This week was pretty good, it went by pretty fast and I can't believe there is only one week left in the transfer. It feels like I just got here. After emailing last p-day we all got in the car and went to the go cart place in Abrantes which was one of the best p-days I have ever had! The carts went 70 km/hour which converts to about 40 m/hour. We were hauling on those things and they had a lot more power than we thought, so most of us ended up drifting into the grass. After getting the hang of it we were taking the corners pretty fast and drifting almost every shallow turn. Do you remember the scene from Cars when Lightning McQueen drifts in the race and pulls out of it? That is what it felt like. After that, we all hung out and played soccer. I ran into my recent convert from Abrantes and we all went home and played cards!
The next day we had district meeting which went well. After district meeting we did a division with Tomar, which was my first division as a leader because I have always had sisters in the district. It is nice to have elders for a change haha. We had a ton of fun and I went with Elder Whitaker, he is super dope and he is going home soon so I learned a lot from him. We slept over there so in the end me and Tobler had a double sleep over which was super fun but it made us tired sleeping 2 nights on the ground and on couches. It was nice coming back home.
We have been trying to pass Lucio but he has kind of been dodging us which is sad but we are going to try to get him to come to seminary or something. We had a couple people who said they would come to church this week but none of them showed up which was sad. We have been really struggling to find new investigators but I feel like that is always the struggle and it is very real. We have been doing contacts a lot and trying everything but no one is really listening. What we need is member references but the members here are still really new, which means they have a lot of friends who still haven't had contact with the missionaries but it also means they don't know how to share or why they should. We are going to try to help them with that so they can start bringing their friends to church!
I really liked the little bit of conference that I did see. Sunday we were supposed to have the Saturday sessions already downloaded but they still weren't up so we went early in the morning to download them but it took about an hour to download. We had to delay church a half hour and we all went to the church and watched the Saturday afternoon session. I really liked Elder Hollands talk about Moms because everyone has a mom and they always deserve a shout out. Shout out to Momma Ruggs and I also liked Oak's talk about the atonement. I will have to watch more of them and listen to them this week. Hey, also I sent you guys a package today that should get there in a couple weeks! Love you!
Love,
Elder Ruggles
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