Mission to Paradise: Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving! I heard you will all be having a big feast in my honor as your celebrate my birthday this Thursday! Thank you for remembering me and throwing me a party even though I am not there! You guys are the best!! And you even got the whole country in on it?? WOW! Really, thank you! I love you too! :)

This week was the baptism of "P"! He is awesome! And their family is adorable! His wife and daughters were baptized about 2 months ago, and now they are a happy family! :) Before his baptism, we had a lesson with his family and we wanted to touch on the Priesthood again so he could understand it a little more and prepare to receive it. The Elders joined us for the appointment and that was going to be perfect, because they have the Priesthood and could help him out even more. When we got to their house, their son was very sick. And the family was very worried about him. Before we even started our lesson about the Priesthood, they asked for a blessing for their son. Luckily the Elders were with us! They gave a blessing to their son, and then we proceeded to teach the lesson. It went very well! The next day they shared with us this experience. At 4am, their son woke up, sat up in his bed and was completely better, and said, Dios es el Rey del mundo, or God is the King of the World, and then went back to sleep. He is only 4 years old, and that experience was a very special witness of the power of the Priesthood for their family. P was baptized the next day.

This week we had Multi Zone Conference and it was amazing!! Just saying. :) We have not quite reached our goal yet, but we still have one more week to reach 200! Here we go...! For our mission, the First Presidency has asked that we double our baptisms. So little by little we will now be working towards a goal of 400 every month! It might take a bit to reach that many, because we haven't reached 200 in over a year, but we are ready to work hard! Costa Rica is being prepared to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I am excited to be here helping them find it!

Thank you for all of your love! Have the best week ever! Stay safe and happy! LOVE YOU! :)

Love,

Hermana Markle. :)

Items of Business:

1. Good luck with your new calling dad! :) You will be great! Just like I am sure you were great at your calling that lasted 4 weeks!

2. Welcome home from your mission Madi!!! Now repent and write me. This was your free week because you had to adjust to home life and stuff. But mom says you are using the iPad like normal again, so find some time to write me!

3. My email day will always be on Tuesday now! They have had issues, so they made some new rules... But yeah! But feel free to email me all the days! :)

4. I think I broke my big toe last week playing soccer... Or jammed it pretty bad. Its getting better now, but walking has been fun! Oops!

5. I have calluses on my knees! How cool is that?? How many people do you know with calluses on their knees from praying?? Maybe it is because we have cement floors, but still! That is an accomplishment! :)

6. This year for my birthday we will be celebrating it in the office! My companion has to go to get her Cedula and become Tica, so I will sit in the office for 7 hours doing paper work and nursing notes and other fun stuff! Wahoo! :)

7. A mouse jumped out of our trash can and ran across the floor while we were planing on the floor. That was funny! My companion screeeemed! Good times.. :)

8. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! :) We had a thanksgiving dinner with a gringo family on Sunday, so that was nice! Have fun with the family! Don't miss me too much!!!

9. I love you all!!!!! :) Thanks for being the best family ever!!!! :)

10. Oh yeah, an Elder had surgery on his hand last night and we were at the hospital until 2am. That was a good adventure!