April 21

Hey guys. this week was super awesome. Alot of interesting things happend but super cool! we had 18 lessons this week!! just 3 short of the standards of excellence for the mission. we actually almost had everything perfect minus a baptism:( but it's all good! we're trying to build this area into an area where we can have a baptism every week. That's one of the goals that president has put for us. A little tough but anything is possible with the Lord. Actually we have a baptismal date with two young men named Marlon and Diego for the 4th of may and another for the 11th of may with a man named Cesar. And we have a lot of dates that we're planning on putting this week. We had 8 investigators go to church this week and that's only have of our good ones! I love the willingness of Elder Diaz. He's such a great missionary. I feel like i'm learning so much from him even though i'm senior companion. Tell tyler to get better. And that i'm super happy and proud of him for giving up smoking. I know that it will help him during his life. Keep me updated. I love you guys tons and hope that all goes well this week. 

Love Drake

April 14

Hey guys i just had an awesome week this week. I'm still in Tibás por dicha( thank goodness). And my companion is Elder Diaz. Who is the man. He is super awesome. And we're totally going to kill it together. I just hope that i'll have two changes with him. Wow i can't believe that we're already starting week 3 together. The time is going by way to fast. That's cool that you guys are in Las Vegas i'm sure it's kinda nice to be in warm weather after an awesome idaho winter. We're just about to start rain season here which i'm not really looking forward to. Whooo rain everyday for 5 to 6 months! It's going to be so interesting haha. If you could send me videos of ashton playing football that would be so awesome.  But wow this week has been so great.  This week we found a couple families and they were really interested. One of them was such a random contact because we were in a really poor and dangerous part of our area and then there was this massive really nice house in the middle of all the dumpy houses. And we were just like hmm do you think they would listen to us. We said no but we thought it would just be fun to try so we went and knocked on the door and they invited us in and we had a lesson with them. Then this sunday they came to all of church. This experience really helped me out a ton. It helped me realize that God has prepares people for us no matter what there situation is whether they're poor or rich. EVERYONE needs the gospel in there lives. Everyone. I love you guys and thank you so much for the support. I love this gospel and the oppurtunity i have to share it with the Ticos of Costa Rica. I love them so much and i'm just so grateful to be able to be here with them. 

Love Drake

April 7

Hello family.

Wow how great was general conference. I loved it. I thought it was so spiritual. The only bad part was that i had to watch it in spanish:( which is alright because i can understand it all. It's just super hard to concentrate on the talkers when it's the voice of some Latino haha. My new companion is Elder Diaz. He is so awesome. He has 7 months in the mission and he is from colombia. He is such a great missionary i know that we will have success together. And now the mission leader is helping us with the members and they all are on our side and ready to help us out. I love the member here so much they are literally the best. I really hope that i can be here for 2 changes more. But i don't know because elder Diaz is such a beast i'm pretty sure he'll be training next change. But we'll see what happens.  Oh ya i got my package thanks so much for the cereal and the books. YOu guys are the best. I'm already learning so much from the book Doctrine of Salvation i would totally recommend that to you guys. Um question i wanted to know what is the mail address of Tyler, Brianne and Mark. If you guys could get that to me that would be awesome i love you guys tons. 

Love Drake.

March 31

Hey guys awesome week this Holy Week. Wow holy week here is such a huge thing. Everyone has work off and all the stores are closed then everyone goes to the beach haha. But it was a pretty good week we had a lot of success. This week however has started off pretty slow because my companion has changes and so he just goes around saying goodbye to everyone. But i'm excited to recieve my new companion tomorrow and go to work. That's cool you had the sisters over for dinner i wish he had that happen a little more often here hah. Because i am always hungry now and it just seem like i never can get enough food hah. That's cool that tyler and Court were up in idaho this week. That would of been fun. But i'm here in costa rica. By the way tyler costa rica isn't an island haha. That's so awesome that graham got his call to mexico. He'll also know spanish now! Oh ya can you ask Debbie to write taylor and ask if my letter ever got to him. For general conference here everyone goes to the church or watches it on the internet in there house because it's not on the tv here.But i'm so excited for general conference this week. I love it so much more out here in the mission because all the messages are just what our investigators need to here. So the goal this week is to get all of our investigators to go to conference. But ya anyways i love Costa Rica the time is going by way to fast and life is just so awesome right now. I love you guys

Love Drake