Hey everyone!
Hope this Thanksgiving week was SICK for you guys!
Here, I had a
porkchop, and you guessed it! RICE AND BEANS! Woohoo! haha but man, rice and
beans really fills me up now that I'm used to eating it every hour of the day
haha. I really missed the turkey and gizzards (mom likes to eat those - me too).
But there's a family here that invited me to eat a late Thanksgiving dinner -
they've been to the states so they like Thanksgiving food! ME TOO :) haha
Things are
good here in Hatillo. People are starting to blast-off fireworks like crazy -
that's what's big here in CR during Christmas time. I'm more used to the quiet and chill Christmas at home with the family but hey, I don't think I'm in
Kansas any more. Time to get used to that. And I had my first tamale of the Christmas season (I've had them before) and guess what? Still not a huge fan. haha but it's food - I'll eat it.
Speaking of
food, I'm going to eat both pig and chicken feet here soon. And I'm gonna eat
something called a tepezcuintle which looks like a rat and tastes like a
pig - cool huh? haha and it doesn't have a tail either. I've eaten so many
weird meats here. Iguana, gorrobo, a weird mountain goat thing, a fish that
tastes like beef and a bunch of stuff haha. So yeah, it's pretty cool.
Finally got
to put on the bloody mask from the movie, Scream. Mom never let me dress up like that for
Halloween... until now hehe ;)
Still trying
to find ways to get big again - everyone that knows me always says "elder
Stott you're getting skinny man" hahahahaha... SHUTUP! I know haha. Maybe
if I eat a bunch of tepezcuintle I can get beefed up... We'll see. Or I'll just eat a bunch of turtle eggs!
My comp is
still yodeling with the guitar. Man, I realize every day how short he actually
is.. We measured and I'm more than a foot taller than him but he's totally a man at the
same time... He shaves like 5 times a day otherwise he'll grow a duck dynasty
looking beard :)
We had an international day of service here in Costa Rica. I got to mow a lawn of an elementary school...... with a machete haha. TICO STYLE! Chopeando, as they call it here! And I really suck at it.. But I love getting the opportunity to serve others. That's what the true love of Christ is.
Since it was
Thanksgiving I just wanna say some of the things that I'm thankful for. I'm
thankful for so many things in life: food, football, college football, guitar,
piano, singing, my mission, my friends, my chance to study at BYU, the people I
meet here in Costa Rica, my cat, the USA, the Restored Gospel of Jesus
Christ, the authority we have to perform saving ordinances that we do in the
Lord's Temples, the opportunity to repent, and many other things. The list goes
on and on. But none of that truly compares to how thankful I am for my family.
I'm so thankful that my parents were sealed in the temple for time and all
eternity and that I can be with my family forever. Not just in this life.
Nothing matters more to me than them. I love you guys :)
Hope everyone
has a great week. Be safe and smile!
Pura
Vida,
Elder Stott
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