Dearest Family......
Where do i even start? what a busy wonderful week! well go chronologiccally i guess. IM AN AUNTIE!!!!!:) yay for beautiful sweet new babby lizzy! what a wonderful gift stright from heaven. i love you already sweetie pie! you to jesse sam and char bar, congratulations to your family for your new addition!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSHIE!!!!! man are you seriously 18 today? youre like huge. it doesnt matter how old you get (or how much more advanced you are in college then i am:P) youll always be my Little bubby who makes me pink milk and likes to watch the mummy until 4am. Love you so much brother and hoping that you have a great birthday! love you, Georgia and baby annie too:)
So its been kind of a party week here too. On Saturday Alfonzo was baptized!! yay:) We were so happy and so proud of him. The New Family in our Ward, the Weavers (we call them la familia gringa) let us use their house and their pool for our baptism! It was much more private and spiritual experience and it was so beautiful! Its still a Little bit far away so not a whole lot of members could come, but enough made the trip that it truly was a celebration. We even made brownies:) you wouldnt believe it but theyre a rare comodidty here in Costa Rica. During the baptism i was talking to Adrian and his fiance Carmen. He looked semi sad semi happy and I asked him what he was feeling. He said he wished that he too could be baptized right that minute but he knew he couldnt because he didnt have white clothes.......awh:) he is the best! good thing his baptism is on Saturday!
But the woes of not having a chapel always seem to continue. On Sunday Turrialba was all a flurry of political propaganda and things because it was the day to vote. They use all the schools here as the voting centers and nothing else is allowed to go on in them. if you remember weve been meeting in a highschool gym the past few week and so this was kind of a problema for us... But thanks to the restored góspel and really awesome organization the Ward was allowed to bless and partake of the Sacrament in various houses all accross Turrialba. I just miagined like 100 mini sacrament meetings going on and it was actually really beautiful experience. We live right next to the Elders and a few other members so we all got together and had a sweet Little reunión at home. That was the first time ive ever had the sacrament out of normal church. it was cool! Yay for the priesthood and worthy preisthood holders who bless the lives of their family and Friends wherever they are!
Id also like to share a quick miracle that we had this week. On wednesday we went out to this área pretty far from the center and a place we didnt know really well. while we were there i kinda sort of accidentally lost/left our cell phone on the bench at the bus stop. we didnt realize it until we were already all the way back in the center. we went all the way back out there hoping and praying that miracle of miracles it would be there...... it wasnt. we searched and called it and prayed but no luck. the next day the elders came over and told us they had found it! A lady had picked it up and brought it home and later called them to tell them that she had found it. It meant another trip way out there the next day but that was 100 times better then having to go all the way to san jose and facing the shame of telling the secretaries why we needed a new phone haha. Good people are all over the world and i am so grateful and so blessed by their kind and honest actions! this week were going to go and visit the lady who picked up and returned our phone:)
just one last thing. My whole misión ive never had to eat anything weird. Nothing! i hear horror stories of people like my daddy eating baby bird soup or iguana or intestines and pretty much the only thing ive ever eaten is chicken with bones haha.But this week i was super brave and i tried just a Little tiny piece of mondongo (cow tummy) AND octopus tentacle. It was gross. thank heavens we were with two members that love us and so i didnt have to eat much of it, but on the bright side i now have at least 1 story about crazy food to tell my grandchildren. well, i love you guys lots! please be praying for Adrian and Alfonzo this week as they prepare to be baptized and confirmed. Also pray that Hermana Mazariegos and I can have a super stellar, obedient and awesome week since it might be our last week together:( lots of prayers from Costa Rica!
All my Love,
Hermana Kugath
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