This past Saturday, Linda and I traveled from Cuenca to Gualaquiza by bus. By the route that we went, it's about a five hour trip and is quite beautiful - going down the mountains and into the jungle. Due to rain and general gloom and a dirty bus window, I didn't take any pictures on the trip.
On Sunday, Linda and I had our little fellowship meeting all alone in the bach. There are no friends in that part of the field yet. Then we traveled about an hour by ranchera to the "pueblo" of Sakanás for a couple of studies. As it turned out, only one of the studies worked out, but then we had a little visit with a brother of the lady with whom we had studied who had some questions about what we believe and what we do. This was the last visit to that part of the field before Special Meetings, so we had to tell them that no workers would be back until the end of June or the first part of July. It makes us especially glad that the work is God's and that He sees everyone everywhere.
On Sunday evening, we arrived to our evening study with Nancy at 6:00 as she had requested. She owns a little grocery store, and usually the study with her is later, since she's busy attending her customers. However, she said 6:00, so we went at 6:00. At 7:00, we finally decided that maybe we should just go get something to eat and come back. It wasn't that there were so many customers all at once, but when one left, another came, and there was no way that we were going to be able to have a study under those circumstances. We found a little restaurant a few blocks away that was open, had a bite of supper and returned to Nancy's store, beginning our study around 8:00. And so it goes.
Our two studies on Monday were both in the evening, so we had a bit of a restful day.
On Tuesday morning, we left Gualaquiza at 10:00 and traveled to Los Encuentros for a study with Vanessa.
We got on the wrong road for a while walking to Vanessa, but at least it was picturesque!
After lunching and studying with Vanessa, we got another bus to Yantzaza, where we studied with Corina, Anita and Ángel. Then another three hours on the bus to Loja and we called it a day!
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