MICHAEL AND DUSTIN HAVE NOW COMPLETED THE HIKES OR CLIMBS UP PICHINCHA, QUI COCHA AND SINCHOAGUA. THE NEXT BIG CLIMB WILL BE COTOPAXI, THE SECOND LARGEST ACTIVE VOLCANO IN THE WORLD
Wild flower that grows in the Amazon Jungle. Our guide pick them for us.
Michael, Dustin and Ellie are wearing "labios caliente" which means Hot Lips. It is a flower that grows wild in the Amazon Jungle.
This lake is in the middle of an active volcano where you can see bubbles coming up to the top of the water from the volcano.
This was the view when we woke up in the morning and came out of our tent. This is the hikers haven of the world.
Our family and Lisa went camping at the base of the second largest active volcano in the world, Cotopaxi. Wow. what an experience. We had the best view of anyone in the world of this spectacular snow capped volcano.
We took Lisa to the top of Pichincha volcano, one of the 13 that surround Quito, Ecuador.
I took this picture in sleet, rain, and snow. We were at about 15,000 feet elevation almost at "El Refugio" We couldn't stay long outside b/c of the conditions at the top. What a great site it was. Cotopaxi is the second largest volcano in the world.
Wollett Family Photo at the "almost" top of Pichincha, one of the 13 volcanos surrounding Quito, Ecuador and one that we can view every day out of our window. We rode the "Teleferico" up and then walked to about 14,000 feet elevation.
This is a Quichua lady from Izacata. She gave Nene her prize possesion, her Quicha necklace. We all just cried when she put it around NeNe's neck. What a heart felt gift it was!!! She has one of the two house churches in this area.
This is Dustin,Ellie and Nene on our roof. We were cooking hamburgers on the grill.
This is Ellie and her very best friend, Vickie. Victoria left Ecuador with her parents and her brother to live in Texas. Victoria is a gem. She is American/Ecuadorian. Her grandparents still live here but she has her other grandparents that live in the states. Eventhough Vickie looks younger, they are the same age. They were playing dress-up and presenting a "play" in this picture during a sleepover.
These children were so adorable and hungry for the Gospel. We shared with them and just loved on them along with the volunteer team.
This is a volunteer team worshiping with a Mestizado from the Carcelen Church.
This man is the president of the Santos Pamba barrio where we are working and where we took a volunteer team to help finish a building and to evangelize. Every community has a president to whom you must get approval before entering.
One of the volunteer teams joined us in sharing the Gospel with these school aged children of Izacata, a very poor area of Ecuador.
This is Dustin and a Quichuan man from Santos Pamba hauling dirt from a half a football field away to the construction site. Incredible isn't it how they make a wheel barrow so functionable.
These woman are three members of the volunteer team from Faith Baptist in Texas.
Anita was a little Quichua girl that just clung to Ellie and Alex the whole time we were in Santos Pambas. They all made such good friends. Anita was at the school were the volunteer team did some construction work and painting.
Ellie met Alex when the last team from Texas came to Ecuador. They just hit it off so well. They both cried when Alex had to leave, but they bought friendship rings at the Indigenous Market to remember each other.
Alliance Academy had Hat Day where the elementary students created their own hats from scratch. Of course, Ellie, my little artist, wanted to participate.
All the 6th graders every year perform a play for all the school, parents and friends. This is a tradition at Alliance Academy. Dustin was Melampo, the dog and a fish in the sea. They worked endlessly on this play for almost 3 months. We were so impressed of how professional it was and how wonderful all the cast members did in this play. Of course, the story was of "Pinochio." Dustin is in the middle as Melampo
Of course, Dustin is in brown as the dog, Melampo.
