¡Pura Vida!: Tis The Season... For Transfers

Well we had transfers this week and I got my new companion. I was pretty ticked, to be honest, that my mini-missionary comp Hermano Matarrita had to leave the area. In just the week that we were together we became really good friends and I loved being that kid's comp. My new companion is named Elder Herrarte. He's from Guatemala and he only only has 5 months left in the mission. It's kinda difficult because he left his heart in his last area and has made it pretty clear that he doesn't really want to be here in Puerto Viejo. It's hard because I love this area so much and I actually never want to leave here. It's gonna take a while for us to get in to a good working relationship, but we're coming along.

Along with this transfer, about half of our zone got changed to new areas. So we've got new district leaders, new sister training leaders, and just new missionaries all around. Yesterday for P-Day we decided to do an activity as a district to get to know everybody. We went to this cool tourist attraction they have here in Puerto Viejo called Snake Garden. It's basically just a small zoo full of snakes, crocodiles, turtles, iguanas and just about every other kind of reptile. It was pretty cheap and we had a good time bonding as a district.

One of our recent convert families was having a family reunion kinda thing and they invited us. They were cooking up this big ol' pot of what's called chicharón. It's fried pig skin and fat. It's so dang good.

Well the work is coming along and all is well with our members and investigators. I absolutely love being here in Puerto Viejo, it's waaay pura vida. I love y'all so much and pray for you often.

Keep On Keepin' On.

You can't see the sign but its says "Abierto lunes a sábado, cerado los domingos" which means "open Monday to Saturday, closed Sundays". This recent convert family runs a pulpería out of their house where they sell like candies and sodas and stuff, but they didn't understand why they shouldn't sell on Sundays. We taught them about keeping the Sabbath day holy and the next day we found this sign outside their house.