We have just returned from the Caribbean coast!
Saturday, we got ride to San Jose to get on the bus and head over to Limon. We were able to stay with a brother and his wife that live there in one of their bedrooms. Then on Sunday we visited the congregation. If you review the account of Costa Rica in the 1987 Yearbook you will learn that the Truth came to Costa Rica at first in English! Very interesting!. Well, there are some in the Limon congregation that are related or remember serving with some of those first Christians here! There was an English congregation for many years in Limon and then something happened and it began to die off until about 30 or so years ago it was dissolved. The friends then had to learn Spanish and start attending the Spanish congregations. You have to understand that English is many of these friends mother tongue- so they waited patiently on Jehovah until just recently-About April- the English congregation was once again formed. How happy they are!
So, we had a beautiful time in Limon-but our trip was not over. We had heard of a great need to preach to the English in a small town about 46KM South called Cahuita. There are two Sisters there that for the last 6 months or so have been opening up the preaching work there. So, we went down there to help out and preach with the Special Brochure.
Wow! These Sisters have been busy! They have over 50 RV’s in this little town in just that short time. There really is great need here and apparently South of here too in Puerto Viejo. There are alot of native English speaking people in these areas and in reality only these two sisters preaching to them at the moment-so, we will see what the future holds for the Haanpää’s.
A sister from the Spanish congregation in Cahuita and her husband who speaks English and is studying let us stay in one of their houses for very little cost. Actually, they would have let us stay for free-so we just made a small donation to help defray any costs we incurred them.
So, anyway we had a wonderful time in the ministry and we have a few pictures to show you that I will put up on the website. There is so much to talk about-like the Cahuita National Park. The girls and I walked for about 9KM through the jungle next to the Caribbean sea. We saw all sorts of Monkeys, Sloths, cool insects, Blue Crabs, Lizards, and much, much more! It was awesome!
I am sure Kathleen will have much more to say about it so I will not go on and on here – so… until next chapter…
4 comments:
Sounds wonderful Kevin. We went in service today with becky, kevin, misty, and our little family of four. We talked about how much we missed you. Well girls are in the bath so gotta go.
Love Tina & Brad
Sounds like you had an exciting time!
Glad you are having a good spiritual time! Don't know how we missed your last Skype call. We are always hone on Wed. evenings! We will be looking forward to your nect call.
Love Mom & Dad
Thanks for sharing this with us! So exciting to hear how the tract work is in gear in other parts of the world! Miss the brown pants and red shorts off of you guys and hate it that you're missing Milana's sweet bowel cut! You're in our thoughts and prayers always. Love the martians, I mean Martins! PS. We have a new elder and MS in N. Hill, and the littlest Martin is going to be Rocco Dean. Love ya!
Stefka I love you! Rocco Dean indeed! It is so perfect! Bet little Rocco will never be called by any other name, "Hermanito Rocco" when he answers at the meeting...even when he is 80! Rocco hope you can keep up with both him and Milana and I think every little person should have a bowl hair cut when they are little! I love you very much sweetheart. Paises cant change that. Thanks for the note!
Love Brown Pants..ie Katalena
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