Salami Shortage....

Just wanted to give a few updates...and some more pictures... just for your enjoyment!

Ronnie and I hiked down Pululahua again last saturday. We had bibles with us, and we had the intentions of giving them to Rolando, the man who accepted Christ while hiking last week. On the way down there were about 20 ecuadorians hiking up the volcano all with shovels, picks, and other various tools.. i guess today was their day to maintain the trails. It was nuts, there were even ladies (older looking) that were out there working away...

As we approached his gate, we started walking uphill to his house/restaurant. All of a sudden we see four dogs jetting right for us! We were trapped, with no where to go... no tree to climb, no fence to hop, no stick to beat them with... All I was thinking was, "God, ok here we are just trying to give some bibles out, and your gonna let us be attacked and mutilated by some dogs?!" luckily Ronnie is good with dogs and he calmed them down..all was good... Just kidding God, I knew it would be ok! heh..Rolando wasn't there, so we left the bibles with a couple workers who were there.

After we came out we were both starving! Oh yeah, i found out since i got there that I really like salami! Weird huh? Mom, im trying new things...anyways... we were both craving some salami so we could make sandwiches.. i think we went to about 6 or 7 stores and no one had any salami! How could there be a salami shortage in Ecuador?? Defeated, we trekked back to the house, and we decided to check one last store... and praise the Lord...Salami! heh... it truly was a great sandwich.

This week I will be working with a team from Charlotte, NC, who will primarily be doing street evangelism here in North Quito. Yesterday we had 3 salvations and 1 re-dedication! It rained a lot yesterday in the afternoon...man did it come down hard. So instead of letting mother nature ruin our plans, we had an impromptu worship time. There was about 20 of us who all got together in one room, with no power, singing and praising God, all the while it was raining and thundering outside... it was an amazing time. Afterwards, Phil (my SC) had a very timely message/devotion for us...

Another amazing thing happend last night. Our Evening worship service was about to start at 6:00, but right before, the neighboring Quechaua church, inviting the whole team to come over and hear them sing. I was excited bc i heard from Phil how amazing and powerful it is to hear them sing praises in their heart language. So the whole team files into this church, the room is dark bc the power is still out, and there are a couple hundred Quechua sitting down. What was weird is that they made us all go up to the front of the church, and stand in front of some high risers, as if we were the ones who were gonna be singing! We were all looking around like," I thought they were gonna sing for us!" So with the help of a dinky little cd player, about 15 of us sang ( i forget the title but it goes, 'faithfuness, faithfulness is what i long for..') for the congregation. Afterwards they sang for us two songs, that were absolutely beautiful. Even though I could not understand anything they were saying, i knew they were praising our Lord. It truly was a rich time of worship...in the dark.. with ppl we all just met...singing in another language... i will never forget that feeling... the feeling that God was right there soaking it all up.

Well, the pictures are taking forever again to upload... they will be up soon...stay tuned!