I'm living in the book of Acts!!!!!!!!

Oh. My. Word. This is so incredible. God is absolutely astounding. I don't really know where to start. I guess I can start on Friday when Dad and I hung out with tons of little lids during Julies exercise class. Dad really fell in love with this 3-year old boy named Chi-chi who is such a big man in a tiny tiny body. He is so lovable. :) We gave all of them piggy-backs and played games, and had too much fun. By the end of all or piggy-back races, I think Dad had lost 43lbs. I'm very glad that Dad got to spend some time here. We had tons of fun together.

On Sunday, Rodney, Cindy, Steve, Dad, and I went to the beach. It was a 2 hour drive and it was soo hot, but so worth it! We are all sun burnt now. The waves were HUGE! and disorganized, so Rodney and Steve couldn't do too much surfing. But we found a lot of shells and cool drift wood and had an awesome day! Its weird for me to swim in October! During the long drive, we saw alligators and Iguanas and huge wild parrot-type birds, which I couldn't catch on camera :(.

 



Sunday night, the river running through the valley (that is Los Anonos) flooded over and about 6 houses were lost and tons were ruined. They still cannot find one person so they think he drowned in the river. One woman who has 4 kids across the street from the river lost absolutely everything. The river was about 5 feet deep on the street. I am sure many people down there didn't sleep Sunday night because they were trying to fix their houses and gather their stuff. But it was amazing, because as soon as we heard about it, we started praying, and Cindy prayed for the rain to stop and within minutes it did. The police only had the bridge blocked off for maybe an hour or so. So that night we went down for a little while to assess the damage. Our close friends Adriana, Maline, and Jacqueline, (not that I know how to spell)  house's were wet, but fine.

Monday morning we all got up super early and Dad's taxi came to take him to the airport. It was a long day! We brought down tons of rice and beans and bread for all the people that no longer have anything (even though they didn't have much to start with). We asked God to multiply it and he did! It was amazing! We fed about 45 people. When we all got back, Rodney decided to start the Sandwich give-away. God told him to give away 2000 sandwiches, so we went to the store and got enough for 200. When we went down to give away 100 for lunch, Jacqueline was already there with rice and sausage. So we decided to serve that first, as it was hot. Jacqueline told us that she started off with 2 small bags of rice this morning, so she prayed over it and asked God to multiply it, and we served over 50 people with just that rice! We were totally in shock when we heard this! He is multiplying so much, its especially cool to see the woman's faith be, too!! So while we were serving Lunch, it started raining, so Julie and I prayed for it to hold off for an hour. And exactly 1 hour it held off, just in time for us to get to the door.Julie was sooo excited. I think throughout the day Julie and I were down there 6 or 7 times. That hill gets bigger every time!!!!

And its only the first day.......

Well its only the first day, but for some reason there is alot to write about. Because of the egg man going through town yelling "HUEVOS, HUEVOS, HUEVOS" into a loud speaker, I got up at 6am. After some awesome prayer, Julie (who speaks AMAZING Spanish!) took me down to the community for her woman's exercising group. It was awesome and the relationship she has with the women  and their Ninos blows me away. After only a month! There was lots of little kids there, and one little girl named Kalin wanted me to paint her nails, take it off, paint them again, take it off....ect. for an hour! Needless to say, I now know my colors in Spanish pretty well. Rodney showed me the new iglesia (church) building that we are renting, which is sooo cute. Steve and Luis are working on painting that right now. The language is coming back to me better then I expected. Lots of people prayed that over me, and God is providing! I love it! The picture above I got right before we landed. The most astounding sunset I've ever seen.

As soon as this little girl came in La Casita, she snuggled right up to me. Julie says she is usually like this to everyone. She is the sweetest girl ever! And her sister! Sassy-pants Caty!  They are both so full of personality! Tonight at the Bible Study, I felt the language barrier come down even more. Hearing Rodney speak and then Julie translate helps alot because I could match the words up. I love this language already!

A quick update...

Hey, just a quick update...

I am leaving at 1:30 next Tuesday. Super Excited. I have about $2,000.00 dollars in my Costa Rica account thanks to everyones help and an amazing job at the Fair last week. God is really good!!!!!!!!!!!!