So for those who are wondering what the heck yapingacho means or what it means, it's an Ecuador plate that I think is my new favorite plate here. It's kind of weird but it's potato with a peanut sauce, some sausage, a fried egg, and usually a little side salad of onions or cucumbers. It sounds really weird but it's super super good and there's usually not that much rice which makes it even better.
This past week we have seen miracles left and right in the sector of La Toma and in the whole entire zone honestly. But to start we had 5 people show up to church this past week. We usually have 2 people that come every week but can't get baptized since they aren't married. Then our fecha baptismal came to church and we think that she will get baptized this upcoming Sunday which is very exciting! Then we have been teaching this older man who has problems with his eyes and just been teaching him and hoping that his testimony would build through prayer. On our way to church we saw him walking to church with his grandson and they came to church! He said he loved it so that same Sunday we tried to put him on a date to be baptized but he didn't feel quite ready to have that goal yet.
Then the 5th person who came to church was a miracle in itself, last week there was a hermana just kind of sitting in the street with her daughter kind of playing around her. Her daughter called us over and the mom started asking us stuff like where we are from and where we go to church. We immediately got some member vibes and asked if she was a member, she has been a member her whole life and has been inactive for 10 years or so. But this past week she came to church with her whole family which was awesome and she texted after and said to keep visiting her family.
Sunday night we were walking around since we had around 10 minutes before a lesson and we said screw it let's go to a reference where a member said an inactive member lives. We knocked on the door and the hermano asked how we are and what ward we are from. Safe to say he was a member and has been wanting to get back into the church but just hasn't heard any word from his past bishop or his past ward. We also had found an hermano named Jorge Parredes who works with police, but we gave him a Book of Mormon in the first lesson and he accepted it and he said he WILL read it and we will have a conversation the next time we come by.
Safe to say we have been seeing quite a bit of miracles in the sector and seeing the Lord's hand a lot !
That's all for this week though. I hope everyone is having a fun summer!
Miss all you guys,
Elder Roper
