Our first Saturday we decided we wanted to visit the temple. Well remember how in my last post I said there are no street names? Let me expound upon that idea: while planning to visit the temple we didn't know how to get there and our options are bus, walking, or taxi. But since there are street names there are no names for the bus stop and no recorded routes so if you don't know what the place looks like you won't know when to get off. (Our first day we totally missed the stop to our house...). We looked up walking directions on google maps but they looked like this:
Turn right
Turn left
500 meters turn left
Turn right
So taxi it was. But when we walked to the nearest church and found a taxi the taxi drive didn't seem to understand the "address" we had written down so we were a little nervous as we headed off. I just sat there praying in my head and thinking we are completely at the mercy of this taxi driver. I have no idea whatsoever where we are or how to get there and I can hardly communicate with this man. But after he asked a couple people for directions we saw it!! It was SO exciting. I can't even describe how relieved we were.
Walking through the rain to find a taxi. 
We found the temple!!
In the temple there happened to be a number of people who spoke English!! Which was wonderful because they were able to explain how to get back to Heredia seeing as we had no idea at all! They told us there was a bus that left every hour so after taking a couple pictures we saw it pulling up a little ways away and sprinted towards it barely making it. Thank goodness we didn't have to wait an hour!
After that it was very evident that we were blessed to find everything and not get lost without any problems as we traveled to the Capitol San Jose. There we ate lunch walked around and visited the national museum or money and oro (gold). It was neat but the neatest part was definitely the fact that we found our way around. It's tricky because we don't speak Spanish very well, we stand out, and we don't want to ask directions making ourselves stand out even more, can I even emphasize enough how much we stand out...!?
Then on Sunday we looked up a couple church buildings and finally found the one we thought would be easiest to find. After getting off the buses with directions as memorized as we could have them (like I said, we try not to look lost and we don't like to pull out or phones too much) we immediately spotted the missionaries!! They happened to be walking by right as we left so that was quite a blessing. Not only that but the girl from the temple who had given us directions and spoken English and Spanish was in this ward! So she was able to help us with where to go for classes and such. Church was wonderful and Maren and I are just still so amazed how many tender mercies there were that happened this weekend alone.
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