Week 28

Hey everyone!

This week was super awesome! First, we had Zone Conference and that was super awesome! Everyone in my zone is super cool and I would love to serve with some of them at one point in my mission. The zone meeting was in Coimbra and that city is super cool. It has on of the oldest universities in the world and it is the school that JK Rowling based Harry Potter off of but we didn't get to go see it. It is still a beautiful city and I would love to serve there! 

I am super excited for this Saturday. We will be baptizing one of our investigators named Gracia and she is from Cape Verde! She is super cool and has been investigating for a long time. She went to stake conference and afterward told us she wants to better her life by being baptized this Saturday!

I have been seeing a lot of miracles lately and I would like to share one of the biggest ones. The other day we were knocking doors and having no success and so we just kept knocking. We were on the last floor of a building and we knocked a door and a lady named Carla came out. She was nice and we talked for a long time. We asked her if she needed any help and she started to tear up. She invited us back and before we left she asked if we wanted her number (which never happens). She also told us that she will never go to another church because she is faithful to hers. We came back another day and she had read all of the pamphlet we left her and told us her life story and how her kids don't want to talk to her after she divorced her husband and she feels like she has no one. She told us that before when the missionaries knocked her door she would always shut it but when we came she said she couldn't shut it and after we left the pamphlet she thought to herself, "Could this be the path I am supposed to take?" She told us the other night that she will come to church this Sunday so we are pretty excited!

This work is full of miracles, keep faith and keep praying because Heavenly Father is ALWAYS listening. I have a very strong testimony about families and it is getting strengthened because many times the people here don't have families or don't talk to them. I love you guys! 

Love, 

Elder Ruggles