This week was pretty eventful, it started off kind of slow, we basically just had a division with the zone leaders which was good. I went with Elder Elderidge, he is from Tooele, Utah and he is pretty cool. We did a lot of contacting, passed a couple recent converts and passed by some cool people. The other zone leader is Elder McColley who has already served here in Portalegre so he went and visited some members and then we had dinner at the end of the night with the Ferreira family which was way fun.
During the past couple weeks we have been trying to pass by the people we have been contacting during the transfer. We had contacted a cool guy in the park named Nuno and we had been trying to pass him for a while but he didn't have a doorbell so we would just knock pretty hard but he never came down. The other day we finally were able to talk to him and he let us up and talked to us for about an hour about his life. This guy has been through it all. He was a drug dealer in Lisbon and got into some crazy stuff but he said his wife changed him and now he is a law abiding citizen with 2 daughters and one is only 2 weeks old! He really liked the lesson and we will be going back this week. I have a lot of hope for this family!
On Thursday we went to Abrantes to do a division and sleep over for Zone conference the next day. I visited some members and it was way good to see all of them. At zone conference we got some new trainings from Pres. which were interesting. Then we had interviews and I asked him to serve with Bianucci again but I don't know how much he liked that haha. He told me not to ask him to change revelation but I am just asking him to receieve specific revelation that is convenient for me haha.
In other news, this week we bought a live chicken because a friend of ours said he would cook it for us. We went and bought one and named him Laban. We had to keep it a while because we had a zone conference so we left him in the house which might have been a mistake. He got out of his cage we made out of cardboard and decided that the couch was a much more comfortable place to take his craps so our couch was covered in chicken dumps but that is the beauty of pleather, easy clean up. Saturday we took him to our friends and slit his throat. The prophecy of the Book of Mormon came true. He wasn't that good and I wouldn't do it again because we basically paid 7 dollars to clean our apartment and eat some alright chicken with rice but the killing was cool. Tobler got to restrain him while our buddy killed him. All in all it was a fun week! That is all. Also, I got the package at zone conference and it was awesome! Thanks so much guys I loved all the letters and the American food!
1 Nephi 4:13 - Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked (chickens) to bring forth his righteous purposes. It is better that one (chicken) should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.
Love,
Elder Ruggles
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