It´s hard to believe I've been in Costa Rica for 2 weeks already. It´s not necessarily going fast yet but it´s not going slow either. It still hasn´t quite hit me that I´m in a completely different country. In advance, I´m sorry but this email will be short. We got to the computers late so I only have 10 minutes to write this. I really wish I had time to read and reply to all your emails and tell you about everything that I have been doing. Next week for sure, hopefully.
Anyways... The rain!!! I thought I knew rain coming from Oregon, but I do not. Every day pretty much it´s super nice and clear and sunny in the morning (when we´re inside doing our studies) and then the afternoon and nights are always a downpour!!! I don´t have a big umbrella so I pretty much use my rain jacket to cover my backpack and my umbrella to cover my head haha. It makes it really hard to work and find people sometimes but it´s an adventure.
Spanish is still really hard haha. The first week was "deer in the headlights" to the max. The MTC was nothing compared to the field haha. Every day get´s a little bit easier though and I´m feeling a little bit more adjusted to everything. It´s hard not being able to communicate well with the people but I am coming to terms with it and I know eventually I will be able to communicate with them. I just need to be patient and do what I can for now.
I wish I could tell you about the people more. Everyone is super nice and friendly and relaxed. I´ve hardly met anyone that was flat out rude to us. A lot of people don´t let us teach them, but we still have a lot that do. The coolest thing for me is finding someone that is willing to let us talk to them and teach them without hardly any introduction. It is such a cool experience to talk religion with them and try to help them in their lives, which is why we´re here on missions.
Every day has its challenges but I´m getting more used to it and Costa Rica is beautiful even though I don´t always get to see it where I´m at. I love and miss you all and hope you have a great week this week and I'll try to tell you more and answer more questions next week!
¡Pura Vida!
Elder Smith
P.S. Sorry about the pic last week but I´m not sure how to send it so every one can see it.
Pictures!: My last meal in America for 2 years (Qdoba!), an old church in Puriscal that I live really close to, it´s super cloudy/foggy every afternoon too, they have soccer fields everywhere (we´re not allowed to play soccer or basketball here), a view from a lady´s house that feeds us every Saturday and does our laundry, me and my companion with a very subtle sunset (sorry for the selfie), we made pupusas twice this week (a common food from El Salvador that my companion knows how to make), we went to a store today called Pricesmart to get food for the month and it is literally Costco (had to get a picture with my pizza and berry smoothie)
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