Hola amigos, how it is in the States? Today I am going to talk about some church topics, going to the temple and some things that happened this week.
The first day we came to church when we didn’t know if we were going to stay in the ward, the Bishop told us that he had been praying for us and had callings in mind for Mom and Dad. We get that everywhere we travel to but I guess God needs us to stay here and help this ward. Lots of member have helped us settle in by finding us a car, furniture and a house. In return we have given people rides, visited members, and cleaned the church and we hope to do much more. We are pretty close to the Partio family, William and Massiel, who sell us Papusas every Saturday (Muy delicioso! But are actually El Salvadorian food). Massiel is also our seminary teacher and doesn’t speak any English.
About a month after we got here Dad was called as the young men’s president, Mom was called as the Primary pianist/teacher (the church’s program for children) and I was called as the Second assistant to the Bishop. In Latin America they have a hard time finding committed people to give callings and getting people to come to church regularly.
Last week we had to opportunity to go to the temple here in San Jose. A temple is where we preform saving ordinances for the living but mostly for the dead. I got to preform baptisms for the dead (by proxy) in Spanish which was pretty cool. I thought I was doing pretty well until my friend who baptized after me sped right through the prayer in half the time I did. Spanish after all is one of the fastest languages and the names are quite difficult to pronounce. Most of the temple workers speak English because they were called form the States to serve in Costa Rica.
After lots of I practicing I was also able to bless the Sacrament (An ordinance that completes the repentance process) and have been doing so for the past few weeks.
As I mentioned before Sean and I attend seminary in the evening. Seminary meets three days a week at 6pm and there are about 4 other students that attend. Sean and I also do online seminary so Spanish seminary is so we can learn Spanish and spend more time with the youth. I have to do double work because I have to translate the material and then write in the answers to the questions not to mention answering the teachers questions in Spanish.
We are settling quite nicely in our new house though we still need a microwave. After a week of living in our house we managed to clog 2 of the 3 toilets. Apparently, the pipes in Costa Rica can’t hold toilet paper, requiring you to put it in the trash instead, which is a hard habit to break. Dad gets quite angry when someone forgets this new rule. We also hired a woman from our ward named Nancy to be our maid. She comes for about 6 hours a day to clean, cook, do laundry, and watch the little kids. Now we only have to clean up after breakfast and dinner. We have to careful that we don’t become too spoiled but it is nice.
It was a pretty fun week as we try to find our place in our new ward and figure out a schedule for each day. I want to try to learn Karate or something like that but I am going to have to wait until we take some intense Spanish classes. Aaron also had his birthday on Monday and turned 11, so happy birthday to Aaron!!
Well folks that’s it for today and thanks for suffering through my emails😉
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