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The Calm Before the Storm

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Sunday was my first of eight different church services I will be able to be apart of this summer at Celebration Costa Rica. The worship was amazing and I am learning a little Spanish here and there. Sunday Service at Celebration CR with Pastor Miguel   Monday we got the opportunity to go out to Tiribi, where we had a feeding center for the community. We were able to feed over 75 children and adults. Tuesday we got the opportunity to take a break and go to Jaco beach as interns. We rode a bus for 2 hours that only costed just over 5 dollars and we were there! We ate at an amazing taco place and then we hit the beach. It was good to get to know the interns I would be working with this summer as well as a well needed tan! It was the last day that one of the staff members, Josh, was here, so it was a going away day for him as he faithfully served here in Costa for 6 months! Shout out to Josh, such a great person, it was cool to get to know you! Jaco Beach Wednesday, we had anot

The Costa Rica Tourists Will Never See!

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This Wednesday, I set off on an adventure that would take me to one of the most southern parts of Central America, Costa Rica. I arrived later that night. The only eventful thing that happened at the airport was that my good suitcase was ripped and ruined:/ The funniest thing was when I went through the last "customs" in Costa and the guy tried asking me why I was bringing 40 pounds of rice into the country as he was looking through my luggage, it was priceless. All I could say was, "Ministerio", all in all I got through!  I started pretty much in fifth gear the next day in the morning. I was able to meet the team of 9 students and adults we had from Georgia and we went out to a community and played with the kids and then had a feeding center at Tiribi. Tiribi is a community that I have been in many times within the two different trips I have been on. It is a community that myself and all of my past missions teams has a huge heart for.  After Tiribi, we were