This week was pretty good. It was really hectic because we had a zone meeting and we had to help the new sisters open up a new area. We got 2 new sisters in the district, Sister Johnson (who came in with me) and Sister Smith (a greenie). They are cool but they stole half of our area and half of our investigators so now we have even less people to teach. Don't worry, we made sure that we will still be teaching Keily!
This week our numbers weren't awesome but we had some things to do like I said, but that is still not a good excuse. Our mission had the worst week for baptisms and I think president is really mad. We had 7 baptisms in the mission with over 100 duplas...pretty bad. President's letter is usually 2-3 pages long but this time it was 1 page with just the baptismal stats on it. We taught Keily a couple times and tried to pass Carla but she was never home. I think we might drop her because she is not progressing anymore, won't come to church and thinks she doesn't need baptism.
We finished all the lessons with Keily, and finally got her the 4th lesson which is commandments. We have a rule in our mission where you have to teach that one with a member of the bishopric because people here don't pay tithing. It's hard for us to do that because our bishop lives super far away and he only has one counselor who works a lot. At the beginning of the week we talked about the Word of Wisdom and we had taught it a while ago but she thought that a little bit of wine and coffee wasn't bad so she did not stop. The other day while we were talking about it she gave us her coffee but already had a bottle of wine open and said, "last bottle." We tried to take it but she said no. The next day she said she tried to drink some but could not swallow the wine and spit it out in the sink. Then, she poured out the bottle in front of us and hasn't had coffee or wine in a week now!!!
Keily's husband, Ezikiel, has been working in France for the past year and only gets to visit every so often. He came home this week and we had dinner with them and he is awesome. He is the nicest Portuguese guy I have ever met. We taught him a lesson on families because he has an awesome one. He said he is annoyed with God because he is missing his kids growing up. He said the only reason he is in France is so that they can have food and if there was another way, he would do it. Keily has been trying to go down there for a while but she is from Brazil and can't travel whenever she wants to like Ezekiel. We invited him to church and he said he would be sleeping because of his long trip but he and Keily showed up to church with their 2 kids! We are going to try to mark a baptismal date with Keily for this week so Ezekiel can be here! Hopefully next week she will be baptized!
Love you guys,
Elder Ruggles
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