BLUSTERY THANKSGIVING

Here it is Thanksgiving and it is a very blustery day in Costa Rica. It started raining last night and all through the night.  It is raining really hard and the wind is blowing now and it feels cold, not what I would expect for Thanksgiving in Costa Rica.  People here have been busy, busy preparing food for the big feast. Yesterday they baked apple, cherry, pecan, and pumpkin pies. This is suppose to be a real traditional dinner so I will soon find out if it is "just like home".
We did a Thanksgiving dinner at the base before we left for outreach thinking we would not have one while we were out so now we are having our second Thanksgiving.
Tuesday morning we made sandwiches and went out to a park in Heredia and feed homeless people. There was one kid there who was maybe 18 and he and his brother had been living on te streets for years. He was on drugs, depressed, hopeless and told one guy on our team he was planning on killing himself. So Terry, Bruce, and Reno were able to talk to him and then pray with him and he left feeling better.  In the afternoon we went to a different park and did ministry with our dramas and testimonies. It started to rain pretty food so we continued under a big gazebo in the park. It was good.
Yesterday we went out to the neighborhood we had been going door to door and giving out bibles and continued with that and then in the afternoon went to a park in San Rafael and did kids ministry in the park. That was good. Kalissa and I talked to a lady who was there who had 3 kids and a baby. She said she wished we were there every doing what we were doing, that it was very needed. We asked if we could pray with her and she asked for prayer for her husband who works about 16 hours a day providing for the family, health for her kids, and protection because she said it can be quite dangerous around there. It was a privilege to talk with and pray for her.
Besides that we continue with our almost daily meetings of intercession, worship, devotions, debrief, and whatever. I am really to the end of my patience of having someone dictate what I do 24/7. Other than that, life is good and God is Great!
Amen.