....The next chapter has begun

...Costa Rica....5weeks...3  congregations the branch recommended. Overall a good but tiring 1st day of travel.  Started much like the last blog entry 3 years ago: weight problems...no not us, well, yeah us but also the luggage. Up at 4am, at 5:15 was told by delta checkin lady that we would need to take a pound from our 51 pound bag and put it in r 49 pound bag. I'm no mathematical genius but isn't that the same exact cumulative weight for the 2 bags.

We obviously don't know where the camera is:)

Landed in San Jose to a balmy but breezy 82 degrees. We were picked up by una hermanita Doris, 27 años, quick 25 minutes to the house of Gretel y su Hijo Santiago (5 años) where we will b staying the next week and where she had lunch all ready for us....there is nothing like Jehovah's organization!

Gretel

School and service mtg at 7pm (9pm  New York time). Must say it was a little rough ending mtg at what felt like 11pm and then waiting for Erik to talk to the coordinator and other anciano til midnight:) incidentally, the coordinator and his wife( special pioneers), the only other elder and his wife and the only other 3 pioneers are all in pioneer school this week but the congregation of 107 publicadores  seems very loving and we made plans to go on some studies. We stopped to meet Doris's parents on the way home, her dad started studying 6 months ago. Her mom and 3 sisters r very happy. By the time we got home at 11:30(remember  the 2 hour time difference) we had been up 21 hours with 4 hours sleep the night before=a good nights sleep:)