Hola! para Ecuador!

Hey Everyone! This is just a quick update on how things are going. Right now we are in Guayaquil at Howard Johnson´s. We made the flight yesterday and now are awaiting our connection to Cuenca which is at 6:30 this evening.

Wow, well what to say. Even though we didn´t make our original flight, God has really been with us the whole way through. We had a great time in serious prayer and assessing what our priorities are for this mission yesterday. One verse that really stood out for me is Prov. 16:9. We can plan all we want to in advance, but God is the decider of all that happens. I think this has been a good lesson at least for me in trusting God in every area of my life, especially in travel. He has an amazing way of showing us what we need to give over to Him.

Thank you everyone for your prayers! They are felt!

Blessings, Catey

Greetings from Guayaquil, Ecuador

Sunday February 24, 10:30am

The trip has been fun so far, and it is really beautiful here. I’ll try to get some pictures.

The flight from Manchester was pretty cool, and the hotel we stayed in at Atlanta was ok too. The flight to Quito was long, all six and a half hours of it. There were two movies on the flight, and I finished a book. I sat in the middle of a three-seat row. The person to my left was going to Ecuador for a business trip and the person to my right was native to Ecuador and flying home.

Out of the six Bible verses our group was to memorize, we have four of them down. Jamie has the first, Sam the second, and I have the fifth and sixth (it really was a long flight).

We arrive at Quito last night at about ten, then flew onto Guayaquil, and, after going through customs, (which wasn’t that bad), arrived at the hotel by about midnight. I knew it was going to be warm here, but the humidity surprised me.

I also just went through a harrowing trial of brushing my teeth without using the water from the tap, which wasn’t much fun until I discovered the 2 bottles of Howard Johnson´s water in the bathroom.

It is really nice here. Even the air is beautiful, and the palm trees don’t hurt any either.

Anyway, we are going to plan our day now, so I´ll write more later.

Adios!

CT Spaulding