Our Arrival in Ecuador

Hello to all..... well we finally made it to Ecuador yesterday.... but not yet, to our final destination. We arrived in Quito... (it was a piece of cake with customs) good thing.... We were too tired to continue on the last part of our trip to Cuenca, the city where we will be living.

Interesting thing happened yesterday..... we originally had planned to carry all our stuff on the same planes, that we traveled, however late in the game we came to find out that would not be possible.... so.... I may have already mentioned, we had to send everything by LAN Cargo and that arrives later in the week here in Quito.... thus we are staying here until it arrives..... Well the truth is, with all that happened during the last week including the above change in plans, for our "stuff" , I failed to make plans to get a place to stay, (hard to imagine) once we arrived..... I tried to make arrangements while we waited in Lima but everything hit a dead end, once they realized we had a dog...... no one wanted to put up Gracie..... So when we arrived at the airport, we loaded up all our stuff and went to the hotel we stayed at last time we came here, to see if they had room and would accept Gracie..... fortunately for us the owner was here (he travels between his hotels during the week) when he saw me he immediately recognized me and asked how we have been and what brings us back. I explained that we are back, to live here in Ecuador, and we have a few days here in Quito and wondered if they had room (busy season) he said if he did, we are welcome, and they don't allow dogs normally, but "you are friends of the house so of course you can stay with her" or "she can stay in the house with you". That was a real blessing as we didn't know of another place to stay. We got to bed at 8 last night and got up at 9 this morning.... yes we were very tired. We figured we had about 10 hours sleep in the last 72 hours, and most of that very light, mostly uncomfortable sleep. (Mostly..... Tina, with the exception of you our old, your new bed)

Today, we went to see the family that cares for the visas, once brothers arrive here in Ecuador... they too are parents of one child, a son that currently serves in Cuenca and is serving in Chinese, we look forward to meeting him, once we arrive in Cuenca. One other thing.... this family, the husband and wife are serving in English, for those of you that are interested..... and there is a lot of need, according to the sister... here in Quito. A very large city with a congregation of 10 publishers, all in full time service... if you want to serve here in English, get ready to WORK!