Missionary Kids, Machetes and Ice Cream.

Tomorrow is our last full day here, in Ecuador and it seems like we just arrived last week. We have done so many cool things in these three weeks, and have met a lot of amazing people. Many of these people were in attendance at the Annual Youth World conference this past weekend. We got to meet everyone that works with Youth World, and learn more about the different ministry projects that Youth World is doing. The eight of us were responsible for all of the kids at this conference, so the adults could go to the sessions. The conference was held at El Refugio, a ministry site of Youth World an hour north of Quito. This camp has everything from a zip-line to a cuy (guinea pig) coop. .Unfortunately, we have not had the chance to try cuy yet, which is one thing that Rylee especially, has been hoping to do, but perhaps we will get to try it tomorrow at the market.

Today we traveled to Mindo, and went ZIP-LINING!!! We went on 13 different zip-lines over the cloud forest, which was an awesome experience that I won't soon forget. On the way back to Quito, we stopped at the equator, where we witnessed water draining in opposite directions on either side of the line, and learned the steps in shrinking a human head. It was a great learning experience indeed. The rest of our day has included us playing seemingly countless rounds of dutch blitz, buying machetes and going for ice cream at Corfu.

It is crazy to think of all of the different things we have seen, people we've met, and cool things that we have had the chance to be a part of. I am so thankful for being given the chance to come to Ecuador for my first mission "experience." God is definitely at work here, in Ecuador, and I certainly have been blessed in being able to join in with what He is doing, even if only for a short time.