After work on Christmas Eve day, I had several errands to make, including getting paint for the painters to keep painting, buying last minute gifts, searching, finding, and giving out a dozen gifts for our close Ecuadorian friends, passing out the remainder of our Christmas tracts at the newly opened park near our house, and buying some extra groceries for Alesha's awesome Christmas dinner!
By Monday at 5pm, I was ready for a break. The "break" that I got was to quickly shower and get the family ready for two Christmas Eve activities that night. The first was a Christmas carol meeting with several of the other gringo missionary families. But first!, on our way there we experienced one of the clearest rainbows that we had ever seen, and certainly the best one yet since moving to Ecuador. Since we were on our way to begin our Christmas-time celebrations, we thought it fitting to dub it as the "Christmas Rainbow". We recalled how a rainbow is a symbol, a reminder when God saved a few faithful servants out from a terrible death by water, and how we were driving to remember the day when God was born on Earth to save a few faithful servants from another, more permanent death. These were our thoughts as we sang carols to and about our Savior as well as listened to some selected readings.
After this, we headed to our local church's Christmas program. It started promptly at 7pm (Ecuadorian time). We watched Levi and Glory act out their part of the play. Glory quoted a verse. We listened intently as a translator spoke in the Waorani language. We enjoyed hearing the gospel. We watched a skit organized by the young people about how living a "good" life still only brings death in the end. Finally, around 10pm we were served an Ecuadorian Christmas supper (which looked very similar to and Ecuadorian lunch). Amazingly, all of our children did great even though we did not return to our beds until 11pm!
Enjoy!
TaylorH
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