We started the new year visiting a little branch of the church in Sesquile. The older couples migrated from Ecuador about 5o years ago. They try to keep many of their old customs like wearing their native dress.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
A beautiful day with good friends
Elder and Sister Shipp from Virginia traveled with us to attend the church with us. We had a beautiful ride to get to our little town and we enjoyed meeting our members from Ecuador.
Our new friends from Ecuador.
On the left we see two women in their native dress. They have a very different skirt, and these beautiful blouses with embroidery that the women have sewen. On the right top, are two men in their white pants, and notice their sandals. They have a long pony tail. The one man has hit hat on that they usually wear.
On the bottom left, are a couple pointing to their grand daughter that is serving a mission in Paraguay. On the bottom right, are more of the women. They too have long hair in a pony tail, and the women wear many strands of gold beads around their necks Some older women had around 25 strands of bead.
A view of Bogota.
On our way home from church today, we stopped and took this photo from a look out point in San Louis over looking Bogota.
2010 A Great New Year.
On Jan. 2, 2010, we started the new year off with our hike on our mountain. In the photo are eleven pine cones. Every time we climb the mountain we pick up one new pine cone to add to our basket. This is how we know how many times we have climbed the mountain. For our last Christmas here, we hope to make a Christmas wreath with all our pine cones.
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