More of Ecuador

So........ after our Wed FS with Mark & Beth we did the tour of Cuenca.  It consists of 1 1/2 hr on bus tour in & around Cuenca. Got the history, how old Cuenca is, est 1536 by Spanish, etc. There was a light rain off & on, but the tour was very interesting, and helped  to see overall the geography of Cuenca.

Here are some pics.
So then thursday was travel day back to guayaquil for english convention. After a 3hr delay we made it to Guayaquil & our hotel, and just crashed there. Had to wash & iron clothes for mtg next day.
We were able to deliver a laptop to some friends at convention they asked us to bring from states. And they were happy to get the laptop.

  At the convention we caught a cab, didn't know the friends had arranged a charter bus to take group from city out to convention/branch. But made it there, and was stunned to see what a facility there was for convention! Flowers everywhere, landscaped beautifully, and the brothers & sisters were so friendly, and introduced themselves willing to us travelers. I have listed several pics from convention so will only post a few, to give you an idea of the overall setting.
  Obviously the convention program we had heard at St. Charles. But at that convention I took extensive notes, whereas here in Guayaquil I just listened and looked up scriptures. So enjoyed that. In addition the comments at this convention was so geared to the ones attending, needgreaters, pioneers, missionaries, FT servants, that it was hard not to be moved by what these bros & sisters are doing, they just don't give a talk about serving Jehovah where the need is great, they have done it! Carrys a ring of conviction with their talks. It was just the thing we needed to go from spying out the land to looking at our circumstances and saying, What is stopping us? So that is where we are at. Trying to arrange our situation to being able to go. We'll keep you posted on our efforts.