Getting Around in Samara/Spanish Service

Wanted to show you a few things about our daily drive in and around Samara, the town we live near. In the pics you'll see a sign that sais "Esterones" this is the area we live in. The pic of the car and river is us getting ready to cross the river to get from samara to our little town. Today was our first day in service in Costa Rica! It was definately different than any service day we have ever had in the states. Alot of the Bro & Sis dont have vehicles here so we meet in different locations throughout the week to accomodate one another. Today we met about 4 km from the hall at the y in the road heading to Nicoya another town about a half hour away. It was alittle confusing since none of the roads have names but I know we'll get used to it soon enough. While we were meeting for service there was a huge turkey hanging out with us so it kept the children entertained while we made our groups. Once we got to the territory the brother who was taking the lead, a special pioneer paired each of us off with a spanish speaking brother or sister who spoke little or no english. I think this is going to help all of us learn spanish. Amber was working with his wife who spoke no english so you can imagine how that went. I was surprised when we all met back from working the territory how well it went. Everyone we talk to is very nice even if they aren't interested in the literature you can still share at least a couple scriptures with them. They always welcome you in ask you to sit down and get some shade from the sun and offer you a drink or refreshment. Another thing we thought was interesting is you dont knock on peoples doors like the states you just yell "Buenas" to let them know you are there. Most of the doors are either open because of the heat or they have no door. Before we knew it we had been out for nearly 4hrs and worked the entire territory, I guess most of the spanish territories here gets worked quite often. But there is still alot of interest. The special pioneer brother "Jair" said he limits himself to 8 studies at a time even though some are known to have up to 30. Friday will be our first english service day, cant wait! We were excited to hear the english group that we are in is getting a 3 day visit from the Circuit Overseer. So we will have our own seperate meeting on Sunday for Public talk and Watchtower. We also found out we are going to have those two meetings in english from now on! Before we got here they were only doing bible study in english. The english group is normally only about 9 publishers so as soon as we got here that number doubled. And I guess there are some more english speaking bro and sis coming from the states soon!