Elder Kyle McOmber: My 1st week in Costa Rica!

Hey y'all,

It's my first week here in Costa Rica. It's been quite interesting. My comp speaks nearly no English and I don't speak a lot of spanish. That has been interesting. Another interesting thing that happened this week was fast sunday yesterday. We had been fasting for almost 22 hours so We are literally dead tired and SO flipping hungry right? and we're walking to the chapel to do studies and stuff for our last two hours before we can eat. And all of the sudden I can just smell smoke, like wood smoke, and I realize, Oh my gosh they're making smores! Dude I have no words to describe how good it smelled. I'm sure there were guardian angels to help me out because if there wasn't I think I would have just died right there on the spot. Man I wanted those things SO bad! Definitely gonna buy some smores at some point in these two years. Sounds so delicious, oh my!!

Other than the blessing of great food. This week has been pretty tough. I've never felt so exhausted. Like oh man, It's hard work. However when you do work that works you to your core ya know? It shows you what really matters. There's one thing that has been keeping me going when everything else fails. It's that I have a SOLID foundation. Like Helaman 5:12 is a FACT. Even through all the crap that sometimes gets in our way and gets in our life. With all our seemingly impossible trials and challenges and sometimes hopelessness. There is only one place you can go that will stand firm through it all. The rock of your Redeemer. So if you are going through these things. If you don't think you can make it out of your pit you've fallen into, that's ok, for Christ is standing just on top with a rope. All you gotta do is call to Him.

Love y'all mucho!

El buen trabajo continua,

Elder Kyle McOmber

one of my epic mtc teachers❤️