Hello all of you again!My past few weeks have been hectic and there is no end in sight. J
Last weekend, I went with a group of 10 others including our leader to the town of Alajuela for the weekend to do ministry. We arrived Friday night and settled into our host homes. Saturday we split into teams and went around to different parks and markets and did evangelism. God really worked in hearts that day; around 24 people were saved! We went back to the church for lunch, then we hung out at a park for the afternoon with the church to play volleyball. That evening, the church showed the movie Up. Sunday morning, we put on the Lifehouse skit, then one of the GAP students gave the message. We made such wonderful connections at this church that they invited us back! We send a group of three this past weekend and are sending a group about every week until the end of the year!
We also sent a team to an ingenious people group this weekend also. This group of people worship the earth.
My other church is El Faro en Los Guidos, which the poorest past of San Jose. This coming weekend, my church group, along with some help from the rest of the GAP students, are doing a carnival in Los Guidos for about 300-400 kids. Today we are having a bake sale in a nearby park to raise money for supplies. Later, a friend from our church in Alajuela is coming to hang out with us for the evening.
Next Wednesday, our whole groups is leaving for Panama. I can’t believe it’s time for our mission trip yet! Time is flying!
Thank you for your support and prayers.

A New Year, a New Semester

Hello from Costa Rica! I have been back for two weeks and already exciting things are happening! I will try to be a more faithful blogger this semester than I was last semester.
I spent my first week here at a Word of Life camp in Guanacaste, CR. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Word of Life Institute, it is an Bible school with locations in New York, Florida, and Argentina. They also run camps for children up to 18. In Costa Rica, the camp runs for 4 weeks, however, my group only stayed for one. We helped in the kitchen and with general prepping and setting things up, but in our free time we got to be regular campers! It was fun to go back to being a camper! We made a lot of great connections at the camp. A lot of the friends we made at camp live in and around San Jose; we are already planning things to do with them! It really helped my Spanish to be so immersed as soon as I returned. And it was awesome to see a lot of lives changed at camp. There were at least 25 that were saved at camp the one week we were there!
Classes resumed this past week. I feel I have a renewed motivation to learn Spanish from being at camp. There are so many people I want to connect with, but can’t because of the language barrier. I am really praying that God opens my mind and really helps me to understand and retain this language.
This semester I will be having 4 Bible classes as well as my Spanish classes. One is on Bible Doctrine Theology, one is on Missions around the world, one on the book and Ephesians (which is in Spanish by the way with a translator) and one on the Old Testament. I am very excited for these classes.
I am going to be getting many, many ministry opportunities this semester. My first one is February 12-14. I’m in a group with 9 others and we will be going to another church about an hour away to minister to the people in the church and the surrounding town. Then in March and April, I will be taking two trips to a group of ingenious people. These people live an hour away from civilization; we will need to walk or ride horses for an hour to reach them. And we’ll be sleeping in hammocks and bathing in a stream; it will be quite the adventure I’m sure. J
My friends and I are also planning different fundraisers for the churches we’re involved with, as well as a girls’ purity retreat here at the Villa for the girls in our youth groups. I am sure this semester will fly by, as busy as I’m going to be.
Thank you all so much for your support and prayers!