Mom, you´d be proud of me. I have an interesting story to tell.
There is this lady in our ward here named Nancy. She is super great and got baptized last December after totally turning her life around. She used to be drunk all the time and her husband the same and they´d got to parties and come home and fight and all this stuff, but now their whole family is getting ready to go to the temple! Woot! Anyway....that wasn´t the story I was telling. She likes to expose us Greengas to Ecuador. Especially by way of things like Guatita, which is all of the really sick gross parts of the animal (instestines, tongue, stomach, etc.) cubed up, put with peanut sauce and served over rice. yum. Last Friday, I was able to partake of such a treat. Let´s just say that in this situation, I was greatful it was a little dark. That way, I didn´t have to see what the chewy sick looked like before I had to swallow, tyring not to really tasting it. I have a strict policy that if the meat is chewy, I don´t ask what it is. I found out later from Hermana Groesbeck what we just ate. Poor lady, she´d been feeling a little sick. The guatita didn´t help...
The US Embassy is in our ward boundries, so there are a few North Americans in our ward and one of the families invited us to dinner last night. Mom, you´d be so proud of me. She made a roast, and not kidding, it was the most delicious thing I´ve ever tasted. Man, it was so good. I couldn´t help but think of you trying to get me to eat meat all those years. Who knew that all you had to do is make me eat only meat that had been cooked in oil for a month and a have then make me roast and I´d totally love it. The rice situation, however, has only worsened, and when I get back, I will never eat rice again.
We had a baptism last Saturday! Maria Toapanta. She´s the sister of David. I don´t know if I told you about him, but he had a date, but on the night of the interview he kind of freaked. She is really awesome though. Her parents are supportive of her decision, but not of the church. She´s 14 and was very determined to do it. She really has a testimony of the Book of Mormon and wants so bad for the rest of her family to get baptized too. We´re going to keep working with the rest of her family.
We also met a really steller family yesterday. A lady from the ward talked to a taxi driver and he said he´d be willing to have us over and yesterday was the first day. He told us about how all in the same year, (2008) his wife got cancer and died, his son got cancer, and then his son got in an accident and had to have 5 surgeries. He had to sell his business and almost everything they had to pay for all the medical and now he´s a taxi driver trying to just earn enough money for his family to have food. The mericle of it all is that he´s not bitter at all and invited us over so he can get closer to God so he can be with his wife after he dies. The guy has a REAL eternal perspective. He basically told us that there was a reason for his wife to die so early and that it was God´s will and that was alright with him. Sometimes I think that we say ¨God´s will be done,¨ but we don´t really mean it. We get mad when something bad happens that isn´t our fault. I´m really excited to teach this family. They are something really special and in tune with the Spirit. While we were talking, Arturo (the dad) asked us about the Spirit and told us he´s had very Spiritual experiences and told us some things that had happened to him. I really hope that they progress and go to the temple!
I feel like I don´t have anything too exciting to tell about, but that´s about it. Until next week! I really love to read all of everybody´s emails. Congratulations on your new house Mike and Julia!
Love. Love. Love.
Hermana Cooper
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