March Madness-Pura Vida Misional style

New Chapel in Pavas, La Sabana Stake nearing completion.
This is the ward where Rodrigo Rivera, our Jefe (manager), is Obispo.

A homeless man took up residence just outside the parking lot
at The Don Bosco Ward Chapel where our Office is located

Dinner out at PF Changs one Friday night in March.
It's been open here for only a couple of months.  For Hermana Di's
birthday.

On Saturday, March 7, taught 180+ sisters of Toyopan Stake
Relief Society..."How to start your own Business" 

Then after each ward had a table showing off their sisters' handiwork.
It was way cool and impressive how they work hard to
supplement their incomes. 

This light house from Puntarenas is now near Santa Ana
on Ruta 27

Had Miguel & Marta Aguilar from Santa Ana over for family night.
He's a big time Maya Ruins lover like us.

Returning missionaries seminar with Rodrigo in early March.
You can see the Don Bosco Chapel baptismal font in the background.
That's our special friend/like a daughter Yerling, in the back.

Santa Ana Branch. Elder Pete oftentimes teaches
both the Relief Society sisters & the Priesthood men
during a 3rd hour meeting (or in Sunday School) about Self-Reliance &
the P.E.F. program.  We got lost trying to find the rented
house and they had to come and find us.

A typical day at the Self- Reliance Office with Rodrigo and the Arias'
(Coordinating Couple missionaries from the La Verbena Branch)

Had a great temple experience with other Senior Missionaries,
the Temple Presidency & other temple couples serving full-time,
 doing baptisms for our ancestors. (Thanks Dennis).
Afterwards everyone went to a Peruvian restaurant close to the temple but
Elder Petersen got Papa Johns Pizza (his favorite because they'll
put on extra cheese).

To the temple with our friend Karla Zuniga, her Mom Blanca and boyfriend
Michael Aguilar.

One last trip with the Coleman's before they left for home on March 19.
To Nicoya Peninsula (Playa Montezuma) by ferry from Puntarenas.

Fun to watch the seagulls dive for human treats right out of a lady's hand

There's our RAV4 (last car on the ferry).  We almost had to
wait 2 hours for the next ferry as we arrived just as the ship for horn
was sounding its exit.

Stopped by the Tango Mar Resort in Tambor where
we stayed with Melanie in 2001

This is our cute little hotel in Montezuma (Sano Banano)

The waterfall in Montezuma was pretty disappointing in
the dry season.  They say its spectacular in the wet season.

Catarata Montezuma empties into the pacific ocean (Gulf Nicoya)

Workshop at Toyopan Stake Conference with Elder Cordon of 70
and Rodrigo Rivera