this past weekish :)

Yesterday was a longgggggg day… which is funny because mondays are our Sabbaths. Score International (the program I'm doing the GAP year through) has a campus in Coronado (a city here about 15 minutes away from where I live). It's actually the main campus for mission teams working through Score. The campus is pretty new; today we did a lot of cleaning. Since Score is a big sports ministry they had a warehouse with tons of containers of uniforms and sports equipment… all of the other boxes were full of medical supplies.. LOTSSS of medical supplies. There were about 4 girls and we had to clean all of the boxes (dust), organize, label and put them in a new warehouse. I'm hoping to go back next monday. This place is going to look sweet if we can get everything out of there and cleaned up. It was an old bar, and right now there is just a bunch of junk piled in it. There's even a room in the back where this sweet old man lives. He showed me around and gave me this knitted decoration thingy. I don't really know what it is, but I was so thankful. He's such a joyful guy. I mean, again I didn't understand too much, but I did catch that his wife died in 2002 and wasn't a believer. So that was sad, but he was so quick to claim his victory in Christ. Yeah. He's really awesome

It was about a 2 mile walk from the bus stop to Coronado, but ohh my goodness you guys it's so pretty. I didn't take my camera, but I will next time. There's just something about the way the sun sits here that makes everything seem so… real. Alive… or maybe just beautiful. Eden-esque. 

After lunch we played ultimate frisbee. So fun. I was about dead last night.

In Costa Rica it's not illegal to copy movies, so street vendors copy them and sell them for about 2 bucks. I have been buying disney movies in spanish; they help SO much. 

Sunday night in Villa Church, John touched a little bit on expectations. Everyone has come here with some expectation.. whether it be to totally overturn the streets of San Jose or be doing ministry 5 times a week… we've all brought something. So.. now that we're a little under two months in, we're just realizing a lot more that this year is a season of growth for us. We barely know anything. We're still going to have some amazing opportunities to love on people and tell them about Jesus… but the major life changing is going to be within the group.

Internet is about to shut off so I need to wrap this up, but...

Sunday I went to a different church to sing with 3 other girls. A couple of weeks ago they were all singing one night in their room, I heard them… came and joined… and now we always sing songs with four part harmonies. It's awesome. So, this church invited us to sing. We sang "Your Grace is Enough For Me" in English and "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" in Spanish. It was awesome.. and really cool getting to see another church. I understood more than 5 words this time! I'll try to post a video… IF I can. Love you guys.