We arrived Monday night and were informed that the circuit assembly would be that weekend in Cuenca. We had a busy first week to say the least... Just to recap-Tuesday afternoon we boarded a bus to Tambo, about 4 hours from Guayaquil. It sounds like a lot, but here in Ecuador it's so common to take buses everywhere, you get used to it pretty fast, in fact, 4 hours fly's by. Just sit back, relax, read a book, listen to some music, take a nap, or as we did, catch up with old friends. In no time we were back in Tambo, feeling the crisp breeze, seeing familiar faces, stopping to catch our breath from the high altitude....ahhhhh our new home :)
Wednesday and Thursday we took the days to rest and look for apartments. We were able to look at a few and eventually settled on one, but more on that later.
Friday morning came along and we boarded a bus to Cuenca- about 2 hours south. The meeting for Regular Pioneers was held at one of the Kingdom Halls. This was very exciting for us because we would finally be able to see what the circuit was like- who was in it? did we recognize anyone? How many pioneers do we have in our circuit?.... We found that there are so many regular pioneers in our circuit that we there were actually 2 pioneer meetings scheduled that day-one in the morning, the other in the afternoon. In fact, we were told there are about 800 publishers in the circuit and over 243 regular pioneers!!! We say OVER 243 because we were told we weren't included in that number yet as well as a few other new ones in the circuit. We thought that this is a pretty incredible number considering only 800 publishers.
We met some new friends in the circuit including a nice family from Australia that moved back to Ecuador to help-they spoke English of course so that was a bit exciting as well.
After the pioneer meeting, (which Brittany was excited she could understand all the scriptures and a few complete sentence-woo-hoo!), we headed in the city for some food. Our friends just discovered this great Pizza place in Cuenca. Now this may not seem very exciting, but here it is extremely exciting considering the only the pizza we've found here is utterly disgusting. This place caters to Gringo's though and is why it tastes more like the pizza we're used to. Yum!
Here are a few pics from the day- more on the Assembly soon!
Chao!
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