Changing Gears

I am sorry I have not been as faithful to posting this blog here in Costa Rica. It is definitely a different trip then Honduras. In many ways we have a lot more free time, fellowship time; however we have longer days (We leave around 7:30 and do not arrive back till 9:00-10:00) and only have internet back at the hotel. So today I am going to play a little catch up and I will tell you about Wednesday and Thursday

Each day we have followed the same schedule. I did switch it up slightly on Wednesday because I decided to go door knocking instead of to the VBS. Wednesday was an amazing day Cristian filled the baptistry because he had faith that we would need it. Although we did not use it that day we have had a women with interest, I am continuing to pray for God to break her heart and give her life over to God.

In devo today Diane talked about Women's Role in the church. She used adult coloring pages in her lesson. As she spoke and discussed things we all were coloring these pages. At the end of the lesson she said this: "When you began there were only lines, these lines are the men, they are the structure. The frame around the picture is God he keeps everything together. Finally you added the color to the picture, women are the color the are creative and add life.

Door knocking in the rain.

 Delicious bread!

Thursday was our final day at the Purral church. It was a hard thing to say goodbye to these people that everyone has grown so close to.

Diane had planned a wonderful thing for the women's class Thursday. I started the class out by leading the song "Make Me A Servant" and Diane discussed the verse Matthew 20:26-28.

26 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and 27 whoever wants to be first must be your slave- 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. 

With all of that in mind and all the serving that the women of the church in Purral had done for us we wanted to take some time to serve them, so we gave them a Spa Day. This by far is one of my favorite things that we do on trips like this.

In our stations we had the following things:

• Brown Sugar Foot Scrub
• Rince/Massage Foot Gel
• Hand/Neck/Back Massages
• Manicure/Pedicure 

To end we had this poem read:

 My Costa Rican parents.

Louise and Maria

I was going to write about Friday as well but the internet is not cooperating. I will update more hopefully tonight or in the morning.