Saying goodbye and traveling back

Our hermana Loida...

y hermano Christian

It was hard to leave them! The whole family took us to the airport and stayed until after our plane took off. They were behind a metal gate, and we could see them as we walked over to our plane and even as we were on the plane. We miss them!

We had a total of 4 flights, about 40 hours of travel, and 20 hours of layover in New York City!
We took a bus to Newerk Penn Station, a train into NYC, grabbed a map and started walking! We are both wearing our Ecuadorian jerseys so we wouldn't loose each other. :-)

Time Square!!

Central Park!

Thanks to our lovely eye-catching jerseys, we found this guy! His name is Byron and he is from Quito, Ecuador! I invited him to join us in walking around, so he became our tour guide! Laura and I sang him a song we had learned in Ecuador (the ayayayay! song! :-) ), and from there we were able to share the whole Gospel with him! Very unexpected, but very very cool!

Our first time on the Subway! Exciting!

We took the Subway to the World Trade Center

Park Place and Broadway...Monopoly, anyone?

At a park in NYC...this park was used in the movie Hitch! Very pretty! The lanters are even lit with fire!

And thus ends our updates from our Ecuadorian trip! It's almost been three weeks since we left, and I can hardly believe how fast it's gone! We still miss everyone and I would still return at any time if God so lead. Our trip was incredible and we saw God's work in so many different ways! One of the biggest things I learned was that God's divine appointments often don't come when I expect them to, which is really pretty cool. Be available always and keep your eyes open for opportunities that God wants to use! If He can use our little Ayayayay song, He can use anything!

Again, thank you so much for your prayers while we were gone! I'm sure we'll have more blogs like this one in the future! I wonder where God will take us next? I'm excited to find out!

Dios te bendiga!

Jesus te ama!

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Hasta luego!