Thursday

Today we held an evangelistic meeting in the nearby town of Alajuela. One of the ladies at church owned a restaurant in Alajuela and she let us use the place. In fact they have fellowship meetings there every Thursday from 9-10:30am. Again this is to accommodate the restaurant and shop owners that cannot break away from their business on Sunday Morning.

The service went well. We lead worship, ChowLing and Edith gave a testimony of their conversion and Pastor Stanley gave the message. There were no new comers during the service. It looked like our visitation on Tuesday did not produce any results. However, after we ended one guy walked in who wanted to attend the service. So ChowLing and Kenny talked to him.

After that we had free time. Pastor Stanley and ChowLing did some more personal visitation in the local area around the missionary house. The rest of us went to a shopping mall nearby. There we saw a shop that was selling some very nice cakes and we thought about that ChowLing and Jenny’s 28 year anniversary was today. However, we could not keep it simple, so we device a plan to surprise them.

Brother TK Mak had invited us to have dinner at his restaurant in Ciudad Colon. So we thought that was the perfect place and time to pop the surprise. So at first we surprised them with a very small cup cake explaining that we could not find anything better. Then we asked them to close their eyes and pray. Then we swapped the small cupcake with the real cake that we also bought. It worked out really well since both of them were very surprised.

Brother TK Mak said to his wife “I love you” as a result of the brother’s retreat. See what a happy couple!