Survived Transfer 1!

Buenas!

This week we had transfers but I will be staying here in Poas with Hermana Zapata! Thank goodness because I was just starting to get a hang of things around here!

The kids from last week that watched the Christmas Devotional with us, came to church yesterday! We have been teaching them and their mom who is less active and they are just so precious, its been fun!

Yesterday Marcelo told us that he didn't want to be apart of the church. He has changed his life a lot in the past few months, and he wants to follow God and Jesus Christ, but he feels like this church is too strict and demanding. He decided he wants to attend the catholic church instead.... just like 99 percent of the population here in Poas. It was really sad. But it's okay. There are other people here who are prepared for this gospel. I can feel it.

We had a really interesting experience this week. When we were contacting, we met a guy and he invited us in and we taught the 1st lesson and it went soooooooooo well. We gave him a BOM and he was so interested. We went back a few days later, and he told us that he has been reading the book a lot, and he has really enjoyed and thought it was so interesting. But his wife is super Catholic and she was not happy about him meeting with us. He asked if he could keep the book. He wants to learn more, but he wants to respect the wishes of his wife. We let him keep the book, but we aren't allowed to go back ;(. But! I am still so glad that we were able to find him and give him that very special book. 

The mission is hard, but the other day I was sitting on the dirt floor of a house, teaching about Jesus Christ and his atonement, stumbling over my words in Spanish and I had a sudden realization of HOW BLESSED I AM. I'm so thankful that I have this gospel, get to be a missionary, go through hard things, learn spnaish, and help others learn about the atonement of jesus christ here in Costa Rica. I am blessed more than I can even comprehend!

funny story; the other day we visited a less active lady who was like 60. We asked her "why did you chose to be baptized?" she said "because the missionary who taught me was VERY VERY handsome." shoot. We didn't know what to say jajaja.

con bendiciones,

hermana hill

Marcelo

yummy food

hermana johnson and our trainers!

Excerpt from Camri's email to parents: 

to answer questions....The language. ha. its still hard but sometimes I'm like wow, I kinda understand the gist of this conversation. but then sometimes, I have no idea what is going on. so it just depends on what the people are talking about and how fast they are talking! slowly but surely it is coming! 

No I don't know where that fam from Meet the Mormon lives, I was wondering that the other day actually.

 The food! I eat a lot of rice and beans but also chicken, sometimes tomales, or tortillas and bananas lots of bananas.. its really good! for breakfast we usually make eggs. For lunch we have cooks and they make us pupusas (tortilla with chicken and cheese and beans), chicken, sometimes steak, lasagna, soup. and then for dinner I usually make a turkey/peanut butter sandwhich or a casadilla. I have liked all the food here!