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We drove around Ecuador from extreme to extreme (From Tulcan to Montañita) and we found a lot of surprises but on every place God talked to us and he brought people to share His love with them.
It has been always hard for me to talk to new people on the street (I know it sounds not like me but that’s the true) and was timetim ro work on it, everything started in Montañita, a city on the coast with a great party life, specially on festival weekend, we were in the middle of a hippie environment camp, a lot of people, a lot of drugs, a lot f alcohol, in addition I didn’t want to be there, but God had a plan there, Leighton, a young guy that was drinking the entire night get close to us and offered us a drink very kindly while we were praying, I told him we couldn’t accept it but if he wanted to we could pray for him, he opened his eyes like plates, he excused himself for offering the drink and asked me to pray for him, in the middle of that environment God sent him there.
We went out of the city without a plan to Guayaquil, we rented a place though an application, we thought everything was set up (good price that we paid in advance, a good location in city) the owner never answered the phone and never gave us the address, we had to rent a room in a hostel with a price over budget, I thought the things were not going right and there God sent us Genesis, a girl who was about to quit from the hostel in 2 days, a conversation was enough for her to know a little bit more of Christ.
As a team we decided to move to Pulug community (30 minutes away from Riobamba) even I thought it was in the middle of nowhere God sent Neizon a believer in the bus who gave me comfort after he told me God sent us there, then a men called Segundo who is the one who takes care of the house where we are staying, I have spoken with him every time he comes and he has been a blessing.
That way God gave me another lesson, is not about methods, the ministry is life and is can be seen on anything even if I don’t understand it.
Español
Recorrimos Ecuador casi de punta a punta (De Tulcan hasta Montañita) y nos encontramos con muchas sorpresas, pero en cada lugar Dios nos hablo y por supuesto puso gente para que compartieramos con ellos.
Siempre ha sido una dificultad para mi hablar con gente extraña (si suena raro pero es verdad) y todo comenzo en Montañita, una ciudad costera de mucha fiesta, especialmente el fin de semana de festival, en medio de un campamento con un ambiente Hippie, mucha gente, muchas drogas, mucho alcohol y en medio de todo eso yo no queria estar ahi, pero Dios tenia un plan. Leighton, un joven que habia estado tomando toda la noche se acerco mientras orabamos para ofrecernos amablemente un trago, al verlo le comente que no podiamos aceptarlo pero que si gustaba que oraramos por el, con sus ojos abiertos como platos me pidio disculpas y me dijo que oraramos por el, aun en medio de ese ambiente Dios lo mando ahi.
Salimos de la ciudad sin un plan aparente hacia Guayaquil, alquilamos una casa a traves de una aplicacion, cuando parecia que todo estaba bien (buen precio que pagamos por adelantado y lugar centrico) la persona no nos contesto el telefono y nunca nos dio la direccion, tuvimos que rentar una habitacion para los 4 en un hostal por un precio arriba del presupuesto, las cosas no iban tan bien, y ahi Dios puso a Genesis una chica que solo le quedaban 2 dias trabajando ahi, y basto una conversacion para que ella conociera un poco mas de Cristo.
Mientras estabamos ahi decidimos movernos a la comunidad Pulug (a 30 minutos de Riobamba) y aunque parecia en medio de la nada Dios puso a Neizon un creyente en el bus que me reconforto al decirme que Dios nos habia enviado aqui, y luego a un hombre llamado Segundo quien cuida la casa en la que nos estamos quedando con quien hemos hablado cada vez que viene y ha sido una bendicion.
Asi Dios me quiere dar una leccion, que no se trata de metodos, el ministerio es vida y puede verse de cualquier forma aunque yo no lo entienda.
