I can´t believe it has been 9 weeks (2 months) that I have been in the mission field. It feels like it has flown by but at the same time it feels like it has been forever.
I only have 10 minutes to write this because we had to go to Escazu (San Jose) which is about an hour and a half away depending, and this time on the way back, there was construction in the road or something, so we got back with 30 minutes to email. It kills me that i can´t read and reply to any of your emails this week. So try not to send me any next week so I can catch up and read them all.
This week was pretty good but it had its challenges as well as usual. There was a little bit of contention between me and my companion this week but we got past it and I feel really good about our companionship now. We get along really well, just sometimes my companion gets really stressed out because this is the first time he is training and a district leader, and they´re both at the same time. I thought he was mad at me or something so that´s why there was contention. The language barrier can be hard at times but I am understanding more and more and am starting to talk more and more in lessons.
This week i taught Sunday school to the recent converts to the church and it acutally went really well. People here love to talk! I pretty much asked one question and then had to try to get control back over the room because everyone wanted to talk haha. I also saw my first Costa Rican wildlife this week! I saw 2 parrots in the palm trees on the church´s property. The only wildlife i have seen besides that is dogs. There are dogs everywhere! I´m pretty sure most of them have owners but a lot don´t too.
Also, we take buses and taxis everyday. Besides the money for food and rent, thats all i spend my money on. I found out our area of Puriscal is huge. Apparently we can see the ocean at one part but Elder Batres can{t remember where it is, so we´ll have to find that at some point. We've only taught and contacted on the cities around Puriscal because it´s generally pretty hard for people to get transport. I didn't really realize it until this week, but the majority of people here are really poor. You wouldn't really be able to guess just by looking because pretty much everyone has a home with everything you need. I{ve only taught one investigator that has a dirt floor. Everyone has tin roofs though pretty much which makes it almost impossible for me to here and understand what the people are saying sometimes.
Sorry if this email is a little bit jumbled but I wanted to try to get as much as i could in with the time that i had. I'm loving my mission more and more everyday and can't wait for the point when i can speak and understand Spanish completely haha. I love you all and appreciate all of your love and support. I hope everyone has a great week this week and hopefully next week i{ll have the full hour and half i'm supposed to have to email.
Love,
Elder Smith
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