This was a hard week, let me tell ya, probably one of the hardest of my mission. It started off awesome. We were preparing Keily for baptism and I have never had an investigator as prepared as she was. We were teaching her every day and she was reading every night in the Book of Mormon and then she would send us a text about what she learned and she was stoked to be dunked. We had the Zone Leaders come down for a night on Friday and they interviewed her and she passed and we kinda just had a little party that night and didn't get much sleep so that was fun.
Saturday got here and we were way excited for the baptism and during morning studies we got a text message from Keily that said her husband's uncle died and that there would be no baptism. Elder Reni and I called her but she wouldn't answer or text back so we ran to her house which is like a 2 or 3 mile run....in our suits. We told her we were at her house but she said she already left. We waited at her house for her to come back or call or something but nothing happened so we went back to the church. We called her a ton and texted her but then she said that she would call us later. We called everyone and cancelled the baptism and walked to her house 3 more times that day. We haven't heard from her until this morning and she said she would call us on Wednesday... we were pretty sad and the ward was upset as well. In the end, we did all we could do and it still fell through. We are hoping to mark her again but if she won't talk to us then there is not much we can do.
At least we had dinner with the Silvas on Sunday to cheer us up and we had pancakes like we always do. Then after dinner we went out to work but it turns out that on Sunday night Bemfica (one of the big teams here in Portugal) won the Portuguese championship and so the Bemfica fans raged the streets and started fires and threw alcohol! They drove around and honked their horns and behaved in a way I thought only wild animals could. I thought the human mind has too much of a conscience for this kind of behavior but people were taking clothes off and making so much noise... They are nutz here.
But, on Sunday night Miguel invited us to go to a waterfall for P-day so this morning we woke up and skipped studies (YOLO) and drove an hour to go on a hike! It was beautiful and so much fun! The whole district went and Miguel is my favorite person in the world. He just makes jokes about sisters like I do and he thinks I am super funny. One of the sisters tried to sit shotgun and he said, "Nope, Elder Ruggles sits there." It made the week a lot better and it shows me that the Lord will never let me feel alone even at the worst of times. I can still see his hand in my life. I love the work and even though this week was hard to keep working, all of your support means so much and you may think, "He is on a mission and is busy" but the letters really make the week a lot better so thank you for all those that write me. I love you guys and miss you.
Love,
Elder Ruggles
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