Life is so strange as it feels like been here for months but it turns out it hasn´t even been three weeks yet!
Things are going well, my health is back to normal and even though it feels like i´m eating a bucket more of food it appears that i´m losing weight because the food is so healthy (nice deal if I do say so)
Over the last couple weeks we have been extremely busy preaching, teaching and loving on kids and youth. Last week we were at a children´s school teaching 2-12 year olds about God. Here they have no problem with religion but they have no concept of relationship with God. (which is backwards. Religion ´bad´, relationship-good.) So we were doing 4-6 classes ranging from 40minutes - 1 1/2 hours...back to back...on hearing God´s voice, healing the sick, bringing heaven to earth and all in all being God´s best friend. For the most part the kids were rocked (we´re still waiting on confirmation from the two year olds ;)as they experienced the powerful presence of God for the first time.
This week we moved up and taught at a school with kids 13-18. These kids were a little more challenging. Each class had about 20-30 kids and we had 2 1/2hrs with each. It was great though, I love when the kids challenge us. One group couldn´t have cared less about God after having religion and rules stuffed down their throats all their lives. So our little rag tag group waltzes in pours our hearts out, one girl is even bawling as she tells a radical story of how God saved her, still...nothing. So we ask if any of them even just want to taste a little bit of God´s presence come up and we´ll ask God to touch them. Surprisingly enough quite a few came up. Well Jesus is so amazing and showed up big time. The kids were crying and crying and falling to the ground as his presence was so strong they couldn´t stand! It was crazy and lots of fun.

So that´s been some ministry for ´normal´fun last weekend we left town for a day of play. (After getting an $8 pedicure of course!) We went to this place called Mindo in the mountains and got a chance to go Canapying (where you´re attached to a harness and fly from mountain to mountain) White water rafting (for $3!) and quading. Oh the hard times of missionary life!

Today is another day off (we get one a week) but it won´t be so eventful. We have a big retreat tomorrow with all the youth and have to plan and prepare. (Please keep it us in your prayers!!)

Funny cause it feels like we´ve done more but at the moment i´m drawing a blank. Tuesday we spoke at a men´s prison... Slightly more sketch then the women´s let´s say. I was talking to my friend after and I was saying how tough they are, then we had to laugh as it was like ´well obviously, they´re in there for murder!´ (I think it was funnier at the time) God came though and we´ll continue to go back every second week.

Please keep prayin as we do a lot of preaching and it´s absolutely pointless to minister if God and the power of his kingdom don´t radically show up. Also Thailand planning is starting to go to the next level as we start organising our team, please pray for everything to fall into place!!

Extra note: I think Jen wrote an update that´s posted on the director of the ministries myspace page. So if you want more details the site is www.myspace.com/eagledove under Jen Toledo in Ecuador or something like that.
All my loves!

In Ecuador!

Hey Guys,
I can´t talk long but I just wanted to let everyone know I made it. It took over 30 hours to get here but when I arrived I adjusted well to the altitude and ám trying my best to learn spanish asap (i understand it pretty well it´s just speaking where i struggle) I don´t have much time but i just wanted to quickly share some fun stories!
So on Friday we learned that a baby of a family that the directors are close to was in the ICU and on the verge of death. The doctor´s told them there was no hope and she wouldn´t make it through the afternoon. Well, not on our watch.We all piled in vehicles and rushed to the hospital to start praying. When we got there it didn´t look good but as we were praying the doctors came out and said the baby was stablising. Well as we´re in the waiting room we meet another mother who´s baby was on the verge of death. It had an infection that started in the lungs but was somehow climbing towards the brain or something. The mother was frantic but let us pray with her. A few minutes later she came out from the ICU room bawling as the baby slipped into a coma. Again the doctors said there was very little hope. We kept praying though knowing that the only answer at this point was Jesus showing up. WELL... within maybe 30 minutes the doctors came out once again to say the baby was on the mend. By the time we left the hospital a few hours later both babies were doing well and óut of danger´as they say. Isn´t God amazing! We were thrilled.
Well that was that. i preached at a woman´s juvenile prison yesterday and throughly enjoyed loving on all the woman. One girl was 16 and had two kids. One 5 and the other 3. They were great.
However... ever since I arrived I´ve had quick the stomach ache that has been accompaning me. It started in Calgary and Friday I started feeling nausious from it. Then saturday I started violently throwing up and was achy and full of pain. It sucked. Thankfully the guy we´re staying with is a doctor and stuck me with a needle to make me stop throwing up and pumped me full of medicine to ´make me strong´. I´m now on the mend and walking beautifully.
Well all my love to everyone! Hope to speak soon! Ciao!!

You had me at "the beach"

Hi Guys! I'm in LA. I was up this morning at the ungodly hour of 3:30 for some more country hopping before I'll eventually arrive in Ecuador tomorrow just after lunch.
I forgot how much I missed LA, sitting with my friend eating a great little salad starring at the waves of the Pacific, it almost felt like home. lol almost. Not quite tho. (I've been quite emotional with this trip so please bare with me, hopefully it passes soon) ;)
All my love to everyone.
Probably won't have much internet time in Ecuador but I will have a phone (thank you Tunde) so I will email that out soon!
Loves