I'm back!!!!

Hola! Como estas mis amigos? Christmas seems so far away but that was the last time that I was really on here! I had a great time at home visiting my family and friends it was wonderful to see them and spend time with them! And Alex and I thoroughly enjoyed spending 10 days together before I flew back here to Costa Rica. I have been back here in CR for 27 days and 19 of those days I spent working at a Word of Life camp. It was a wonderful but hard experience. The first week the ages of the campers ranged anywhere between 6-11 yrs.old. I worked in the kitchen that week and met a wonderful lady named, Fanny Jiminer. Her and her family which include her husband, Marco and their 15 yr.old son, Jeremias live there all year round and take care of the camp. She definitely portrays the Proverbs 31 woman. She was such an encouragement the whole time I was there. The second week of camp the ages ranged from 12-25yrs.old. It was such a huge age gap but they did perfectly fine with it!! That week I worked with the group that Marco lead which included helping with all the games and being a lifeguard at the pool(rough life! hehehe). It was so exciting to see God at work in the teens lives. Friday night they had a banquet which the guys had been asking the girls to all throughout the week. They went up front w/a microphone and invited them. It was fun to see how creative some of the guys got one of them said a poem and another sang a song to invite the girls. Very sweet :) I didn't attend the banquet but I was able to serve instead which I was perfectly content w/doing that! The third week was the same ages but seemed to have a lot more younger ones. Only 6 girls including myself chose to stay for the third week and help them at camp. It was fun getting to know those girls better. The final week I worked on the maintenance crew this week. We were in charge of washing dishes, etc. after all of the meals and cleaning the bathrooms. It was hard work and at this point I was really missing communication w/the outside world. We didn't have computers with us although I was able to talk with mom and dad a couple times during those week which I was very grateful to do! Guanacaste was the providence that we were in and the small town was called Las Juntas. I fell in love with the town there! It was a small quaint place with cobblestone roads and it was all surrounded by the beautiful mountains! And the weather was HOT too! :) I saw a lot of people on 4-wheelers and bicycles in the streets instead of cars and horses too!! I have pictures that I really want to download but I don't have that possibility right now since my laptop was accidentally dropped in the DR and the screen was shattered. :( I've been back in San Jose since Sunday evening and I've been freezing ever since I arrived! It's been in the low 60s, rainy and VERY windy. I've been back in classes since Tuesday and I'm finding it very difficult to stay focused and learn. Please pray that God would open my mind to learn and give me a deep desire to know the language. My car is for sale in the states and hopefully it will sell soon so that I can pay off my car and pay for the rest of the semester down here in CR. I would also appreciate your prayers about my computer. That God will provide the monies for a new one or a way to fix the screen on my current one. My dad is still looking for a job too so please pray that he finds work soon. Thanks for all of your prayers and encouragement!

Dios te bendiga

~Cara 2 Peter 1:3