Second week of the field and it was pretty good. The members like to say "suave como yogur" or smooth like yogurt. It doesn't make any sense and I'm not really sure if that's how you use it but it's pretty funny.
Other than this week being pretty smooth, it was also pretty good. It's super hot here and whenever we check the temperature it always says about 90 degrees but feels like close to 100 with the humidity. Whenever the sun is out it always feels a lot more hot too. Then if it rains early in the morning and then the sun comes out we are screwed because the sun just bakes you alive mixed with the humidity from the rain. But I think I would rather be dripping sweat while studying Spanish and eating hot soup in the heat, than having to contact while it's snowing or just really, really cold.
This week we also got to go to the President's house for lunch. It was like a training that they usually do the day we get there but they decided it was better for us to do it a week later so that we can get settled in. But the mission president's house is nicer than most of the houses in the states haha. It's super super new and everything is super nice. I'll have to find some pictures that the APs were taking so all of you guys can see how nice it is. But for lunch we have some chicken parmesan with rice and pineapple juice. It was kind of a weird meal but it was pretty good. This week I've eaten some weird things I would never guess I would be eating in Ecuador, too. For example: KFC, hamburgers, and BBQ wings. They aren't the same like home but they're pretty good.
Other than the food the work is going pretty well. We have the same two sisters on date to be baptized, but they don't want to seem to commit to being baptized. The one sister, sister Noemi, won't come to church but we visited her last night and was wondering when the next date she could get baptized was. The other sister, sister Denisse, says that she doesn't even want to get baptized anymore. It also seems there are a few others that are close but just have a couple of things holding them back. It doesn't make any sense to me but it's a complete lifestyle here compared to Utah.
Also a little funny bit, we were teaching a younger kid and asked him how long he thought I was here for and he guessed a year. I just started laughing. It seems people think I've been here for much longer than I have.
This Sunday we talked a lot about 2nd Nephi 5, but also Mosiah 2:41 which was pretty cool. Something I was thinking about during the sunday school lesson is that I sometimes think that life was easy for Nephi, but I bet it wasn't. I feel like Nephi is a good example for us because he is always praying and obeying the Lord's commandments and whenever there is something that is really hard he always asks the Lord for guidance. Everyone has stuff that they struggle with, so I invite everyone to ask the Lord for guidance for whichever thing you need help with and he will answer your prayers and help out!
Miss all of you guys
Elder Roper
