Back to quito from the jungle

hey everyone!

i hope your summer is going as well as mine is. whats news in your part of the world?

yesterday evening i got back to quito from same, a town on the northwestern coast of ecuador. i had been staying there with a missionary family and a family from the states who does alot of supporting of missions here in ecuador. we were staying at the missions house until friday when we flew into santo domingo de oncele. Fred Schmidt flew us into a small airstrip in the northern jungle which was quite the experience in its self. the air strip is on the top of a ridge that has been cleared of trees, however, on one end the strip is 200ft above sea level and on the other end it is 250, which makes for an interesting landings. this strip was just opened 2 years ago but hasnt been used that often so it was a bit rough on the landings. also, part of the strip wants to wash away so they have to keep on that.

anyways, so we landed in this village and all these kids come running out to meet the plane. they just want to touch it, grab onto you and talk with you. it was a riot. ha. we take a tour of the village and they show us the whole place from thier jail to their churches and school.

one guy shows us 2 partially dug out canoes, the kind that they take a tree trunk and hollow it out, and explains about them. appearently a person who is good at making canoes can make 1 USD a day for working on the canoe and one canoe takes about 30 days! that is alot of hard hot work for only earning 30 USD.

afterevery body gets flow in, we load up in canoes and head off down the rio oncele which was amazing! all the jungle around you! wow! a few hours down the river and we are picked up by 2 buses and driven back down the coast to same.

anyways, then, yesterday we came back to quito.

this week is going to be cool!

first i hope to help out at pan de vida again this wednesday (a ministry to poor ecuadorians living in quito) then we are going to go to the old city and do a bit of tourism on friday, and then on saturday we are going to drive down to SHELL!!! (the homebase of nate saint and jim elliot) im not sure how long we will stay in shell, but i may have the opportunity to go out into the jungle with a missions team and also help in the hospital in shell. it should be an amazing time!!!

Here are the pictures from this week. i finally got them uploaded!

http://creighton.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2034265&l=3ee9a&id=32504808

let me know if you have trouble seeing them

in christ

-david