Banana Chips, Forgiveness of a Twentysomething, and the Drug Dealers Car Dealer(ship)

So I am trying to send more photos of food from Ecuador. So here is a photo of an Encebollado. It is one of my favorite foods here. Basically it is a fish soup. You put lemon in it and chifles. Chifles are the best, they are basically banana chips. So like a potato chip but from a banana. That is one of the cool things about Ecuador and especially the coast of Ecuador. They have a ton of different foods. For example there are 7 types of bananas here. But anywho the encebollado is delicious but the only problem is they only serve it hot and only serve it until the evening. That means you just sweat into your encebollado as you are eating it and when I get hungry at night I cannot eat them. And they really only exist on the coast so when I leave Santo Domingo I will miss them. Super delicious and super satisfying.

So what is up with the photo I sent? So on Sunday we went to pass by two of our investigators and see how they were doing. Well the man had been drinking a bit. So immediately when he saw us he dropped to his knees and started praying for forgiveness. We told him it was okay and left. The other missionaries who serve in our ward took the photo from their house because they live really close to this family and happened to be inside when it happened. The mission life. 

This week was really good. The only hard part was it was super cloudy this week. That means it was not super hot and the weather felt perfect. But, when I woke up in the morning I felt exhausted every day. Even when I did exercises I would be sleepy. That made it a little hard this week. 

But luckily Elder Astuñaupa and I are doing great. We have fun always and are getting along. 

One more story. So there is this super cool car dealership in Santo Domingo. It has a ton of nice cars. There is a Porsche, Corvette, Lexus, Ford Raptors there and other nice cars. And last week it got taken down by the police. They raided the place because apparently it was run by drug lords. And they took all the cars away as well. So drugs are a problem everywhere I guess.

Just want to apologize for my bad English and prose. Don't let my English teachers read these. And the problem is that talking to other Americans does not help because we all have lost our English. Today at the mall we were trying to figure out how to say nosotros tampoco. We neither is how to say I think. And I cannot remember a lot of words either. So excuse my bad English. 

Love y'all and excited for this week. Got the package and it was perfect. I really want to drink cheerwine now. But seriously that package was great. Love y'all

Elder Tucker