This last year has flown by

It's hard to believe that almost a year ago we were packing up our apartment, quiting our jobs and putting the items we saved into storage at my parents house. But here we are with just one month left of our time in Costa Rica. Part of us is going to miss the beautiful beaches, blue sky and great friends but part of us is ready to say goodbye to car issues, bumpy roads and constantly sweating.  Everywhere you go there is the pros and cons. And I am sure our the next chapter in our life will come with an all new set of them.

When you live in a country you don't always take advantage of it so now that we know we have a limited time left we have been trying to fit in all those things we have wanted to see. Here are a few pictures of Jehovah's beautiful creations we have been enjoying lately.

Rio Celeste. The volcanic minerals in one river meet with minerals in another river and it creates this awesome blue river.

Waterfall about 30 minutes from our house

Armadillo that has been hanging out in our yard

Awesome beach with clear water and tons of sea shells everywhere

One of the coolest things about being in a transitional hall is that we get tons of visitors from all over. It has been so fun showing them around and watching them see Costa Rica for the first time. Once you have lived here awhile things become part of everyday life and you don't even think twice about it.  So watching them see monkeys for the first time or having a cold coconut to drink on service break has been so fun for us. The service meeting this week talked about hospitality. Living here you not only get to show hospitality a lot but you also get to experience it by your worldwide brotherhood. These are memories we will cherish forever and the friends we have made we will never forget.

This week at meeting there were only 9 in attendance. So many of the friends got colds. I don't think Brian ever even sat down all meeting. I was impressed we still had 8 bible highlight comments which was pretty awesome especially on a reading which was a little harder.

 

Also last week Brian and I had an Asian child on the service meeting part. Too bad he was only 8 years younger than me. Hehe! This is what happens when you have a shortage of elders and children in your hall.

So I have to tell you about the other elder in our hall. His name is Bill Henderson. Bill is one of a kind. He has stories that you won't believe even happened. He is probably the best surfer in our hall as well. And I forgot to mention he is 73 years old. So the other day we go with Bill to a waterfall. Bill is leading the pack to get there leaving all of us "young ones" in the dust. Then he is doing cannon balls off the waterfall. He is the biggest kid in our hall. He was even doing chicken fights in the pool the other day with the 20 year olds.

And Two bug stories to end it. So we have lots of geckos at our house. We even have a few babies ones that are pretty cute. Or at least I thought they were cute until one day I am just laying on the couch, and the bugs had already been bugging me a lot that night, when all of a sudden something lands on my bare chest. Stupid little gecko decided to jump off the wall And happens not to land on my shirt but my bare skin. Not what I was expecting so there may have been a freak out moment til it flew off.

And here is the spider that came out of Brian's shoe when he tried to put on his shoe barefoot without checking his shoes first. Yikes!

The sunset we saw while surfing and a beautiful rainbow was on the other side. One of my favorite moments!