Today was a hot, sunny day with a constant breeze blowing. It was a day that we set aside as a "rural service day", meaning that all the members of our congregation that chose to, spent almost the entire day visiting people from door to door. Since we normally only do this activity for 2 hours or a little more at a time, this is a big undertaking. We had 6 cars full of people that spent from 8:30 a.m. until about 3:00 p.m. in the preaching work. We are in a special campaign of inviting everyone to our memorial of Jesus Christ´s death on April 17th, so our visits were very brief and we covered a huge amount of territory. Everyone packed a picnic lunch, and one sister, Hilda, even brought a portable gas burner. With this she boiled water and made fresh coffee right on the spot for everyone using the traditional Costa Rican "chorreado" method (pouring the boiling water through what looks like an old dirty sock full of ground coffee). Hilda also brought a homemade cake that she shared with everyone. Erick and I brought fresh, juicy watermelon, papaya, and melon for all and shared cold iced tea with many. Even though the cars were there to facilitate things, we were walking most of the time over dusty, very rocky roads. So we got home exhausted, toasted, and covered in dust from head to toe, but happy! Everyone was excitied about all we had accomplished and the huge testimony we had given to 3 different pueblos (communities).
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| A welcome rest |
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| Jessica is exhausted and sunburned |
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| Dayans enjoying an orange |
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| Maicol is happy with our picnic |
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| a calf looked on as we ate |
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| Roger |
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| Samantha the Valiant |
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| Hilda making coffee |
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| Amparo and her Montero |
