and Nyah had her boogey. The waves were not too big, so it was good for me. I don't like to get tossed very much.




Here are some more pictures of some of our territory and the animals we see...It seems like there is always some big critters in our backyard. Tonight we saw some langosta (big locusts) about the size of my hand. They flew into our kingdom hall the other night, and landed on my pant leg...also landed on a sister from the states, but she didn't scream...Always an adventure with all the critters. Hope you enjoy the pictures.




A brother found a orange fruit that was kind of like a mango...So we decided to take a break.





Thursday, October 14, 2010

One month, it has flown by...

We can't believe we have been in Costa Rica for 1 month. Crazy fast...We have been really busy. The service has been going great. Corina has started a couple of studies, and we were doing about 10 other studies for a couple who has been here for 10 months who went back to New York for a couple of weeks.

Our service is about 3 hours of walking from 8am to 11am. We usually have sometime to eat lunch and then we go and do some studies. When we get back we are pretty exhausted...Here is what Nyah looks like after...


One evening we were really craving some Curried Chicken, and Roti. So Corina decided to make some. It turned out so good...Here are some pics of Nyah helping with the Roti, and the big pot of curried chicken.



The weather is getting hotter, which has been nice, but you forget that it just gets hotter and hotter. We are still supposed to be in the rainy season until the first of november, but it hasn't rained here for about 8 days...So we are enjoying the sun.

We hope you all are doing well, take care!

Monday, October 4, 2010

Preaching with the monkeys




So we are able to put up some pictures finally...We have a really busy week out in service. It went by really fast. The rains have been pretty strong in the afternoon, but in the morning it is usually fairly sunny, and warm.

Last Saturday we went to a place about 10 kilometers on this dirt road. We got to a plaza, and then we just started walking. It was so nice, because we didn't get rained on at all. Towards the end we were down by a river, and we started to hear the howling from the monkeys...Nyah took a video. Here are some shots of the service group we were with as well.

There is also some pictures of the German Shepherd Nyah liked, and a horse she wanted to ride

Hope everybody is doing good!








Friday, September 24, 2010

First days in Costa Rica





We have arrived to Costa Rica! We got to our place last week, and we had our first meeting on Thursday. It was so nice to see all the friends again.

On Friday we went to the beach, we were pretty spent after the travel from the airport to our congregation which is about 4.5 hours by car, about 7 by bus, but we didn't do the bus route this time :-). So we took Friday off, and just relaxed, and jumped in the waves.

On Saturday we went out preaching in the moutains behind where we live. We were able to talk to some people that only see the witnesses once ever year or two. On the top of the mountains they have 2 towers for cell phones. It was pretty funny the brother with his cell phone looked to see if he had service, and like most other places in Santa Cruz, he still had NO bars...PURA VIDA :-)


We could see the pacific ocean from on top, and also about 50 kilometers down the beach on both sides. It was an amazing view. The white part in the pictures are the waves from the ocean.

Here are some of the pictures Nyah took because we forgot our camera...We had to cross this little bridge because of the rainy season, the river was too high to cross with our car...Probably could of but I didn't pay for the extra car insurance on the rental...Senor Barato o in english El Cheapo

We will post more pictures when we can...