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.
We had a pleasant visit from our area President, Elder Nash. He joined us for lunch with our last group of new missionaries from Ecuador.
We traveled to Barranca last weekend for missionary interviews and we attended church and found ourselves as the speakers. The town is very hot along the side of a river. One half block from our hotel I took these photos. This is the town with many iguanas.
As I walked the streets of Baranca, I noticed there were many people wearing these straw hats.
I saw this street vendor cross the street with his cart of hats and I chased him down. He was pulling a cart through the streets selling the many beautiful hats of Colombia. It will be hard to chose one when it comes time to buy.
