Crazy Costa Ricans

Dear Family,

Missionary work is crazy tough haha, but I love it! I don´t have much time but I´ll try and write as much as possible.

Answers:

1)      I usually eat eggs or cold cereal for breakfast... I need to eat better, but we don´t have any time to buy food!!!!

2)      We don´t have dinners in this mission. You can take an hour off during the night but no one does because it is prime teaching and proselyting time, so usually I don´t have dinner. In Costa Rica they have huge lunches so most of the people only eat breakfast in Lunch, and a tiny little dinner

3)      Yes I received Eric´s e-mail, and Katie´s and Allison´s. I just seriously don´t have time to write everybody. Sorry!!!

Well since I don´t have that much time I´ll just tell a story of what happened this week...So today we went to Limon (The Beach) with our zone for P-day. It´s about 3-4 hours away but the beach (Puerto Viejo) is the most beautiful place I have ever seen! Well no one ever told me that I need my passport with me to go to Limon. There is a security check-point and anyone that doesn´t have their passport can be detained and deported to Nicaragua. It actually happened to an Elder not too long ago. Well I didn´t have my passport, only my driver´s license and I was praying like crazy that they wouldn´t stop our bus, and in the way into Puerto Viejo, they didn´t. But they way out they did. I was praying like crazy, and I knew that God can do anything. He is all-powerful, and he will answer our prayers according to our faith. Remember every time Jesus healed someone, what question did he ask? Do you have the faith to be healed? Entonces, I was praying with Faith because I did not want to get deported to Nicaragua haha. I felt strongly that everything was going to be okay though. So the Costa Rican police officer asks for my passport at the check point, and what do I show him? My California driver´s license haha, and he totally let me go. I know that prayers of faith are answered. I know that when we are completely obedient to the Lord, and we completely accept his will over ours we will be blessed in the long term. I didn´t know what was going to happen to me, but I had faith that the Lord was going to help me according to my faithfulness and diligence in this work.

Sorry this letter is so short, just not much time. I´m actually in Limon right now haha. Well I love all of you very much, and I know the Lord is blessing our family according to your faith. Keep me in your prayers and keep on following Christ with faith and repentance. Our Father in Heaven knows best always, and we cannot do anything without his help. I’ll send pictures next week when I have more time, I saw a couple sloths this week (I have seen 7) and monkeys today! (They dropped fruit on our heads haha) and always the beaches here are ridiculously gorgeous! Okay well this is all for this week! Love you all, and I know that the Lord will bless you according to your faith in his will, and Christ!

Love,

Elder Taylor