The Mountains Delare the Glory of God

This weekend we went to the market again on Saturday. I took video but it's sideways! We have started finding our way around now. We feel pretty confident. Sally is doing better walking and tolerated the morning walks through the busy markets filled with raw meat and all sorts of things mommy yells 'no, esta sucio!' to. Now sally walks around pointing at things saying, 'sucio' which means dirty. We have liked buying our groceries at the street markets. It's fun! And just slightly cheaper and it's more supportive of the locals. We wondered around the market to different places we hadn't been. We passed a 'cholita' sitting behind a small kart full of quart sized open tin paint cans. She had large pieces of paper surrounding her cart with 15 large circles on them, each a different vibrant color. She must have had 10 sheets decorating the base of her cart. The cans were full of colored powder, dye for the items the indigenous women make! I was facinated. The cholita dipped a flat wooden stick into one of the cans containing bright blue and smeared a dab on a small peice of paper for a woman there who was there to buy. We then passed a store that had HUGE potatoe sacs full of diffent spices and nuts. We came upon a saltana (pronounced saltania) cart run by a man who insisted on speaking some English to us. 'Chicken or Beef' he said. We answered him in spanish, and he said, 'Six bolivianos'. So funny. Saltanas, if I haven't said before, are meat and potatoes stuffed inside a crust and baked. In Argentina they are fried and called Empanadas. This guy had 5 different salsas (sauces) to put on them. I ofcourse like an idiot decided to put a spoonfull of the jalepeno sauce on mine. Instead of just the juice, I took all the chunks and everything. HA, AH, OH, SOOO Hot. Doug just giggled at me the whole time. My eyebrows were sweating so bad my sunglasses fogged up! We stood at the cart long enough to try a few of the sauces and continued down the road. We found the tourist shop we were searching for. It had beautiful clothes and kitchen accessories. I was in love. It is the most expensive store we've come accross. Check it out at http://www.aynibolivia.com/fairtrade/en/ayni-bolivia It kind of a cool background story.
SUNDAY we went to a new church. Ron and Rhonda who I mentioned from my school are missionaries her and the church they attend is a new church called Rey de Reyes (Kind of Kings). Doug was asked by Ron to translate his English spoken sermon into Spanish! What a huge challenge for Doug. He did a great job. I hung out in the back with Sally and a 5 year old boy named Gadiel. I made paper airplanes and listened to the sermon. There were maybe 35 people there and it lasted almost 2 hours. Wow. It was a fun experience. I think we might go back. We went to Dumbo (which is becoming a staple here) for lunch with Ron and Rhonda and Rhonda's son Tim who just arrived here from Tenessee on Friday. At the end of our meal Ron noticed that his bolivian bag with his 2 bibles in it had been stolen from under his feet. :( It was a good reminder for me to keep my camera and purse attached to me at all times. Besides Dumbo,

ILLIMANI has also become one of my favorite things here. It is the mountain we see out of our windows to the South East. I have taken some amazing pictures and I just love how it towers over our city like it was placed there to remind us of Gods amazing Glory. Today it's actually quite overcast and I can barely see it. The clouds have started rolling in the cooler it gets. You can hear the breeze whipping into our building at night now. We're preparing, the winter is upon us. Brrr.