So I went on a trip this summer. I went to Costa Rica on a mission trip. It was a great experience! It was hot and humid and buggy and muddy and sunny and rainy and cold and windy and wonderful! I will post a few stories of the things that happened.
I absolutely loved getting to know the little children while making crafts and speaking in my broken Spanish with them. I think they loved it too. This was the first church we went to:
There was one boy around the age of 11 I met at our first place of ministry, a suburb of San Jose called Desamparados, who I immediately noticed had artistic gifting. Myself being an artist I wanted to talk to him and encourage him in his obvious gift. When I did get the chance to talk to him I told him that I thought he was really good at art and asked if he would continue it when he grew up. He replied with no, but said that he wanted to be a veterinarian.
In his city the poverty is pretty evident and we could see and were told that many people were making bad choices there. I am glad that he was able to be reached by the church we were working with and that if he was not already a Christian a seed was planted and he will stay with God and grow up to become a veterinarian or whatever it is that God has planned for him!
Stay tuned for more stories about the people I met and the crazy things we did!
Sarah
