One night, about 2 months ago, I was eating tacos at a taco stand with the a lady from church named Ruti and her family. Ruti mentioned to me that every saturday night, her and her sisters make gorditas to sell in their home. Now, I'd had tacos made by Elsa, Ruti's sister, and I KNEW anything that these ladies made would be divine. Ruti invited Jean Paul and I for free gorditas one week. We definitely were satisfied and decided to keep going back.
We have youth group on saturday nights, but we are usually leaving around 8pm, which is the time that Ruti and family start making gorditas. So now, usually between 5 and 10 of us from youth group go out to Ruti's house every saturday. (We say that we even try to go to the movies or something, but the car just automatically goes to Ruti's on saturday nights!!)
We've gone like 4 times for gorditas. This past sunday, Ruti found Jean Paul and I after church and scolded us for having payed for our gorditas the night before. JP said that we had already taken her up on the offer of free gorditas a few weeks before. Ruti said that feeding me and JP gorditas every week is a way for her to serve the Lord, so we should eat as many as we want and never pay! JP works full time at Horizonte, earning just a portion of the meager tithes and offerings that the church collects. Wow, Ruti wants to feed us on saturday nights so we can always be sure to eat well and not have to spend money on it, beacuse she is feeding people in full time ministry! I had never thought of it like that before, but it really is a service to the Lord and a blessing to me and JP (and to our tates buds and stomaches!!) Ruti and her family are not wealthy by any means, but they've found a creative way to serve God's people.
I hope I can be as creative in the ways I find to serve God by serving others!!
This is my friend Alma Rosa eating a gordita. This isn't one of Ruti's though, hers are a lot smaller, but A LOT yummier!!
