A few months ago, I met a girl named Lauren outside of a certain place in Sabanilla (OK fine, Casa del Pie). She is also from Kansas (!) and here interning with a group of students learning about Spanish and the bible here in San José. We traded phone numbers and I didn't think much of it.
A few weeks later, they invited me to church. It was really inspired timing. I had just gotten really busy with school and was really missing my support system of my bibs girls and going to Heartland with my mom. Spanish church is neat, but when I'm working on language learning I'm just not using the same part of my brain as the wow-I-love-spending-time-with-God part. So when they told me that they had an English worship service for their program, it was just like, this is exactly what I need. So I went.
The rest is, if you can forgive the cliché, history — I have had just a wonderful time with this group. I play frisbee with them on Mondays, participate in a Thursday night small group (which was so wonderful to be included, since I know small groups aren't always so open to visitors), go to their house on Sunday nights for church and they even invited me hiking with them last Friday (and it was wonderful).
I feel like it's cheating since they're not Costa Rican, but one of the things I will most about Costa Rica is my time with the GAP kids. Every single one has been wonderful to me and I feel like I am able to come home in a really good place emotionally and spiritually because of their support. Beautiful hearts, every single one of them.
After hiking the mountain of the three crosses!
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