Tourist Day

Today was our ´tourist´day in the area of San Ramon. We took two small buses down the mountain about 2 hours from Tarma to visit the waterfall at Tirol.
It is just amazing to see God´s handiwork everywhere you look! When we started going down, we all could see the change in the vegetation and the increase in humidity. It was Eric who said, ¨Just think, God was sitting at his desk one day and said ´Plants´ and all the variety just sprang into full blown life.¨ Just to think of that one exercise of God´s infinite power to create is very humbling and praiseworthy.
We stopped at the falls and most of us got our feet wet, but Nancy and Lina went all the way in.
They had soooo much fun! We then went to a native village called Pampamichi where they put us all in native dress and told us some of the history in the area....in Spanish. Most of us don´t understand much, so it was hard to get much out of it. Then, we participated in a couple of dances, posed with parrots and Eric made friends with a little monkey. Of course, there were the usual tourist things to buy (much like home).
We then had the driver and guide take us to the Highland Coffee operation just outside of San Ramon. We met a lovely young lady from Goshen, Indiana who was working there and took us through the small tour. She is Mennonite and doing her year of service here in Peru. She was so wonderful and it was a wonderful opportunity to talk with her in English. I think she enjoyed us also.
We then headed home about 1 hour late and were hustled of to dinner with a lady named Rut and to David´s final English presentation. We are very tired, but the day was wonderful.
Shane got chills last night and had aches and pains, but this morning was just fine to go with. Joel and David stayed back due to preparation and stomach issues.
Please continue to pray for our health as tommorrow and Friday are very full days...we have many invitations to different activities such as cooking class, preschool, dinner, etc with the people of this wonderful city.
Pray that we are touching lives for the glory of the Lord!!!

Your Tarma Team