Posts Tagged "Ecuador"

Imagine being a mom in the jungle of Ecuador...

When you've been waking up at 5:45 all week, 7:30 feels like a luxury. Morning came with a leisurely delay on the seventh day of our mission trip to Ecuador...

If there’s one thing that construction workers hate worse than a hot sun, it’s rain. As morning dawned in Misahualli on Day 6 of our mission trip to Ecuador, the skies were filled with charcoal clouds and sporadic drips of rain.  By breakfast, the inconsistent drizzle had blossomed into a full-blown thunder storm, complete with work-stopping lightning.  The nice thing was that the deluge gave us a few extra minutes in the morning to have some devotional time that we missed the night before. Once the rain lightened and our time together was completed, we piled in the bus and made our way to the Jungle Kids campus for the fourth day of construction on the new house we’re building.  The house will be used for a missionary family that is moving from Georgia...

You know you're in the jungle when a monkey steals your seat. As Day 5 of our Ecuador mission trip began, the monkeys were up and ready to go from the break of dawn. Whether playing in the park or running all over the roof of our hostel during breakfast, they made quite a racket but were lots of fun to watch.

They say the best way to learn a language is "cultural immersion". If that's true, then the second day of building in Misahualli was a perfect learning experience for the construction team as they found themselves in what the Ecuadorians call "lodo". In English, we call it mud.