This week was a long one, our numbers were actually pretty good but the last week before transfers is always hard because you are worried about leaving and the Zone Leaders just want the best numbers possible so they pushed baptisms like crazy. The sisters had someone marked for baptism this week and the bishop of their ward thought it wasn't a good idea to baptize him so early so he was telling the sisters no. The ZLs were calling the sisters telling them to baptize so the pressure just made the sisters cry and I had no idea what to do so we met them at the church and I told them to say a prayer to see if he should be baptized and they didn't end up baptizing him.
The other day we were teaching Keily and we told her that transfers were coming up, BIG MISTAKE. She was really upset at us and was sure that both of us were leaving which almost never happens. She said that she does not agree with transfers and said she doesn't want new elders. When we stuck around she was so relieved but we better baptize her before one of us does leave haha.
As you can tell by the title, I am not leaving Viseu quite yet. The Lord still has some work for me to do here and I am pretty sure that work is baptizing Keily and Carla! On Sunday we got invited over to the Silva's house for pancakes after church. Every Sunday they eat pancakes and they usually invite us. I ate 10 pancakes because I was so nervous for transfers and everyone was running around being loud then the phone rang and everyone was quiet to hear transfers. My ZL was playing a joke and told me I was going to Madeira (islands) and then he said just kidding you guys are staying and everyone in the room started cheering haha it was way funny. The sisters ended up staying too. Plus our ward will be getting 2 new sisters so Elder Reni and I had to split the area to share with some sisters...I wasn't too happy about it.
Today we didn't do much, we just goofed around, slept a little and played ping pong. I haven't played ping pong since I left home and I was a little rusty but it didn't stop me from destroying Elder Reni. In the beginning he was kinda close to my skill level but after warming up he did not stand a chance. I beat him 8 times in a row but it was way fun! Well that is all for this week, hopefully next week we have a baptism with Keily but I will let you know! Love you guys!
Love,
Elder Ruggles
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