Your love is deeper than any ocean

On the tenth, Justine and I went to the beach with Matt, Brooke, and their family along with another family. It was such a pretty beach the water was crystal clear. And the sand felt so nice to walk upon. I just like the feeling when you are walking towards the water and the wave just starts to hit your feet. And as the waves go away you can feel your feet start sinking in the sand. It makes me think about the song of Christ "The Solid Rock I Stand", and how all other ground is sinking sand. The beach is one of my favorite places to go I just like admiring God's creation, I just stand in awe it's so beautiful I'm just reminded of another song that has the lyrics, "Your love is deeper than any ocean" in it. When looking at the ocean I just think about how vast it is, and I think about how vast the love of God, and it's deeper than anything that we can comprehend. As I go deeper into the ocean the waves are pretty strong, so it's hard to start to walk deeper into the ocean but once you are there it is so much fun just letting the waves carry you away. When I was taking a break and just sitting on the beach one of the boys from the family comes up to me, and he looks so cute with his little life vest on, his name is Andre. When I asked him how old he was he was like 2 1/2 not just 2 but he made sure to tell me that he was two and a half, I thought that it was so funny. Through out the day I went from swiming in the water to playing in the sand with the kids. One of the times I was helping the kids beary themselves in the sand. Later on, when I was swiming, Justine saw this creature that looks like a jelly fish but it is called porchagees manna wars, which was only a small one so I quickly started getting out of the water. I ran into Matt telling him about what we saw, and he said to be careful, because when he was snorkling just a little while before and he had gotten stung. Then a little while later, come to find out that Dave, along with two of his sons got stung. What started out being a good day at the beach ended up being not so good so we left shortly after with our stings, and me and Justine sporting our sunburns.

The road traveled

I was walking down the street yesterday, and i was just thinking about how good that God is and how thankfull that i,am that i have been given the opertunity to come down hear, and serve him. That this time last year I never would have thought that i would be hear in Costa Rica. It just goes to show that man plans out things, but it is the lord that directs his steps. He takes the desires of are heart and usees them acourding to his will and purpose, and in a way that we could never think that he would. As i countinued walking down the road i went by this work area and there is a real friendly man who is always out there working, who always says Ohla, but that day he said hi, and it through me off, so i said Chow back to him. It was just so neet  that he was talking to me in english even if it was just a hi, it was the fact that he was makeing the attempt to speak to me in English.  Today during bible clube i was doing worship with the kids there, and there where some words that i could not understand, but it just brought me so much joy doing the worship with thm, and the hand mottions, and seeing all of there smilieing faces. Pastor Phill's daughter Eden who is six was siting next to me she is so cute she saw me trying to sing the songs in Spanish, and she asked me if i wanted her to teach me the song in english, So i was like shure. After worship we broke up into groups acording to the age groups, i was with the younger kids which is a age group that i like, beacuse it's the age level that i have thought Sunday school to. There are a few kids in that age group who act up alot, but it makes me think and wounder what there home life is like. One of the boys in the group  Gabrel, i seem to conect with God, has given me a heart the  kids, but for him i partimcularly have a heart for.  

Laughter lifes mediecen.

　So day two, in my journey in Costa Rica i started out the morning attempting to make pancakes for Justine just lets say it did'nt go very we'll. lol the storey of my life i can't go a day with out a moment that's when you need to just laugh at your self lifes to short not to. To make the morning better i had some Mango i just love fresh fruit in other countries. For lunch me Michala and Justine went over to Matt, and Brooks house for lunch, there I got to meet Brook and the rest of the family, Audrey who is six years old, Ethan who is eleven, Esabel who is nine, Audrey was a little shy at first but it did'nt take long for her to warm up to me. During lunch i got to hear about Matt, and Brooks testamoney of how they ended up in Costa Rica. I just like hearing about what God does in the life of others. Latter on was the kids program it was parents night, the night was spent with all differen't activities towards the end i got to play a game with one of the boys Gabrel, who speaks in Spanish very fast. Since i realy  don't know any  Spanish  it's hard to understand him. The game involved using two padles  and a pin pong ball, the object  of the game is to pass the pin pong ball back and forth, and to get it into the cup, which we where not able to do but we had fun any way. For dinner we had rice that had sea food in it which was realy good along with french fries, and beans,  all of it was  realy yummy. So that pretty much sums up day two in Costa Rica.   

The first days advanture in Costa Rica

The first night that I got here I saw my first cockroach I asked Justine if it was a beetle but she said no it's a cockroach. The next day first thing in the morning I woke up because I thought that I had  heard Justine screaming but later I figured out that it was a rooster. The rest of the day was spent at the church. The head staff member Matt who over sees the Potters Field Kids program with his wife Broke, had introduced me to the kids. I'm trying to learn more Spanish so I can better comunicate with the people here especically the kids. When I attempt to speak Spanish it dosen't always go well but they are patient in teaching me. I have had some funny instances so far. One of the boys had his hand raised because Victor one of the staff members had asked him a question, and he said, "Yo" so I replied "Yo!" to him because I thought that he was saying yo as in, yo what's up. Michaela just laughed at me and said what he was saying me. At dinner time I pointed to one of the boys cups and said "Bebe" which in spanish means drink but I guess here they don't call a drink that. I knew this because the boy looked at me and laughed to his friend he probably thought that I was crazy or as they would say it loco. During the kids program I was walking around observing every thing that was going on. And helping out Justine, and Victor a little bit in the kitchen, but mostly watched to see how things are done. I got to do the hokey pokey with the kids it was so much fun. Matt was teaching it to them in English. They seemed to enjoy it, I know I did. It just brought me so much joy just to see all there smiling faces, you could tell from that how excited they were. So that was my first day I'm so glad to be here I can't wait to spend more time with the kids. And to get to know the staff members here better.