Headed to Week 4!

This week has been so good!  The best of all them so far!  We had the best speaker, Carlos Penning.  He spoke on the Character and Nature of God.  It was so great!  He challenged us to ask God big questions and get the answers only from him.  Carlos would always ask us what questions we had and most time he wouldn't answer them, but encourage us to look into the bible for the answer.  He really challenged us to get to know the heart of God.  It was just so good, I learnt so much!

We had a day this week called the day of giving.  It was really sweet.  This day was to help us remember that the things we have aren't our own and that if we allow God to use what we have for his glory, he will bless us.  It was crazy to see what God did and how people totally gave what they had over to God.  One person gave their guitar, another gave their big travel backpack, and another gave her laptop.  It was so crazy, God taught me so much.  Someone gave me a pair of shoes and someone else gave me head phones.  At first when I got the head phones I was so confused, why would God give me head phones?  But then he reminded me that I gave a pair of head phone away to one of my friends when I got here.  God had seen what I did and blessed me.  WOW! Haha.  It was so encouraging and I'm so excited to see how my friends are going to be blessed.

Yesterday I went to the beach! It was my first time at the beach since I've been here in Costa Rica, so I was super HAPPY!  We had to take a two hour bus ride to Jaco, but it was so worth it.  When we got there and got off the bus you could just feel the heat!  It was so amazing! Haha.  We weren't there for very long.  We got there at 10:30am and had to get tickets for the bus back to San Jose at 2pm because all the later buses where full, but it was long enough that we all roasted a bit.  When we were at the beach we got smoothies.  They were SO big and SO good! Haha.  It was a sweet deal, 2 for 1, so it only cost us $2 each!  If you had bought one back at home it would have been $5 or more I'm sure. Haha
And thats all that really happened this week that was exciting!  Hopefully all is well in the homeland of Canada!  I'm still not missing it. Haha

Much love, 
Hannah

Ps. I took some pictures at the beach, I will see if I can get them on sometime!