Well, I have almost been in Costa Rica now for 2 weeks. It has been a great time so far. My DTS (Discipleship Training School) has 14 other students in it (9 girls, 5 guys). Everyone is great! Most of our school is from the U.S. or Canada...we have one girl from Germany. I am starting to just get in the hang of how to do everything. Every morning breakfast starts early at 6:30am (so most mornings I don't go!). Then we have personal devotions for one hour, and then prayer as a group or worship. Then we have classes for 3 hours every morning. This week our speaker is talking about intimacy with God. It has been a really good teaching and I am enjoying it. In the afternoons we have various activities and then every day at 4pm I have free time. Then we have dinner and my job (family contribution as we call it!) is to clean up after dinner (dishes!). In the nights we have classes sometimes or just free time. We are in a little neighborhood of San Jose, but we are only about 10 minutes away from downtown by bus so we have gone there a couple of times already (buses are about $.50 each way).
Last weekend we had the privilege of going to the earthquake area. In case some of you didn't hear, Costa Rica had a 6.2 earthquake the day I left. So far 20 have died and 5 are still missing and over 2,500 are out of their homes. We went to the town where the epicenter of the earthquake was and ministered to those who don't have homes at a refugee camp. Over 197 people were living in this little area in tents with their families. We had a couple activities and games for the kids in order to encourage them. It was a great time of blessing for all of us.
God has been teaching me so many things so far on this trip. I will post some pictures soon for all of you! If you would like to see some pics now, there are some on my facebook page also!
Well, I miss you all and hope to hear from you too! I will try and keep this better updated...sorry about that!
Love,Kim
