Love in Quito by Tori Ramirez

Why hello there followers! Being in Ecuador has been a beyond amazing experience already, and its only day 1! Today we woke up had a delicious breakfast, put on our work clothes and headed out to work around Casa Blanca. There were three teams. Team one was in charge of the garden, Team two was in charge moving logs, and team three was in charge of moving rocks. I was a part of team one, working in the garden. Our task was to plow up part of the grass area and mix it with the soil so there could be more room to grow various items. While digging we found HUGE grubworms... like the ones from Lion King status... they were beyond disgusting. But since we found so many of them we decided to make a little collection. As the day progressed I met some Quito residents. (It really comes in handy knowing Spanish) I met a sweet 8 year old girl named Abigail who I fell in love with. She was such a sweetheart and a full of life young child. I also met two toddler girls named Michelle and Genesis. And a sweet young 10 year old boy named Willmy. Being with the kids was such a great experience and I enjoyed it very much. Well back to our pile of grubworms. After a while Mr. Wilson, our oh-so-wise leader, offered Nico $50 if he picked up a grub worm and full on licked it. After the whole group grathered around, cameras were in position, and many of us screaming. Nico grabed a slimy enormous worm put his tongue up to it and licked it... Well done Nico, hahaha. Afterwards we had lunch and then continued working. Then we came inside and rehearsed skits, puppets, testimonies, and worship for palm sunday sermon that the group will be doing tomorrow for the local Quito church. The atmosphere is great. Being with fellow christians is amazing and indescribable we all love the Lord and want to seek him in a new way. We worship and praise him and its just an overall wonderful experience. Well I believe its dinner time. Hasta Luego! -Tori Ramirez