Cortas De Luz=power outages
That is pretty much how the week has been. The country of Ecuador is in a Nationwide drought right now and the way they get their power is through hydro electric motors that use the water to generate electricity. But since it hasn't rained much this rainy season they have had to cut the power all throughout the week. Most of the time it has been around 1pm to 6pm so we haven't really been affected by the power cuts but other Elder's power has been cut in the night and I've heard that they just had to wait 2-3 hours without power since it is so hot in their house. I'm not sure if the power has cut out at our house since the new room we found is much cooler and has a big window.
They also thought that we wouldn't have water or power for 2 days straight. So we took like 2 or so hours deciding to go back to our apartment to get as much drinking water as possible and fill up some buckets so we could shower and use the toilet but then we got up the next day and had running water. That was a pretty funny experience since the whole mission was told to make sure they have enough water for two days and then nothing happened.
But that's pretty much all the exciting stuff that happened this week. Because of the power outages a lot of people were outside of their houses and we were able to talk to them so we had a lot of opportunities to talk to people and help them know more about the gospel. And of course this Sunday was a day the people had to vote about adding new laws to Ecuador so we didn't have a lot of people show up to church this week. It decided to rain all Sunday morning too so that's another reason or excuse people had not to come to church. But this past week 2 of our friends have started their marriage papers and that has been exciting since we have been trying to encourage them to get married or start the papers ever since I've been in the Sector but they are finally starting them.
That's pretty much it for this week nothing too crazy happened.
Miss you all
Elder Roper
