February 13, 2017
This week felt pretty fast! So I'm staying in
Ascoli!! I have a new companion his name is Anziano Parkinson he's super sweet!
We were actually in the same MTC group
so we've both been out just over 7 months. The cool thing is that my trainer
Anziano Anderson was his follow up trainer so we have a lot of story's about
him haha anyway we get along and work very well together!
So my old companion Anziano Farinotti is
training in Napoli right now so that's pretty exciting for him. I was really
happy to serve with him for 3 months! I really learned a lot and we did some
great work here together! I'll miss him, especially asking him how to say stuff
in Italian correctly that was really nice haha. So when Anziano Farinotti left
I made him some carbonara for one of the last meals and wow, I surprised
myself, it was good! Anz. F said that it was one of the best carbonaras he's
had in his life so coming from an Italian, I was pretty proud of myself! Some
lucky friends will get some when I get home! So I'm happy that I'm learning how
to make good food!
The day before Anziano Farinotti left we
pretty much stopped by all of our good friends that we have made here and it
was super fun and good! The first person we met with was Francesca she was an
investigator a while ago I've taught her only one time but I remember that she
really felt the spirit while we taught her. She's in a difficult time in her
life right now and wants more joy. She kinda stopped seeing us because she just
had too much going on; but since Farinotti was leaving she came to say bye. So
when she came we started talking about why she stopped seeing us and taught a
little lesson. We told here we are here to help the people in her situation,
meeting with us, learning about the gospel of Jesus Christ and applying it to
your life is the fastest way to find lasting happiness! But it's all a choice,
it's all her choice, we invited her to find her faith that she already had and
to meet with us to find this happiness in her life! It was a very spiritual
lesson and she agreed to do so. So we are really happy for her and to watch as
the lord heals a wounded soul!
With Anziano Parkinson and I being so young in
the mission and serving together we have a lot of positive energy for the work!
It is so sweet and we are seeing this energy impact the work here in Ascloi
which is just awesome! So our first day here we had a good long weekly planning
session to get him familiar with the work that we have here already. After that
we had some appointments lined up for the evening but they all fell through. We
were left with 4+ hours of street finding to do. So we went out and attacked
the finding. The whole time we talked to every person we saw! If we weren't
having a conversation then we'd stop someone and have one. And it was like that
for just about the whole 4 hours strait. It was sweet and just in that one
night we got about 10 new contacts which is probably more than we've gotten
since I've been here! The next day we had a sweet service volunteering at a pharmacy,
it was really cool and there were some other volunteers there also. We had a good
conversation with them and got 5 new contacts then finding that night we got
another 3-4 contacts! We are on fire finding right now and it's just sweet! One
cool thing is one of the nights we were finding we ran into Francesca’s mom and
little sister and started talking to them and the mom said that she's been
wanting a spiritual uplift in her life so we said "We can do that for you
that's why we're here!!". So me and Anziano Parkinson are working together
so good and we are ready to blow up the work even more here in Ascoli!
Another perk about being young in the mission
and having an American companion is we actually do stuff other than email on
pdays! So I'll have some more Pday adventures in Italy to tell! Today was super
sweet we pretty much just went around the city and looked for some sweet
pictures to take! It was a success! We tried getting to the bell tower of the
building of the main Piazza here but it was closed off so we decided to ask the
guy at the front desk if there was a way we could somehow get up there and he
said no but was still excited to meet two Americans and actually ended up
giving us a huge personal tour of the building! It was super sweet and we got
to see "the key to the city" and everything. There is just so much
detail in everything here its so beautiful! So we had a sweet Pday and are
ready to attack another week! I'm so happy to be a serving here in Ascoli and
with Anziano Parkinson. I love the missionaries and the miracles that we get to
see every day, it's truly amazing!
I hope everyone has a
great week! Thank you for the prayers and support!
Vi voglio bene!
Anziano Ruiz
New companion Anziano Parkinson
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