So, I´m liking the idea of doing photojournals for these trips, so forgive the pictures =)
Our plane the beautiful mountain city we flew into to take a 6 hr. bus to the destination town. When we finally got there, our friend met us there, and we went to go find a hostal and get situated. It was late, so our friend went back to his house, and we went to bed. That next morning, we went out to grab breakfast and ended up finding some women who wanted to study the Bible later that day. It turned out to be something much bigger than that. =)
We brought an audioBible in Quechua, which is their native language. We were sitting around listening to Luke about when Jesus died on the cross.
We also brought bracelets with symbols explaining the gospel on them. So that gave us some opportunities to talk to people about the gospel.
Look who I found in the street! So cute...
Two ladies that I got to talk to for a little while, and a precious little boy that just liked hanging out there with us.
Part of a family that was walking by
Mom and baby
Many of the woman in this town carry all kinds of things on their back...sometimes their children, sometimes clothes or food or things they have bought.
Cuties.
Explaining: Jesús Cristo vino a la tierra, muro en la cruz, resucito al tercer día, se fue al cielo, y algun día va a regresar para las personas que han dado su vida a él. (Jesus Christ came to the earth, died on the cross, rose again the thrid day, went to heaven, and one day he will come back for the people that have given their lives to Him.)
One of the ladies let me borrow an extra hat she had.
Lauren sharing her heart with a woman.
This kid was sooo cute.
This precious woman was 28 years old but looked like she could have been 40 or 50. She had some kind of sickness that made her whole body ache. She´d had this for about a year. I asked her if I could pray for her. She said yes. I also got to talk with her and then one of my Christian Peruvian friends came up and started talking to us, and he shared his testamony with her. It was such a cool moment, because it was the first time my friend had shared his testamony with someone other than Lauren and I.
This girl is 13 years old. She sells tea in the street every day to earn money for her and her 9 brothers and sisters. She invited us to her house and we went...
This is us inside of her house with two of her brothers. We found out that three of the ten kids live in an orpahange down the road, and the other 7 live in a tiny tiny room that they rent with a part upstairs that I´m sure was probably just about as small. The father left some time ago, so they have to make do with whatever money the mom and her kids can bring in.
Precious boys.
This was the son of the sixteen-year old sister....makes 9 living under one tiny roof.
They only go to school for 3 hours a day, and one the way to walking them to school that night, we stopped by school supply shop and Lauren bought them a few school supplies. What a precious family. Such sweet memories that I will never forget.
The following day, we woke up and went to the local nursing home to do a quick Bible study and some activities with the people there.
Many of the people here look like they are so much older than they are. Many of them have had such hard lives. None of them sleep there, because there are not the funds to be able to support people actually living there. The people come from about 8 in the morning to about 2 in the afternoon. They eat breakfast and lunch there and work on things like studying Spanish (most of them speak Quechua), working in the garden, sewing, cooking, and many of them are able to get a bath as well.
We taught them a few songs, and they were so great to sing and clap along with us!
This precious man was so involved in what we were doing.
We walked to the back of the compound and found these ladies making yarn out of wool. This is a common practice called ¨hilando.¨
This was such a neat experience. It´s crazy to think that 40 or 50 years ago some of these precious ladies were my age.
Next, headed out to see a place I´d been dreaming about seeing for a while now. Lauren had told me that this was the most beautiful place she´d seen in Peru, and after I´d seen it, I agreed. It´s called ¨Three Canyons.¨
Look! I can do stunts!! Hehe.
The bridge made out of hay.
Motorcyle crossing hay bridge.
It´s okay. Be jeaous. It was pretty awesome. =) You can see the ¨three canyons¨ in the background.
This is the type of houses many of the families live in when they work in the ¨campo¨or field (Three Canyons is located in this type of terrain). Most of the family spend a good part of their year working in the campo to harvest potatoes and other food. The families eat or sell what they produce, but it is a major part of life in the mountains.
Hiking on up
Lauren dancing with a woman who also took her necklace...hhahah oh the stories.
Another bridge we crossed.
A woman that was resting at the end of the bridge.
Llamita!!! (a little llama)
We headed back to the town to eat dinner and headed to bed. What a great day!
The next day, one of our friends invited us to come eat lunch at her house...there is our picnic lunch (so yummy...potatoes and home made cheese) and then we headed back to the bus station to catch our bus and flight back to Lima. God did so many amazing things during this trip. Again, I can not put pictures or mention names of the sweet friends we hung out with, but we were able to leave materials with our friend, and he is going to start a house church there. It was such a great time to get to hang out with him and get to talk about what God is doing in his life. We were also able to have a prayer time with him, which was a really cool experience. Please pray for the housechurch he is starting, as well as the one that will be started in the other mountain city I blogged about below. Blessings!
No comments:
Post a Comment