5/23 Costa Rica parte 2!

Costa Rica, the lastest frontier for PFR interns. These are the voyages of Michaela, Justine and Natalie. It’s a 10 week mission: to explore strange new cultures, to seek out new lives in Christ and serve with fellow brothers and sisters, to boldly go where no interns (wel,l prior to Sarah and I) have gone before!
Don’t judge me I woke up at 4 a.m.

Matt and Ethan picked us up at the airport. As we drove to Villarreal (our flight was to Liberia, about an hour away from Villrreal) we got to talk to them a little about what’s been going on. Then Matt started talking about the bugs (I was just waiting for this ha ha). When Sarah and I came, we were informed that the “season” they were going through were locusts, jumping spiders, and scorpions. This time I guess it’s toads/frogs, giant flying ants, and large june bugs. I still think this sounds suspiciously a little like Exodus 7-11 ;) Ethan threw in that since it was rainy season there’s tons of more bugs ha ha. I wish it were light enough at that point to see Justine’s face. But I’m loving being back and I know Justine is excited. Matt and Brooke added some things to the cabina including a big voltage regulator that Justine found also conveniently works as a “squish every moving thing that you see” regulator. When we first arrived we didn’t see any bugs so I tried to be encouraging to Justine and tell her maybe they’re all gone now that there’s activity. 3 cockroaches later she’s clapping and stomping before she enters a different part of the cambina ha ha. She would make a great Pentecostal…very enthusiastic…

Lastly here’s just a list of things that blessed me that I made at the airport while thinking about the month I had at the Ranch:

-meeting the two interns, Justine and Natalie, that I would be going to Costa Rica with
-meeting Pastor Jim, Patti, Pastor Gennarino, Margaret, Klein and Leanna
-praying with the interns in the morning
-Hearing about Gabriella from Dawn Marie
-dodging reverse pot holes of death with Katie
-finally finding someone who will call me something other than Michaela
-working in the admin: 10 minute warning!; the ducks are flying over the bridge; just inconspicuously get a mint from Kelly’s office; “WALT? ANETTE. NO, ANETTE! JOHN’S GIRLFRIEND!?NO JOHN’S GIRLFRIEND!”;
-shopping with the guys and buying my first packaged shirts from the boys section
-sitting on the dock with Chris, Cortney, Michelle and Tony in Whitefish and hanging out
-seeing Potter’s Field keeping Coffee Trader’s and the Red Caboose open single-handedly
-Canoeing and laughing as Chris tries to pull us through 3 inches of water and ends up in 3 feet
-Searching for potatoes and muffins in the Piedemonte’s backyard with Selah
-Creating experiments with Gabe
-Holding baby Spencer
-playing that weird version of Uno that Tony never quite got ;)
-answering my cell phone in town “Potter’s Field Ministries, this is Michaela”
-Playing guitar and singing with Matt for 4 hours and trying not to laugh when he sings worship songs low and sounds like Johnny Cash
-Hearing Michelle’s song
-finding out how well Justin and Tony play mom: Just drink more water right? :)
-family dinner prepared by Pastor Jim and Patti <3
-worshipping and fellowshipping around a fire
-Spanish class: PescaBlanca
-Answering phones and coloring Dora and Blues Clues with Selah at the front desk
-Ballet in Bigfork with the girlies
-Bible study at Pastor Jim and Patti’s
-Singing “Girl Named Tennessee” by Needtobreathe loudly with Katie, Michelle and Justin in my car
-watching Beauty and the Beast with Tony
-Seeing a moose 3 days in a row
-John MacArthur cult ;)
-Katie and her “incident” at Bruce’s
-IMing Eden, Ezekial and Elijah “Do you has a puppy?”
-Sushi with JoJo and Kendyl and sitting on the dock admiring the weird dead squirrel things in the water
-Going to the lake at Bigfork and skipping rocks and going for a short swim for Katie’s flip-flop
-trying to analyze paintings with Matt and Chris (which we totally rocked)
-Dandelions with Kelly!
-being blessed more than I thought possible by my brothers and sisters in Christ