Dearest..... (fill in your names here:) haha)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!! yes! one of the best holidays of all of November. what an excellent holiday. we just get to stuff our selves with moms delicious work and say how thankful we are for the heaps of blessings we received from our loving Heavenly Father. I'm personally a huge fan of this holiday and although it doesn't make much sense here I hope you all know that I will still be celebrating here in Costa Rica (maybe with just a little less food then normal..:() to start off let me just share a short list of the things I'm thankful for....(in no particular order obviously;))
1. Loving celestial and earthly parents
2. a knowledge of my savior and what He's done for me
3. the opportunity to be a missionary
4. the book of mormon and the bible (they're tied)
5. little brothers and older sisters (they're also tied...haha)
6. nieces!!!!!!!! they probably should be higher on the list actually.
7. brothers and sisters in law.
8. skype and email
9. marshmallow mateys
10. FRIENDS:) I love you guys
11. boots!
12. pillows
13. prophets.
14. hymns and pianos
15. MY COMPANION
16. laughter
17. Th church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
18. the priesthood
19. Christmas!!!!!
20. hot water to shower
21. temples
.... the list could go on and on and on and if I didn't want to bore you guys I'd keep going. but those are just a few of the things that come to mind right now. so lets talk about what happened this week!
We've been working with one less active named Douglas. He's a crack up. he's suuuper smart about everything but he wont stop smoking. We always drop by just to visit him a minute so he knows we still love him even as a "sinner" ha ha :). This week we went by and he called out to us and said he wanted to teach us something super "tuanis" thats like cool here. haha so he brought out a few shoe laces tied together and started teaching us those hand games like cats cradle and Jacob's ladder, its been years since I've played anything like that! it was fun because we got to just chat a little with him and we learned some awesome tricks too!
Another day we went up to dos cercas with a member to find a friend of hers. We went to the house and her daughter said she wasnt there. Estefani (the member) asked if there was anyone else we could go visit instead so we took her to see Yulesi. we walked in her house and in the front living room was the friend that we had been looking for! We had a great lesson with them and as we were leaving Estefani told us that she had prayed so hard that we would be able to find her friend and when she wasn't home she had been really sad. But she knew Heavenly Father answers prayers and it was confirmed by our little miracle!
My story of the week is about Francisco. We found him last Sunday and have been trying to refind him all week. Yesterday he called us and asked if we could come over because he wanted to talk about the Word of God. We took him to a members house and had a really great lesson about the Plan of Salvation (he even read the pamphlet and everything so he was prepared!). it was fabulous and as we were leaving the member's son walked in so they got to chatting a little. About 2 minutes into the conversation Francisco told him "Im getting prepared to be baptized. I've never been baptized before and I know I need to be, so they're (us!) helping me". it was so coolio!!!!!! Anyways, the members we were with invited him to choir practice because that's where they were going right the. And he went!! We sang christmas songs for 2 hours. It was an awesome day!
Anyways this coming week is going to be really special. I hope everyone can feel the importance of Thanksgiving and being grateful for our many many innumerable blessings! And after eating a huge slice of pumpkin pie in my behalf I hope you can all get into the spirit of Black Friday and ask yourselves "que mas me falta?" (what lack i yet?) but spiritually speaking of course!:) I love you all and am extremely grateful for your love support and prayers. you're in my heart and prayers!
All my love,
Hermana Kugath
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