Day 4 - Wednesday, March 5th

After the bookstudy, in front of the Kingdom Hall in Quepos, the other brother and sister by the car is Bryn and Nancy from New York City.


This morning Chastity got up and made us breakfast - eggs, corn tortillas, papaya leche (fresh papaya and milk blended together) and coffee. The four of them went out in service but I stayed home due to not feeling well. Not drinking enough water and staying out in the sun for too long tends to do that to you - I think they call that sun poisoning - whew, I won’t let that happen again - not fun!
The guys came back at around 11:30 for lunch. They had a great time in the ministry. They explained that it’s basically a search work, looking for English speaking people. You go to the door, ask the householder in Spanish if they know of any English speaking people around. Then if you get an address, you go talk to them.
At 1pm is the book study. There were 14 in attendance with Bro. Smith conducting. As of now, he is the only elder because the PO is gone for a few months to take care of his sick mother. There are also 2 ministerial servants, but they are only here temporarily until probably about May. The Kingdom Hall is bright yellow with large open windows up front. I was distracted several times during the meeting due to the neighbors walking by and talking or the cars and motorcycles zooming by, I actually got interrupted during one of my comments when a loud motorcycle went by. After the book study we went to another grocery store that has a much better selection than the other one. It had a lot more American foods that we know how to cook. The brothers also showed us were an internet café is and a laundry mat that will do your wash for you for $3! We’ll be dropping of our clothes tomorrow.
Back at home, we had our daily rain shower that lasted 20-30 minutes.
We went to dinner tonight Babba Rojo, more of like an American establishment in Manuel Antonio, with a bunch of obnoxious Americans with their cigarettes and swirling their wine in the glasses. They did indeed have the “World’s Greatest Nachos” though. Sam stayed home in bed, the consequences of, like myself, not having enough water during the day. Back home at around 8pm, Sam feeling a little better. We all go to bed early.