Why wait until tomorrow when you can do it today.

Why wait until tomorrow when you can do it today: just one of the many lessons that I learned from Loly, the second of my installments of roommates down here. Loly, the hermana de Ecuador(sister from Ecuador), as they kept calling her was visiting Pacasmayo on her way through some of the coastal cities to minister about God and give testimony about her life. I really felt bad for her at first. She was basically dumped into our already cramped apartment (Ginny and Shar were still here) without much of an introduction. She came out to dinner with all of us and the guys from bible study the first night and no one really talked to her. I guess no one knew she spoke English at that point. Loly had just finished her first class in English and with my broken Spanish and her fairly decent English we managed to touch one another's lives. On a very basic level, I taught her how to use the microwave and helped her send some emails to her sister back in Ecuador. I’m sure it was also pretty cool to be dropped in the middle of “Camp America” to practice her English. A goal of hers is to come to the United States in order to share her testimony. Everyone has a story, Loly’s just happened to be pretty miraculous. She told me all about her walk to God, which began 8 years ago when she was called to the front of a church. Loly had been battling leukemia and had been called down to the alter to be healed. She told me that at the moment she gave her life to God, she felt the sickness lifted. Sounds completely unbelievable, but there she was standing in front of me, completely healed. She showed me the video of her healing and it was definitely the woman standing in front of me, but completely emaciated and bald under her hat. I don’t really know how I feel about the evangelicalist healings, but this was definitely a God thing. She kept calling me her sister (I think that’s a missionary thing) and invited me to come up to Ecuador insisting that I stay with her when I do. Apparently Ecuador is amazingly beautiful and I can’t miss out on that. Fun fact, Ecuador uses American money. Who knew?? They even have their own Ecuadorian coins that are the same sizes as American coins as well as using the American coins.