CYOD - Catch Your Own Dinner
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I hope
everyone is loving their summer so far! Now I'm in a hot zone (90+ degrees almost everyday) so I feel like I'm in summer with you guys (even though it's
technically cold and winter here haha weird)
Man, I got here and I fell in love with Guanacaste again. It's totally different than San Jose and Heredia but I love it. It's 5 hours (in bus) northwest of where I just was. It's different in that its SUPER HOT and people don't wear very much clothes here, dang it. It's also a lot harder to find stuff that you can find easily in other parts of Costa Rica.
I
love being Zone Leader here with Elder Vorwaller. It's funny because we're so completely
different but we spend all day laughing and working hard. You literally sweat
all day here in Guanacaste but after a couple of days I got used to it again.
We brought 26 investigators to church as zone which is really good compared to
the past average of 10-13! We're super stoked to be here and to work with our
missionaries! Sunday church is awesome because it's at 11:00 here, so we can pass by
investigator's houses to invite them to come to church. It's a super sick ward!! Lots of gringos come to
church here while they're on vacations which is nice because I get some time with
my culture and language - it's a really weird feeling because you miss home but
at the same time, you remember how cool Costa Rica is haha :)
Just a little
run-down of what ZL's do, so we're responsible for our whole zone (20
missionaries). Also in charge of the 2 District Leaders and we have to give
lots of follow-up with them. We help lead the whole zone and have meetings with the Stake Presidency and President Laboriel every month here in
Guanacaste. Sometimes we travel to San Jose for meetings. It's a lot of responsibility but I love it because I get to help other
missionaries out. It's a little stressful but fun because ZL's can make a huge impression on missionaries. I hope that my impression is one that's firm with obedience, hard-working but fun and chill at the same time. So far, so good.
Also, there's
two zones in our stake (Estaca Liberia) and Elder Navas and Elder Escobar are
the other ZL's here so we always see each other! Elder Navas
started the mission with me in Alajuelita.
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| Me with Elder Escobar and Elder Navas at the internet cafe |
Guess What?? I
killed a chicken this week and we ate it yesterday! It was at our cocinera's
house - it's pretty cool because her house has an outdoor kitchen, but like
rustic, and she cooks with fire. It's really yummy. So, I had to grab the chicken, tie it up
by its feet and slice the throat to drain the blood. I was wearing a plastic
bag because after you kill the chicken, it flaps around and blood flies around
everywhere. Talk about the Guanacaste experience! That family is so cool
and the little kids love me so I'm sure I'll be sending lots of pics in the next few
weeks from there!
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| What's for dinner?? |
I
bought a little toy top that you throw with a string because all the kids play
with it in the street. So I've become famous here with the little kids here :)
One thing I've really learned on my mission. I've realized that prayer is one of the most powerful
things we have in our lives. It changes lives and is a way we can show our
faith to our Heavenly Father. Bad things happen when we stop praying so make
sure we pray everyday! The Lord truly listens to our prayers and answers them.
It's always in His time and in His way but He ALWAYS answers. He heals broken
hearts and lifts heads that hang low. I love the concept of prayer and invite
everyone to work on making our prayers more personal rather than scripted and repetitive. We just need to talk to Him like we talk to our parents. I love this
Gospel and everything it offers in our lives. I've seen the blessings in my life
and I love having the opportunity to share it with other people!
Well,
hope you guys are all doing well!
I
miss you guys tons! But just know that I'm loving it here. It's hard but I'm
happy! Pretty tired BUT HAPPY. :) The church is true y pura vida!
- Elder Stott
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because through them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Costa Rica? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Costa Rica in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QFSToRNt8kqKAPz4pPEaxS7u2Tean6GO/edit
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