Well, I didn't write a blog Saturday so this one will have to cover Saturday and Sunday. On saturday we got to be tourists for a while. Most of us had an excursion in the rainforest--although a few went to the beach. I went to the rainforest. Getting there took about an hour of driving--and a little more to get ready and get to the station. The first thing we did was zip-lining. Here's how it works, you wear a harness, which attaches to a long cord above your head. You then lift your feet off of the ground and slide down the line. The lines we were going on were about 50 feet in the air--and the views of the rainforest were absolutely beautiful. Once we were back on the ground we took a hike through the forest, it was really something. The plants look exactly like the ones you see in pictures, except they were real.


On Sunday we went to two church services, one in the "Mansion of Light" y le otre en "Cinco esquinas." Mansion of Light is in a very worn down neighborhood--but the people were clean and nice. They played a lot of music. The music was wonderful--even though we didn't know what they were saying. I figured it was about Jesus and/or God, and they seemed like they meant it. It was a very different feeling, trying to worship without knowing the words. Anyway, after some music they introduced us, the whole congregation came up and shook hands with us. Afterwards Bob Ogle and my dad, Mark Hussung, played amazing grace, and then I played the old rugged cross. Then they had a sermon--althogh we had to leave in the middle.
At Cinco Esquinas, again, they played a lot of music--which seems to be common in Costa Rica, and then welcomed us. The neighborhood they were in was nicer than Mansion of Light. After the music they had a sermon, and they had a translator tell us the sermon in English. It was nice to be able to follow along. After the sermon they played a little more music, and then we were done. The rest of the day we saw a cathedral, the ruins of a cathedral, and went shopping. Tomorrow we start working.