Week 4 "This is a beautiful country!"

This was the best meal we have had so far.  Cod and rice and beans.

This is a beautiful country! I am in an area called Heredia, specifically San Francisco.  It is really poor.  It is poorer than the reservation and straight hood!  I love my companion!  He is from Kentucky and is a monster.  The people her are loving.  Everything is expensive here so we don't get that much, like snacks!  So the other day I was pretty down and all day I was praying specifically for a ginger ale.  ALL DAY.  Sounds dumb right?  I know!  But our last visit for the night was to this recent convert.  He looks at me halfway through the lesson and says "do you want a ginger ale!"  I started totally bawling!!!  We have an area called Milpa and it is sketchy, but me and comp know we are representatives of Jesus Christ so we walk straight through.  The only thing that we are scared of is the dogs!  They are the most vile disgusting creepy ferocious creatures you have ever seen.  More than once I have ran for my life this week!  Days are long, weeks are short.  Anyway, our mission president is a savage.  We didn't get P-Day today because he split our zone at 10 and we spent the first half of the day getting there and the second half coming home!  My companion told me that he sent a bunch of people home a long time ago because the Spirit told him they weren't worthy.  Savage!  We went to the temple which was very pretty.  The members here give us a lot of food.  Let me correct that statement, a lot of rice!  Hopefully we get a real investigator this week!!!  On the sour side of things, one of my buddies from the MTC who came out with me to this mission went home.  He couldn't handle it.  Poor guy.  He had a good heart!  Here in our mission being a trainer is a huge deal.  President calls them your fathers.  My companion is such a stud that they call him the grandfather.  He is an animal.