Hope everything is going well for you guys. It´s a pleasure to be writing you again. Well not too much has happened from the last time you heard from me except rain, rain, and more rain. This has been a week of super wet shoes and missing umbrellas. I think I have gone through about 5 to 6 since my time here in Costa Rica. A good umbrella is very hard to hang on to (kind-of like pens). On Wednesday I bought a pretty good one. It was about $12 bucks. I enjoyed it for a great 4 days until I brought it to church on Sunday. Somehow it slipped out of my view for a short 20 minutes and before I knew it, it was stolen! I was pretty darn devestated. haha You´d think the chapel would be the safest place to leave an umbrella without it getting stolen. Well, I sure did. Now, I´m not so innocent. I commented to my comp as well, ¨What kind-of person who lives in a country where it rains 300 days a year doesn´t already have an umbrella?¨ I think some people use not buying an umbrella as an excuse to not leave the house. Yes, that is laziness of a tico for you. It definitely showed in our attendance in the chapel as well. We usually have an average of 180 attend the ward, but with the rain storm it dropped to 135. haha Well thank you for listening to my small rant.
My stolen umbrella set a tone for the week we had. It included dropping investigtors and frustrating appointments failed. Elder Gomez and I are not letting anything get us down though. We´re determined to have a solid time together. One thing that did go well for us was working with members. I found it interesting that my mom mentioned that to me in an email as well. We had one member in particular who was an all-star and gave us 4 refrences of families. She really went out of her way to help us and help her friends recieve the gospel. I found it really interesting that she was so excicted about missionary work so I asked her what her motivation was. I was pretty humbeled by her response as well. She said, a while ago a watched a video on the savior and the atonement and it created an amazing feeling inside me. I felt such a great debt towards him for all that he had sacrificed, and I decided I was going to dedicate myself in helping others realize the joy of having the atonement in their lives. That´s what I call a member missionary! haha
I hope to continue with the spirit of the work of the lord after my mission too. My mission has been great by planting a seed inside of me. I hope you all can enjoy the blessings of missionary work as well. Have a great week! Love you.
Pura Vida
Elder Miller
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