Costa Rica - Tuesday Report

Costa Rica news (Tuesday)

Emily and Maxine led the group in devotions about how something good often comes out of something we don’t expect or something we consider unfortunate. Certainly our days have not gone completely as planned, but we have made spectacular progress in our construction efforts. The really hard workers have almost finished laying the block (and mortaring them in place) for the walls. The other workers (Emily, Wendy, and Mary with assistance from Phoebe), finished sifting the sand, removing the larger pebbles. Wendy led us in singing the hymn about ‘shifting sands’ as we worked. The food continues to be absolutely delicious – fresh strawberries today, bought from the strawberry farm next door to the Children’s Home. And we also have papaya, bananas, avocado, tomatoes, watermelon…

In spite of many suggestions to remember to wear sunscreen, 7 of the 11 members of the work team are suffering from sunburns – perhaps fooled by thinking they can’t get burned through cloudy skies at this elevation.

Several members of the group are working actively on improving their Spanish speaking skills, much to the entertainment of the ‘tico’ workers (we are the ‘gringos’). In fact, one of the children in the first Children’s Home (Casa Esperanza), told Maxine “I speak English – you can stop trying to speak Spanish”. This nine-year-old girl shared this in an attempt to be helpful – not to be snotty.

We are all having a great time and look forward to another productive day at the work site! Special greetings to all of our prayer partners. We loved your letters!