Cowboy Fellowship Blog: Quito Update #1

Today was our first full day in Quito, Ecuador and it was amazing. Our journey yesterday was smooth except for a delay in Houston for just over an hour. So we did not arrive in Quito till midnight and it was about 12:40 am before we got through customs, claimed our luggage, and met up with Amanda. We made it to their house about 1:20 and the kids were both wide awake and ready to play so we did not actually go to sleep till about 2:30am. Today we went out and looked at the church we will be working on and coordinated with a few people about supplies and the scope of the work project. While I worked on that Peter made friends with some of the children who we plan to minister to in the days ahead. The kids were so nice to Peter and despite a huge age gap they invited him to play soccer with them while I worked on getting the project set up. It is so cool the way children can play together and make friends in such a short time. Tonight we ate here with the Castro's and got the kids in bed by 8:30. We followed that up with some great fellowship time with Larry and Amanda. Tomorrow the foundation work starts at the church so the concrete will be set and ready to go when our team arrives Friday. We are also going to get all of the food for the team and organize a few other things. The weather has been AMAZING!!!! At night the temperature settles in the low 50's, and today I think the high was around 75! We have not seen much of the country but the little we have seen is beautiful. Quito is in the Andes and there are mountains all around us and the scenery is wonderful in any direction you look.

Dominica lives above Larry and Amanda and she is going to help us over the next week and a half. Hadley never goes straight to people but she loved Dominica! What a blessing!