Surprise Surprise Surprise

This week was honestly probably the fastest I've had in my whole mission. I really feel like we just had P-Day yesterday. But I guess that's a good thing. It means the work is working and I'm doing good.

We had a pretty big surprise this past week. So we normally have a weekly planning session on Thursday mornings when we plan for the upcoming week. Who we will visit, how we will help them, any meetings that we'll have coming up, things like that. Well this last Thursday, we knelt down to pray to start the planning session, and as we said amen and started to get up, we heard a car pulling up in the gravel out front of our apartment. We went out front to see who it was and we saw President Hayes, our mission president, and his wife in the car. As you can imagine our hearts dropped with fear as we tried to think of a reason why President would need to pay us a surprise visit. We felt a little better as he got out of his car and greeted us with a warm smile and hand shake. This guy really is just so full of love and you just feel calm around him. Anyway, he told us that he was here to sit in on our planning session and see how we're doing. Needless to say the next 2 hours of our weekly planning were full of teachings, advice, and council from President Hayes. It was a shock but a really good experience none the less to have him visit us in our area for a few hours.

Aside from that surprise visit on Thursday, the rest of the week was full of new investigators and lots of lessons with really profound questions. I've noticed that as I teach these people here in Costa Rica I learn more about the gospel and about myself every day. Plus I'm becoming a pretty talented Tico with all the traditions they have here. I love these people and I love this work. God loves his children, and he loves each of you individually.

Keep On Keepin' On...

-Elder Willis

 

Shucking pipas (coconuts)

I'm a pro. My record is 42 seconds to shuck, open, and drink a whole pipa