Hello all,
Thank you for all your prayers. Quick update on my physical situation: I’m doing okay. The muscle relaxants do not seem to make much of a difference, but perhaps they are helping a little. Ibprofen is definitely a constant companion for me, and I just ask that you continue to pray for healing. Good news is that its highly unlikely that it would be shingles again…which means that we are probably down to the fact that my body thinks I’m extremely stressed :) crap. The problem with this is that I’m not sure how to tell my body to relax and calm down! I don’t exactly know how to just “stop” the stress. I don’t know exactly what I’m stressed about either…well, I realize there are a lot of differences in my life right now. But honestly, I do not feel overly emotionally stressed. Obviously my body knows me better than I do, and right now my body disagrees and believes I’m stressed. Please pray that God would relieve this and that I would truly find rest and satisfaction in Christ.
This morning was wonderful as we all slept in. I actually got up quite a bit earlier than the rest of the family and took advantage of the alone time. It was wonderful to start the day off by relaxing in my room and spending time in prayer and reading the Bible. I really appreciated this time alone with God and thank him for it. After my wonderful alone time and a shower, we had breakfast and the family started rolling in! I have mentioned this before, but I just love how the family comes over all the time. There were 4 different family members here by 10:30! I love talking to the family members. They are just so nice. The cousin asked a lot of questions about farming and agriculture in Iowa. And dad, if you ever need a crop duster for the crops, he is a pilot and interested in making a deal :)
After chatting with them all for awhile, I ended up going to the open-air market with my dad and cousin. This was great—I love this environment! It is only like 1 ½ blocks away from their house. We ended up filling up a grocery cart full of fresh fruits and vegetables! (There are men at the market that rent grocery carts to different people). This is so cool to me. Instead of buying everything from a box at the grocery store, they go to the market! It was also fun because the dad and cousin kept trying to get me to guess the different names of the vegetables and fruits. There are soo many things we don’t have here! Of course I usually didn’t know, but if I did recognize something the cousin always wanted to know what it was called in English. I love hearing them pronounce English words—its so precious. They have such strong accents and I tease them about it. I tease them when they try to talk in English, and they make fun of me when I make up words in Spanish :)
This afternoon my parents all of a sudden ran out of the house and said they had to go to a reunion at their aunt’s house. I didn’t fully understand where they were going and why I hadn’t heard anything about it, but off they went! I was home with my sister for about 4 hours by ourselves this afternoon. We ordered Chinese food (yes, in Costa Rica!), watched TV, and I worked on homework some. Then she asked me if I could help her with something. I said of course, and she said she needed me to translate something. She said she just got this new game on her computer last night, but the directions were in English. I figured I would just need to translate a few lines and then that would be it. Nope! We ended up playing this game together for over 2 hours! It ended up being all in English and there were constantly little bubbles popping up with instructions. I really enjoyed this, and I was so happy to be able to help her. I also think this was a really good opportunity for us to spend time together. She’s a great girl. :)
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