Scorpians, Surfing, and Street Witnessing

January 24- Today we organized and made up some crafts for the Potter’s Field kids. Then we went back to our house before going to the beach ministry. All was just fine until I saw something black in the curtains. Figuring it was just another cockroach which we find and get rid of all the time, I opened up the curtains. It wasn’t a cockroach. We found our first scorpion. I figured we had two options: get it out ourselves, or run to Pastor Phil to get him to kill it. Neither Sarah or I were exactly excited to get near to the scorpion, but on the other hand, if we left it could move and we might not be able to find it again and it might appear in our beds (this has happened with the roaches except we just lose them and can’t find them for a while). This is the missions field right? We eat scorpions for breakfast! (figuratively at least….we had Cheerio’s). So I strapped on my bug stompin’ shoes and grabbed our broom and smacked the thing over and over. Well that totally failed. It had a pretty good grip on our curtains and I didn’t want to completely squish it and have to wash it off. So I took the curtain rod down and stuck it outside and was able to loosen its grip and throw it to the ground. I was victorious for about 5 seconds before it ran back into the house, behind the door, and up the wall. I was just sick of the nasty thing and smacked it a few times with the broom and swept it to the midget chickens outside. Unfortunately, they didn’t eat it, but at least the scorpion is gone.

Anyways, on a more important note, today we got to go to the beach and watch Pastor Phil and Eddy surf and just walk around. Then we went into Tamarindo and went to "Christian Surfers" Alex (who goes to the calvary chapel in Villa Rreal) played some songs and a man stood up on the bench and preached (all in Spanish of course) I couldn't understand much, but I got to talk to a tourist a bit. I'm not sure where she thought I was from because afterwards she wanted me to take a picture with her and Eddy (Eddy is from Nicaragua and very obviously looks it) It was so amazing, God is doing some awesome things here in Costa Rica!