This week was better than the last week that is for sure. Elder Reni and I have been on the hunt for new investigators and it is going....kinda well. We have been contacting almost everyone we see and most people don't want to talk as usual but we have found some nice people we will try to meet with later this week.
The other day we passed by Keily and she has been very sad and distant lately because of everything that happened and she really misses her husband. Elder Reni and I started to notice a wall that she had up whenever we would try to talk to her. She would just say that it was more complicated than we knew. We had a 3 hour lesson and we bore a lot of testimonies and she started to cry by the end of it. She said she would go to church but that she did not want us to come knock her door. Later that night we were praying and a scripture that I forgot about flashed into my head. It was weird, I could almost see it on the back of my eyelids, but the scripture was Jacob 4. I told Reni after the prayer and neither of us could remember the scripture so we read together and verse 13 talks about how the spirit cannot lie to us. It helped a lot because she has been doubting a lot because of her friends in other religions showing her anti Mormon stuff.
On Sunday we went by her house even though she told us not to and she was not awake 30 minutes before church and she was mad we came by and said, "You 2 have problems in the head" but she got to church! After that, we had a lesson with her and she said she is moving to France soon and that she likes the church and is going to try to attend in France but it is impossible for her to get baptized here because she wants her kids to be baptized too and she wants to talk to her husband. I pray that she doesn't distance herself from the church.
In other news, both companionships of sisters had baptisms this week and I had the opportunity to interview the baptismal candidates! I was excited for the sisters and one of the baptisms was one of our friends we have gotten to know while the sisters have been teaching him. His name is Andre and we have become really close. At his baptism he was feeling bad that he didn't have a suit so we went to the house and grabbed him one an Elder had left behind and gave it to him and we said he could keep it and he hugged us and started to cry. He said in one year he will fill out his papers to serve a mission which is awesome. He also chose Elder Reni to baptize him so it was cool for him to get his first baptism in Portugal even though it wasn't our investigator! All in all it was a good week but it was sad that Keily won't be baptized here. Thanks for all the support and the love! I Love you guys!
Love,
Elder Ruggles
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