Braving the Jellies

It has been a busy few weeks. We love our congregation and this town. We had 2 girls from Spain living with us for 10 days o and became very close friends with them. We also have gotten really close to all the couples and need greaters from other countries who serve in our hall. Between going to another town called Cartenas to help out the 3 publishers and have adventures and going surefing with our japanese brothers life has been full of fun. The beaches have all of a sudden become a home for jelly fish though so its a little bit interesting going for runs on the bay in the morning. Here are a few pictures of our latest adventures...

The fire dancers on the beach in front of our house

In service in Cartenas with Joaquin and Carolina

Fun times with friends at Blythe and Andras house ( kind of a welcome here for Monica and Alan from Czech Republic)

This is the Circus we woke up to in our back yard. Yes at the bottom of my stairs there were 3 ostritches, a monkey and a lion ... oh and a midget that i ended up placing a tract with.

A agua mala or jelly fish on the beach

Our temporary roomates from Spain Chole and Karina Yoshito an MS in our hall stretching for getting ready to hit the big waves of maderas

A few pics of our life

Our Kingdom hall in San Juan Del Sur

In our kitchen

Our House.. we are on the second floor

Home Sweet Home

San Juan Del Sur

A beautiful town on the pacific coast of Nicaragua is where we have now made our home. This is the view in front of the apartment we are moving into on Friday. It is a perfect place for surfing and dirtbiking and service.. what more could you want!

Beach Boys Move Over

Tamarindo Sunset

Tamarindo Costa Rica is definately the highlight of this country. A fun california esque surf town with 70's shops, and surf shops all over. Today I caught my first waves and had a blast. The water was a little too cold for me to go for long and i definately have some huge bruises on my knees

(my surfing skills ... beginner style)

but it was completely worth it. It was very windy today which made it not the most ideal day for learning but i could definately get used to surfing every day. I guess that's the life most people want though isn't it...

Volcanoe´s In the Mist...

right-massive waterfall ( sarcastic) left- Jes and lake
arenal in the background


That sounds quite poetic and beautiful but in reality it just means you can´t see the volcano for all of the rain and clouds. It really isn´t the charming Dante´s Peak of a towns fault that it was raining while we are here, but it was a bit of a disappointement. La Fortuna and Volcan Arenal is a beautiful area with so many awesome possibilities of things to do. The only problem is that finding the legitimate tour companies is harder then finding the lava amongst all of the rain. Which well was impossible. We definately have quite the story to tell when we get back, hopefully by that time it will be the kind that when we tell it we will see how ridiculous it was and not be able to stop laughing. Just know that we are very happy to be leaving Costa Rica by the end of the week. One more stop in Costa the beach in Tamarindo, hopefully everything will go well there, and we won´t have to worry to much about con artists can´t wait for sun sand and surf


my umbrella





the volcano we didn´t see

Leaving Cahuita and on to San Jose

SAN JOSE

We went to the meeting in Cahuita which turned out to be a milestone for the people there. The very first congregation in Costa Rica was in the english and it was in Cahuita but in the mid 80´s it was disbanded. We attended the very first meeting in english in Cahuita since that time. There were 29 in attendance including the one of the first brothers to learn the truth in all of Costa Rica. We were taken out for dinner by a very sweet family from Georgia. The next day we headed to San Jose. I don´t know how to explain San Jose it is is just ... a city. There isn´t a lot of charm or anything it is just there. We were able to go to Bethel there which was very beautiful. We also got a tour of the assembly hall. San Jose is very expensive ( well most of costa rica is expensive) and I definately got into quite the tiff with a taxi driver who charged me 60 dollars for a 10 block cab ride to the bus station. In the end though San Jose was not as bad as i had been told it was. We did manage to find some little coffee shops downtown and to figure out .. well more like experiment on the bus system there.

We definately got lost but we got to see a lot of the city and we made it home eventually. We are now in the town of La Fortuna for a little bit of an adventure on the volcano .. I am REALLY EXCITED FOR TODAY!!!

( Above pic of bethel courtyard. right- Us on bethel property)