Well another P-day is here and it has been another week of the mission life. It was a pretty good week, not super great number wise but I still feel like we did a good job. We worked hard and found some cool people, I feel like even on the worst weeks of my mission I have never gone a week without having a good conversation with someone or being blessed by something small. It is really those tender mercies of the Lord that help me through.
This week we tried to teach the investigator that the sisters gave us but he won't talk to us. He was marked for this Sunday to be baptized but now that he won't talk to us I don't know how we are going to tell him what time to be at the church to get in the water haha just kidding. He basically unmarked himself and told us that it is too hard and he has been avoiding us ever since. We will still try to pass by him but I guess that is why president wants us teaching single men, to make sure they have a real desire.
We had zone meeting this week which was nice especially because it gives everyone a break from the district meetings. Our zone is all stuck on the same island so we see each other all the time so it takes away from the fun of seeing everyone in the same place for zone meeting especially because 10 of the 14 missionaries here go to church in the same building but we still had a fun time. The zone leaders gave a training on how we need to mark more people for baptism and they talked a lot about president's goal to baptize 35 people this month. Hopefully a few of those baptisms will be ours haha.
Speaking of baptisms, we have been teaching this really awesome couple, they are really receptive and nice. At first they pulled the whole "we are Catholic" routine, crosses and all, but we talked to them a little and they let us come back. We taught the first lesson and it brought the wife to tears and then she told us how she never felt the spirit in the Catholic church. We asked her a little bit about her life and asked her when she did feel the spirit and she told us that about 2 years ago she went to an Evangelical church for a couple weeks without her husband knowing and she said she felt the spirit and was baptized. She said "You are the first people I have told, not even my husband knew, he is hearing it for the first time like you guys". We were a little shocked that she had just confessed to her family and us for the first time that she hated the church she attended and was baptized into another one. Her husband raised one eyebrow and stared at his wife but when she looked over at him with tears in her eyes he looked back down at the pamphlet we gave him indifferently acting as if he didn't hear it. We laughed about it for a long time after the lesson but they accepted to be baptized when they knew the message was true and they really like the Book of Mormon so hopefully they will keep investigating and not confess too much to us.
Other than that it was a normal week, we are doing a lot of planning for an activity that the sisters are doing about cultures. We are a little confused on the plans but we have decided to help if needed but we are not going to stress about it. Gotta love sisters, amiright? Thank you for all your love and support. I especially liked what mom said about blessings. How we always have stuff to complain about but we also have blessings that always outweigh the hardships, we just have to decide what we want to focus on! I love you guys!
Love,
Elder Ruggles
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