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Monday, October 18, 2010

1st Time in the Snow

El dia de ayer fue un buen dia, y el dia anetgrior mucho major.

Pero primero que nada dejemme comentarles lo que paso ayer, por primera vez visite la nieve. Y fue en la Montana Cambaya en el Ecuador. Aunque vive por mas de 10 anos  en California a unas 4 horas de las montanas de Big Bear por una razon u otra nunca me fue possible visitor Big Bear durante el tiempo de nieve, por los ultimos 8 anos e vivido en Baja California y al igual en la Rumorosa suele never en estas epocas, nunca me avia tocado visitar en tiempo de Nevada :) pero la espera se acabo el dia de ayer gracias a Diego, quien cordialmente nos llevo por los andes asta la Montana Cambaya. Nos tomo alrededor de 3 horas llegar entre calles empedradas y terraserias llegamos a nuestro destino. Y sin pensarlo dos veces Cory, Jordan y yo, comensamos a scalar asta encontrar la ta anciada nieve :) y lo hicimos. (desafortunadamente Dan no nos acompano asta la nieve ya que su asma no se lo permitio, y Diego solo nos dejo cerca de la cima y se quedo hai esperandonos) aparte de scalar, hacer angeles en la nieve, tomae muchas fotos y guerrear con bolas de nieve, despues de hai nos dirigimos a comer una tipica comida Ecuatoriana que consiste de Carne de purco marinada, papas, maiz frito, maiz cosido, aguacate y slasa de queso, y para decir verdad esa comida fue muy deliciosa a todos nos encato, Diego es una gran persona en nuestro regreso de la Montana, como na hay tramsporte le dio raite a 4 adultos y a un bebe a la ciudad, ellos querian pagarle sin embargo el no lo permitio, (el solo decia es una forma de ayudarte) y eso no es todo despues de la comida nos llevo a un marivilloso laga llamado Cuicocha aligual a provar un helado natural echo 100% de la manera Antigua, este hombre si que es grandiose trato de ensenarnos lo mas que pudo de su pais en un dia.

Yesthurday was a good day, and the day before even better.

First of all let me tell you the for the first time in my life I been to the snow, and it was at the Cuayambe mountain in Ecuador, even do I live for more than 10 years in California 3 hours away from Big Bear mountain for one reason or another is was never to get there during snow season :) even now the I live in Baja California there is snow on the mountains on the west side on Baja. But the wait is over thanks to Diego who gladly took us near the mountain so we can claim up to the snow, it took almost 3 hours to get there in the bumpy road but after the ride Cory, Jordan and I were able to get to snow and take some amazing pictures, make snow angels and even get in to a snow fight, Cory and Jordan against me :) (Dan was unable to get to the snow due to he's asthme :( and Diego  just left us close to the top and he stayed there waiting for us)  after that Diego took us to have some typical Ecuadorian food the consist of marinated pork stews, whole potatoes, fry corn, cook corn agucate and cheese sauce for the potatoes and to be honest the food was delicious, Diego is such a great guy :) and our way back from the mountain since there is no public transportation Diego give a ride to the city to 5 adults and one infant dropping them in different places, they were willing to paid but he will said the is a wait to help you :)and that's not all he also took us to the Cuicocha lake who by the way is beautiful and to eat homemade ice cream which is made the old fashion way and is delicious :)  

El sabado fue incredible, nos levantamos despues de las 6am, el Pastor Julio nos recogio en el hotel despusito de las 7am y nuestra odisea comenzo, despues de un trallecto de mas de 2 horas pudimos llegar a algunas comunidades indigenas las cuales isguen con sus tradiciones ancestrales, sin embargo el Pastor Julio y su Iglesia estan llegando a esas aldeas con el Evangelio de nuestro Senor Jesucristo, al momento cuenta con cuatro pequenas Iglesias en cuatro de las comunidades, y la verdad es incredible como esa gente lo quieren y lo respetan, sin duda alguna el es un hombre de Dios dedicadi a las misiones cual su meta es tener una iglesia en cada aldea con un lider de la region no de la ciudad para que ellos continuen la encomienda.

