let the adventures begin. . .

Notes from the planes. . .

I´m on the plane flying to Houston, Texs!!! God is so amazing, He has showed me so much getting ready for this trip. He has built my faith through His amazing provision, He has displayed His love for me through His Word, His people, and just everyday life!

Wow, I am now on the plane to Quite and I am becoming more and more amazed at the God we serve. It has been God appointments all day long. I keep meeting people from Quito, and having interesting conversations, and basically each one in turn has offered me their contact info. The people of Quito are hurting and I pray God lets me be a part of the healing. . .

Well, yesterday as I flew from Newark to Houston, and Houston to Quito God really encouranged me. My Mom brought me the airport and helped me get all checked in, I went through security and walked to my gate. When I got there I sat down, and then realized I needed to use the restroom, so I got up and when I came back my seat was taken. I proceeded to sit down between these two guys. One was older and the other around my age, and somehow I found out the older man was from Quito and did not speak any English. The guy around my age, Ghandi is his name as I found out, was from Quito as well. Ghandi and I began to talk and he told me all these interesting things about his homeland was just really nice. We boarded the plane, and I was seated next to a hispanic woman. I was hoping that I would get an opportunity to share Christ, but she did not seem interested in talking at all, she put in earplugs. . . lol. Well later on, towards the end of the flight, we began to talk, that is as much as we could. All she spoke was Spanish, and she, Mariana is her name, was from Quito as well, so between her Spanish, my mix of Spanish and Engligh and our made up sign language we talked. We both had the same connecting flight and decided to walk together. Ghandi met up with us as we came off the plane, and then low and behold, Alyssa Martin was in front of me!!! For those of you who do not know who she is, she is the sister of Bre, and we also went to college, Elim, together. She was on her way back from Ecuador to Maine! So that was really cool.

Now that Ghandi was with Mariana and I, he could translate for us and we all hung out together. Mariana it turns out houses a lot of foriegn exchange students, mostly from Europe. Mariana was the first, and she wanted to give me her contact info, and told me if I needed anything, ect. . . then Ghandi wanted to give me his as well, and did. . .

We boarded the flight bound for Quito, the adventure was not over yet. . . I was seated next to another woman, who seemed to be the silent type as well, but somehow we got talking, and man God is amazing! She gave me her contact info as well, but the more amazing thing was she opened up to me, and began sharing what was happening in her life, I felt so privelaged. . . We shall see what God does with the beginning friendship. . .

Now, I can´t tell you about the flight to Quito without mentioning Monster! lol, Monster, also known as Sebastian, was a little boy seated in front of me that decided we were going to be friends, and have some fun. . . lol. So throughout my flight he peppered me with questions, Why is the sky blue?. . . Because God made it blue. . . and the list goes on, he added so much joy to my flight. . .

Now, today. . . I know this blog update has been rather long, lol. . . feel free to read what you like. . .

Went went to the Basilica, Dannielle, Bre, Javiar and I. Javiar took us there, and he is a native Ecuadorian, but it was his first time there as well, we had such a blast! Now this is where safety goes out the window. . . well not totally, but we could have never done what we did today in the states, it was soooo much fun! We saw the catatcombs underneath the Basilica, we climbed to the top of the Basilica in different areas, pretended we were gargoyles, yeah, we are ridiculous. . . You just have to see the pictures from today!

Well, that´s all for now, and im sure if your reading this your happy im finished with my long dialouge. . . hehe, I love you guys! I hope all is going well there! God Bless, In Him, Sarah