Home

So After a year and a half in a foreign Country I have finally set foot on American Soil and let me just say that I am full of confusing emotions. Don't get me Wrong I love to be home But sometimes I find myself Yearning for Costa Rica and the people there. I'm sure that all Return Missionaries go through this awful state but it's different to hear about it and then actually experience it. I Don't exactly know what to do with myself. I have a weird sensation of being lost all the time now, like I should be doing something but I'm not sure quite what it is. oh well, I'm sure that it will wear off and I will get use to being a normal person again. So, also I find it hard to concentrate on any one thing for more than a few minutes so this blog will mostly be pictures because I have a short attention span (I'm sure that that too will go away soon, hopefully because it's really frustrating)

Bubbles bubbles bubbles!

 Impromptu Yoga Class

 Suck it in girls those wraps are mighty fattenin'

 CR dresses

 Raggamuffin

 um yum

 Lil sure enjoyed that mousse

 "Thanks mom" she says as she pats her pleasingly plump tummy and heads of for a dip in the pool

Hey morg whatcha doin' upthere

NOOOOOO! I don't wanna go Home!!

As for me and my horse we will serve the Lord

Okay so it´s not my horse but it lives nearby.

This week has been a lot better than the last few fruitless weeks. We have investigators with baptismal dates and we are praying that they will complete with their goals. It is already halfway through september and we are getting anxious for some baptisms.
Apart from that here are some pictures of my life.

If you look closely you will see a sad-faced kitty in my slingshot. a recent convert made me and H. Hunsaker slingshots and taught us how to shoot them.

Poor Elder Lopez got egged and floured on his birthday.

This bug is the reason they filmed Jarassic Park in Costa Rica. You can´t really tell from the photo but this Dragon Fly is about the size of my arm.

 

 My friend waving hello (seriously)

 

I just liked the colors of this Iguana

Well here´s some fuana at least. There´s not enough of that around here.

The 50 foot Jesus Statue that looks over the city. Might I add that it was a very strenuous hike to get up to him.

Notice anything in this river? maybe a 20 foot python? gross.

This is a blue morph butterfly they are from Costa Rica and can be sold in the USA for a lot of money

So also this week we went to the temple, always a good experience. It is very interesting to go through the temple in spanish. To get to the temple we had to wake up at 3 in the morning and take a little shuttle (ps I just spelled that word wrong with an i instead of a u. My comp. had to tell me to correct it as it would be inappropriate to say that word. It cracked me up though if you read the whole sentence.

This animal is a mix between a bear and a dog and has a really loud squeek. They like to eat fruit.

 Anyway, not sure where I´m typing this but it will end up somewhere. Those are some of my adventures here. And still the Gospel is Preached fighting off weird creatures and all sorts of strange animals. The Gospel is true Sigue adelante. I love you all so very much and can´t wait to see you all. 9 months is going to go by in a breath of a breeze. Anyway, love you  and PURA VIDA A TODOS! P.s. don´t mind the spelling errors I don´t have spell check and you all know I don´t function without it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Costa Rica

So this week I thought I`d jazz it up a little and blog instead of write an email. This week we recieved a contact of a family of 8 and we are hoping that things go really well with them. The work in Costa Rica is hard compared to the other central american countries. Where in Panama and Nicaragua, for example, the baptismal goal for the month is 8 or 10 our highest goal is 4 and that is a really High goal. On average a companionship will get one or two baptisms in a month and feel like they did a pretty good job. When one has more than that they feel super blessed. I´ve realized that I use the word super more than I used to when back home and that is because it is a spanglish word that people use here like we use the word like. Everyone and their dog says super.
This week we found a strange couple and taught them. She was from the United States and He was from Costa Rica, she didn´t speak or understand spanish and he only spoke a little english but he understood english pretty well. She told us as a greeting ¨I am not going to ever be a Mormon but you can practise your lesson on me if you want to¨ she then proceeded to tell her partner in really slow english about the mormons and what we believe. Most of it was pretty factual but I could tell that she had heard a lot of gossip about those ¨strange mormons¨. We taught them in Spanglish which really was wierd we would say one thing in spanish and the next in English and it went that way for about an hour. We taught mostly in spanish because he was more interested than she was.
Anyway the work is going on a little slowly but surely here are a bunch of pictures of my adventures in CR they say a picture is a thousand words so this is the longest letter I´ve ever sent.
Love you all so much thank you for your support you don´t know how much it means to me.

So a little explination about these photos
1 The Dominical Beach probably my favorite place in Costa Rica so far
2 The Nauyaka Waterfalls very pretty and a 2 hour HIKE to and back from them(yes I was really tired the next day)
3 Weird bug bites
4 I colored my desk when my Companion was sick (one can only read the book of mormon for so long)
5 my cook in San Carlos
6 Our recent convert
Okay so that may not exactly be in order but you get the idea
love you all so much
love les
PS don´t mind the spelling this computer doesn´t have english spell check and you all know that I don´t know how to spell so...

Winter Wonderland

We had the most amazing snow storm last week. There was at least 12 inches of snow. But what was really amazing is that it has been so stinking cold the snow has barely melted at all. Almost every day for the last week we have had freezing fog. Our trees are frosty and glittery it really is like a fairy land.

So the trail in the picture was made by Sox she won't walk in the grass anywhere but there. Silly Kitties. Jenny and Schauerhamer #2 wins the Blogger points.

So along with Jenny's food list I think we should add somewhere in there probably on Monday or Tuesday after Christmas a Fry Fest and the Missionary Dinner (Everyone makes something from their mission, or if you didn't go on a mission make your favorite food.)

I have been making a list of all the things that I want to do over the Christmas break most of them are games that I want to play, anyway, here it is.

1. major game of DOOM so everyone needs to bring their laptops
2. Card games: Pit, Pinocle, Hearts, Diminishing bridge, Scum, Cheat...
3. Body, Body
4. Fruit basket
5 The chair game where everyone tries to keep one person from sitting down
6. Add on story writing
7 Ice skating, tubing, snowball fight
8 Pass the sign game
9 Bladderdash- as Banner calls it
10 Name games
11. Board games: Masterpiece, Clue, Cranium...
I can't think anymore. So If you have any games you want to play over the break list them.

I think that's all. I'm so excited to be with everyone for Christmas. P.S. Shelley can you bring some pickled green beans down if you have any. I love those things.