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May 13 ***
This morning it is Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day!
A view from my window this morning.
We are going to a resturant called Pronto Tacos today for Mother's Day. They PROMISE to have REAL Mexican food and Mariachi's. I'm looking forward to it.
The only thing missing is my kids and my parents!
I love You.
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If you can remember, I mentioned at the very beginning of my blog our friend Angel from the airport. Finally here is a picture of him. He gave us a little treat yesterday by bringing out an instrument. He called it by a different name but I looked it up and it is called a Concertina. It was developed in the 1800's in different versions by England and Germany. He says it is difficult to play and it took him quite a long while to find one.
This past week we traveled to Guayaquil to stock up on church supplies and buy a few things and visit the Pastor and family in the church there. It was so hot, in the 100's.
The population is over 4 million and so crazy, but I kinda like it there except for the heat.
Still, I was glad to be getting back home to Cuenca.
Entering Guayaquil
THE DRIVE
The drive reminds me of the trip from Las Vegas NM to Albuquerque, except the mountains are so much bigger and the highway a little difficult to navigate with rock slides and poor visibility because of the clouds.
In the picture below you can see the line right above the guardrail. That's a view of the highway. At this point I'm just holding my arm up and out the window and just snapping pictures to see what comes out. I really don't like looking down. It is a very long, long, long way down.
See that little horizontal line halfway down on the left, that's the road from the previous picture. You can see about a third of the way down.
These big guys are everywhere. This one was trying to cross the freeway and I mean was trying.
This picture is near and dear to me. The flag in front of the US Consulate. I'm only showing the flag because I got in trouble taking a picture of the building from down the street. I can understand the reasoning and I must of left my brains at home.
It was good to see our friends from the church in Guayaquil, Pastor Anibal and his family. His daughter Priscilla taught me a great worship song to take back and I taught them
'Father in Heaven' in Spanish.
Pastor Anibal praying for the sick.
My hubby ministering in Spanish. It is finally coming along, but we both have a long way to go to feel comfortable with our Spanish.
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Hi All!
I just fixed up a pot of extra hot red chili and some beans for dinner. Yum. As I took my first bite, I had this strange sensation.
I thought that I would fall off my chair and the table seemed to be moving. WOW - - that is some chili!!! But wait, the flowers in my little potted mini garden are waving at me! WHAT!
I was so relieved to realize that I wasn't having some strange medical emergency, because my husband was experiencing the same thing. Everything really was moving. Sure enough we looked up the earthquake recording center and there was a 4.7 magnitude quake between here and Guayaquil.
Most people probably didn't even notice it.
Now, I promised you some picts from the town of Yunquilla.
It's less than an hour from Cuenca. Earlier this month our landlord very graciously offered to take us there. She also offered us a room at her home for the night. Since we are not familiar with all the little towns that surround us we took her up on it.
I am so glad that we have a truck because
the roads can be a little rough.
Here we go.....
On the highway, uh..., pick just one lane please.
Yunqilla, the town
Turn down this little road
Surely it must be just around the corner....
Not quite there, but just look at the mountains. It's like living in the clouds.
Finally we have arrived. It took a little bit of manuevering to get up here,
but I'll spare you all that
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What a view.
As evening came there was a power outage. The town was in darkness for more than four hours. Now how in the world will we amuse ourselves.
Here is the solution.
CANDLE MEETS IPAD
For a competitive game of checkers.
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In the morning the landscape takes on an otherworldy appearance when the clouds drift in and around the lush green mountains.
God's creation is truly beautiful.
The pictures don't even do it justice, but it will have to do.
To my family and friends:
I miss you and love you and wish you could be here with me or me there with you.
I keep you always in my thoughts and in prayer.
We've run into some obstacles when trying to obtain a building for
the church, so if you could keep that in mind and pray for us,
I'd really appreciate it.
