This week was pretty good. On Tuesday I planned and directed my first district meeting. I was a little nervous at first but I feel like I did pretty good. It wasn't as boring as they usually are because I made it fun, and I did half of it in English because we have 2 new missionaries in our district. Then, we got on a bus to go to an area called Mangualde that is pretty far away but we have a couple people out there to talk to.
Later in the week we talked to Wilson, our main investigator who is kinda at a stand still because he hasn't been to church. He keeps making excuses but he wants to come, I think. He has a lot of questions and sometimes they are hard to answer. Like the other day, he was reading in the Book of Mormon and the Lord spared a prophet from being killed by the Lamenites and Wilson thinks that the Lord took away their agency. I tried to explain that the Lord blessed the prophet but the Lamenites were still CHOOSING to try to kill him. I gave many examples and finally he understood a little more but he likes to ask hard questions. We are really good friends because he is our age and it's hard not to just hang out when I go over there because he is so much like my friends, he always wants to show me funny Youtube videos and stuff. He understands the importance, he just has a lot of doubts and I really hope he will be baptized this transfer!
We have been passing by this investigator named Keily lately and she is from Brasil and has been taught in the past but she is really cool and nice. Brazilians always are haha. She wants to come to church and her husband lives in France and wants the talk to the missionaries there. She has questions too like, "Why does God let children starve and stuff?" and I am just like ....."Read the Book of Mormon to find out".....all these investigators trying to stump me is pretty annoying but oh well. We talked to Carla and tried to mark her to be baptized in a couple weeks and she said it's too early but we'll see if we can change her mind.
This week an old investigator called one of our members to ask if the missionaries could teach him again and so we went to meet with him and he has a pretty strong testimony about the church. He said he feels something different there and he wants to be baptized. We are going to teach him all the lessons again and hopefully have a baptism in a few weeks! sorry I wrote so much. A lot happened this week! Today we are going to play soccer with all the youth in our ward and a couple investigators will be there like Wilson and his brother so it should be awesome! Thanks for all the support! Love you guys.
Love,
Elder Ruggles
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