One last look at Ecuador!

Hey all!!!!

i hope your summer is going well!

i am currently sitting in my room in quito packing up my bags for my 640am flight tomorrow! these last 6 weeks have flown by and i am just tryinig to tie up some loose ends before i head back to the states.

this last week and a half has been pretty cool as i have traveled to shell and back.

we traveled down the friday before last and did some tourist things. we toured a old plantation, ate mora icecream, saw the volcanos tunguragua, cotopaxi, and sanguay, took a cable car over a waterfall, and visited a balsa wood store.

when we got down to shell we toured the Alas de Socorro (Ecuadorian Mission Aviation Fellowship) hangar and the HCJB Hospital Vozandes. We also got a tour of the house that Nate Saint built and lived in while he worked here in ecuador which was amazing!

it really boggles your mind when you show up to a spot that youve heard so much about growing up, a place with so much history and spiritual significance in the flow of time. just seeing it was pretty amazing. seeing his house, the runway, and his legacy. we also heard all sorts of stories about him and other missionaries that have given to the cause of christ.

one story as related by Fred Schmidt (the MAF missionary i am staying with, who also grew up in shell ecuador) was about those men who killed nate saint and the rest. within the last few years mincaye has been traveling and talking about his experience. while listening to some music with the people he is traveling with, he suddenly got very silent and then excited and said, "thats what we heard!" however he was not understood. when the song was played again he said "thats what we heard when it happened!" later, at a church he was talking at he saw the choir and then got excited again saying, "thats what we saw" appearently while the killings were happening the saw and heard these beings,possibly angels, and immediately afterward ran and hid farway in the jungle because they realized what they did was wrong and were afraid of these beings who were in the air! when asked why they didnt tell anyone they replied that they were afriad that everyone would think that they were crazy!

wow.

anyways, there were many other stories and amzing times. wow again.

so i worked at the hospital with a nurse while i was down there which was very interesting! they definitely do not do things the way we do in the states!!!! man o man.

so i helped with 2 endoscopes which was an experience in and of itself! so, the girl comes in and they give her a sedative, but they dont have enough of the right equipment to put her completely out, moniters and such, so they leave her semiconsious while they shove this tube down her throat!!!!! so here i am holding her hands, with my one elbow holding her hip and the other hand holding her shoulder so she cant move and fight!!! ha! what a good time! man was that interesting! but i got to see a scope done and see the insides of some people.

i also helped by doing vital signs for the nurses and changing beds, which leads to another interesting story. so here i am cleaning a bed with this cleaning agent and the nurse asks me if i know what im using, and i of course say no. she turns and smiles at me and says..... "moon shine" apperently buying a high proof sugarcane RUM is cheaper than a regular bleach or other antiseptic! ha!

anyways, there are many more stories that i can tell when i get back.

here are some of the pictures for the week

http://creighton.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2035085&l=059a5&id=32504808

im flying back to omaha on delta flight 4509 and should get in at 8:24pm on wednesday night.

allrighty then

i will see yall soon

-david