Quito Blog: Sun. June 21, 2009

Happy Fathers Day. We arrived safely late last night and were very tired. In the morning we awoke feeling refreshed. We met up with Bob Goyette. There were people running a marathon in the streets outside the hotel. All of the streets were closed off to traffic, but we managed to catch a bus to "Reconciliation" anyway to attend service.

Father Drew gave a sermon and Betty Whaley translated it. We then went with the Parish to see what needed to be fixed and/or built etc. They have many projects to work on, so many that we need to use our resources and time wisely. After our meeting with the parish we went to La Mitad Del Mundo or the equatorial line monument at 0 degrees latitude.

The skies opened up on us and soaked us, then snow and hail came down from the mountain caps. It went from 72 and sunny to rain, snow, and hail. We than went to meet with the Bishop, Father Ramos, and the Bishop to be, Father Luis Ruiz. Our meeting was very progressive and upbeat.

We feel that our partnership is moving in a positive direction and can only get stronger. We have good loving ties with our friends in Ecuador.

Please excuse that cannot send photos at this time - I will put them on later, thank you Brian