Ibarra

Linda, Jill and I left Ipiales on Monday morning and headed to Ibarra by way of two taxis (1 - across the border into Ecuador & 2 - from the border to the bus terminal), one bus and another taxi (Ibarra bus terminal to one of two shopping malls in Ibarra).  We had lunch in the patio de comidas (food court) at the mall and then hung out for a while as we waited for the appropriate time to head to our home for the night.  When we arrived at Sra. Patricia's, she welcomed us warmly and let us "rest" for a little bit until our first of three studies for the day at 5:00 pm.  We had three lovely studies that evening.  1) 5:00 pm - Matt. 13:24-end with Anaí  I would guess A to be in her early teens.  The sisters workers started studying with a couple of ladies a few years ago in the mornings.  When the daughters of two of the ladies heard about the workers and the studies, they wanted their own studies.  Since they are in school during the day, evening studies for the two girls were arranged.  Camili was unable to make the Monday study this week since she and her mother were moving house.  However, she did join us for the Tuesday morning study since she was on vacation from school.  2) 7:00 pm - Matt. 11 with Rodolfo's mother  Rodolfo is a man that Jill met on a bus some time ago.  After talking with Jill on the bus trip, he declared that he would be interested in learning more about the Bible.  His mother also expressed an interest, and the workers have studied with them since that time (not yet a year).  Rodolfo was unable to come this week, but his mother gladly received us.  3) 9:00 pm - midweek study (Zechariah 3 & 4 with assorted references) with Sra. Patricia  Fortunately, we arrived home from the second study early enough to have supper before the midweek study.  Also fortunately, the last study started on time.  Neither of those two things are a given!  Needless to say, we were ready for bed when the time came!

Tuesday morning, we had one more study in Sra. Patricia's home.  We studied Mark 7.  Since it was Jill and Linda's last time to be there for a while, we took a picture after the study.  Here are the ladies.

Patricia, Jill, Jenny, Linda

Eli, Camili, Sandra

We were sorry not to get a picture of Anaí, but maybe I can make that happen another time.  

This group of ladies to me illustrates the verse, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."  May it ever be so.