Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Life in Ecuador

Well, I havent been too good about doing my blog......But I am going to try to do better.....We shall see.
Its been almost 4 months since we arrived here in Ecuador.  We are enjoying the preaching work here very much.  We have alot of bible studies and keep getting more.  The people here respect very much the bible.  But because their education is limited, at times you really have to break down the main points.  Their reading comprehension is very low.  But we do have a few that are very inteligent.  There are many things down here that are very different from the states.  And they can be hard to deal with at times.  Cleanliness is one of them.  People throw their garbage everywhere.  We try to instill in our bible studies the need to keep the earth clean.  But its aggravating at times to see so much garbage everywhere.  Another thing that is hard is the treatment of animals.  We see so many animals suffering.  I just want to bring them all home but thats not why we are here.  Again we try to use the bible to teach people the proper treatment of Jehovahs creation.  Other things are somewhat funny.....some of the ideas here.  I heard last week that rice has high cholesterol.  But for the most part we are enjoying our time down here.  It is hard to be away from family and friends but we are doing ok!