Day 12 - Shopping

Met for service at the corner again this morning.  I worked with an older sister named Rosita and Erik with Shawn and a young brother named Cristian. (they almost always asign just sisters with sisters and brothers together-except husband and wife) We followed up on some RV's and honestly I was happy to stop after the morning because it was already super hot and sunny by 9am and i've been sweating like crazy since we got here.  Erik called back on our neighbor, Sabina, who he spoke with Saturday and had a brief study in chapter 2 of the Ensena book. (she already had the book because she may be someones RV but that didn't seem to stop him-or from visiting her again tomorrow) She has 3 little kids and told us she used to go to the mtgs with her brother, who was an upbaptized publisher.  But about a yr and a half ago he was murdered on the family farm.  She seems very timid but really understands the information. We'll keep you posted.

After service we went with Shawn to Loja (about 1.25 hours) for the big grocery trip to the Supermaxi (kinda like a Tops but 1/2 the size). It's kind of an all day project here but they only do it once a month or so. It's not as easy as you think when all the products are in spanish and you don't recognize any brands. Not to mention trying to do the metric conversions on everything, ugggghhh. Oh, we decided it would be a good idea to not shop hungry so we stopped at the food court first to get a "snack" - Ryan had told us the ribs were good so we decided to try them-he was right! But, thank goodness we decided to share them. For $7.50 (I thought was expensive before I saw the plate - we are getting acclamated) Erik and I shared a plate and took the leftovers home to Ryan. They were smokeyliscious!

I have to say the ride home didn't bother us because the scenery is truly spectacular! Very difficult to capture with pictures and we must have passed a dozen waterfalls, all different shapes and sizes. But they looked even different today as there was no rain and it was a beautiful, sunny day. 

We stopped by a market in Zamora to get some fruit ($1.50 for a pineapple, $1.00 for a huge papaya the size of a football - crazy, right?)
& Managed to get Erik home for his first elder's meeting with the brothers in the new Albion congregation (although the internet was not cooperating-they probably think he was just slacking off already).
Tried to go to bed a little early because Wednesday is our long day in service.