¡Pura Vida!: Manzanas Manzanas Manzanas

So this last week was transfers. In the mission (for those of you who don't know) there are transfers every 6 weeks when you are assigned to a new companion and area. Sometimes transfers don't effect you and you just stay in your same area. I'm still training so Elder Vellver and I are still together and we're still here in Limon. We got one more addition to our district and two more in the other district. So in all, three Elders from our zone got transferred and we got three new Latinos fresh from the Guatemala MTC.

We had a reunion in San Jose this week with the entire mission of Costa Rica. That right, every single missionary in Costa Rica, all 250 of us, was at this meeting. It was really cool to see this huge body of the Lord's soldiers all together. The meeting itself was great. Elder Duncan from the Centroamérica area presidency spoke to us, as did Elder Maynes of the 70. After them President Wilkinson spoke to us a little about changes in the mission. The Costa Rica mission will split into 2 missions pretty soon so a lot of changes will be taking place in order to prepare for this. 2 new zones were announced at this meeting and a few new Zone Leaders were assigned.

Elder Vellver and I had a miracle occur the other day. So there is a fruit here called Manzana De Agua. It's kinda like an apple but not really. It tastes a lot sweeter and is a lot softer. Kinda looks like a red pear (just google it, that'll be easier then this explination). Well Elder Vellver and I are crazy about them and eat them all the time. There are a lot of manzana trees here in Limon so usually we'll just get a long stick and knock a few down to eat while we're walking. Well the other day we were walking on the tracks and we saw a little bunch of apples in a tree. We got all excited and climbed further into this little "jungle" of trees to see if there was any more. We struck oil. We walked into this heavenly grove of hundreds and hundreds of manzanas everywhere. Felt like we were in a dream haha. We grabbed as many as we could and stuffed our backpacks. This was about 4 days ago, and we are STILL eating these manzanas.

I love it here in Limon and I love being part of this culture. Costa Rica is super Pura Vida, it's perfect. The work is coming along as is my Spanish. A veces esta obra es imposible y pienso que no se puede. Pero yo se que aquí es el lograr que mi Dios preparo para yo a servir. Por medio la ayuda de mi Señor, si se puede. Las Personas aquí son listo por bautismo y listo para vivir las enseñanzas de Jesucristo. There's a great scripture in Doctrine & Covenants section 84 that explains that missionaries are protected and helped in their work. This really helped me, go read it.

Keep On Keepin' On...

- Elder Willis