Saturday was awesome, we got up after 6am and Pastor Julio pick us up from the hotel after 7am and after more than 2 hours in bumpy we were able to get to some indigenes  villages the ones had continue with their ancestral traditions. But Pst. Julio and he's church are reaching these villages spreading the gospel among them and planting churches in their villages raising up new leader within the same community so far he has 4 churches in four different villages, to be honest I was impressed to   see how these people respect and love Pst. Julio and the means only one thing the he's doing an awesome job there with this communities, the most inspiring thing the he's doing, even do he's able to send leader to take care of the church in the village he's raising a leader in each village so they can continue to do things on their own wit out the Pastors help, I think the is so unselfish and awesome.

Mi amigo Mateo.

En la primera aldea que llegamos conocimos a Mateo un nene de aproximadamente 4 primaveras, descalso hijo de los lideres de la iglesia de hai. No se necesito mucho tiempo para darnos cuenta que este nene era muy especial y todos nos quedamos maravillados de el, durante el tiempo que pasamos en la aldea no se despego de nosotros, y como llevamos dulces para repartir llamaba asus amiguitos para que agararan dulces y al Pastor Dan le llevo una Papaya (su forma de agradecer en estas comunidades es regalando algo a los visitantes) asi que ese nene si fue agradecido, nos trataron muy bien la familia de Mateo queria invitarnos a tomar Chicha, su comida tradicional bueno atole :) echo de yucca pero como no estaba echo con agua potable el Pst. Julio les pidio que no nos dieran ya que nos podia hacer dano en nuestros estomagos.

Aparte de regar dulces por todas las comunidades, por fin pudimos echarnos una cascarita de futbol con los ninos, Mateo trajo su pelota y en medio de la aldea nos echamos un jueguito, desde que llegamos a Guatemala Cory y yo habiamos hablado acerca  de echarnos una cascarita con los ninos y porfin lo pudimos hacer.

Our friend Matthew

On the first village the we visit, we met Matthew a 4 year old boy wit out shoes son of the leaders from the church. Wit did not need the much time to fall in love with the kid, during the time the we were at the village he was our guide, since we took candy to the kids he will call he's friends to come and get candy and he also give Pst. Dan a papaya (the way to say thank you on this villages is by giving something to the visitors) so the little kid was thankful, the leader from the church also wanted to invite us Chicha a drink made of yucca roof and is like a typical food to them, but Pst. Julio insisted to them not to give us some of that, since is made with non purified water it could be bad for our stomach.

Besides giving out candy in each community to the kids, we also were able to play some street soccer with the kids, Matthew brought he's soccer ball and thanks to the we were able to play soccer wit the kids in the middle of the village, by the way since we got to Guatemala Cory and I had talk about playing street soccer somewhere in south America and finally we were able to do it.

Tradiciones.

Estas aldeas que visitamos, como comente anterior mente siguen con sus tradiciones ancestrales. Y estas son algunas las cuales el Pst. Julio esta trabajando duro para cambiarlas con la ayuda de Dios. En ellas se practica el poligano, un hombre puede tener asta 5 mujeres. La mujer a los 45 o cuando déjà de menstruar se considera inserbible y el hombre tiene derecho de conseguirse otra mas joven. Si la mujer no puede tener hijos el hombre tiene todo el derecho de agarrar a otra mujer como esposa. En estas aldeas no hay policia y esta compuesta por familias la cual espulsa a miembros por mala conducta y si la persona se reusa a irse se le puede privar de la vida. Al igual que las mujeres a los 13 se les permite casarse asi que una mujer llega a tener mas de 12 hijos, sin duda alguna el Pst. Julio tiene mucho trabajo por delante :)

Traditions.

This villages the we visit, like I mention before they have their own traditions, and these are some traditions the Pst. Julio is working to change with the help of God. In this villages is common to practice polygamist, a man can have up to 5 wife's, and a women after the age of 45 is considered unsubtle and the husband is allow to get a younger wife. If the women is unable to have kids the husband is allow to get a 2nd wife. In this villages there is no police and is populated by family members who make their own rules, if somebody do something bad the village kick him out, and if he refuses to leave he may get kill. They also allow the girls to get married from the age of 13 so the means the a women can have more than 12 kids, wit out a doubt Pst. Julio has a lot of work to do :)

2 comments:

  1. sounds like a lot of fun! i'm glad you and cory finally got to play some soccer. my friend rossy is ecuadorian and her mom gave me fried corn once. so good! good luck to pst. Julio :)

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  2. that little boy sounds very personable! he will be a great leader there! :)
    I am jealous of your snow ball fight, I would of been on your team...not fair for Jordan and Cory to team up on you like that!

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