Return To La Carpio

How's everyone doing? Hope all is well! We are doing good here in the Lords vineyard! This'll be a short email, but let's get into it! Last pday we played some pickleball and soccer, watched a little but of the chosen, we bought furniture for some apartments. Tuesday was quite interesting! We started exchanges with Don Bosco, and I went up to San Jose with Elder Foxx. We went contacting in La Carpio, and people tell us it's the most dangerous place in Costa Rica, but we survived. We found a shirt from the movie Elf, I forgot to take a picture. We witnessed an older man watch some strange things on Tic Tok while we were taking the bus. We found 2 different raccoons in about 15 minutes, we tried to catch one, but it ran under a gate. Saw lots of people sinning. Then we stopped by Taco bell for dinner and while we were ordering, they were playing Eminem and on one of the TV's there was the movie Alien and also the show Who Wants to be a Millionare. It's probably one of the most interesting Taco Bell environments I've ever been in. We've got a lot of people progressing that we are super excited because! We've had to stop teaching a few because they don't want to go to church. 

Spiritual thought:
D&C 121:45-46 
 45 Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven. 
46 The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee forever and ever.

I love these scriptures because it gives us the recipe to have the holy ghost as our constant companion! And that we can have the doctrine of the priesthood! And it's just a powerful scripture!! 

Pura vida, 
    Elder Kirby

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