Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 5: 13


Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life.

Monday, May 15, 2017

2 Nephi 2:11 "For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things."

Pictures from Last weeks Baptism.
Anziano Ruiz and Santo.

  And new companion Anziano Parker


Anziano Cutler's and my greeny, catching up on some sleep
 from jet lag while we travel to their first area.

 After Anziano Ruiz received this picture of his
                                 younger Brother Elijah.
 (while waiting at the Temple for Older Brother Jaden to get married)
 He sent this one back lol!

May 15, 2017

  Happy mother’s day to all the wonderful mothers out there but especially to my amazing mom! We could not do it without you all.

  This week has been pretty great we had a zone conference that was pretty good so we were back in Cagliari for a couple of days. We actually had a pretty cool experience while we were there. Usually when we go there is something planned for us but this time there wasn't for some reason. So after our interviews  Anziano. Parker and I were looking for something to do but we were hungry so went get something to snack on at a store. Then we were sitting in a park snacking and I saw that the park was dirty and we had a bag so I just thought "hey why don't we clean the park?" Haha so we started cleaning around and talked and ended up talking to a guy who took missionary lessons like 15 years ago, we really invited him to meet with the them missionaries but he wasn't very interested. It was a good experience though. That next day was zone conference and that went good. One of the missionaries that gave his departing testimony was just so energized for the work and had a great love for his mission and that was really inspiring and really pumped me up to get back to my area and work!

  So then next day as part of zone conference  we were following up on how we used The Book of Mormon to share the blessings that we see in our lives with others. It was really cool to see different ways that the Book of Mormon has been helping others.  Anziano Parker and I want to find more scriptures that we can share with people we meet. 
  So we wanted to ask you all, If you can find time to send us an email with your favorite scripture and maybe a little way of how  that scripture was an answer to your question or just how it helped you.   roman.ruiz@myldsmail.net

 One verse that I found myself using a bit recently is 2 Nephi 2:11 "For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things." It seems that there are many people that I talk to who claim that there is no God because of the bad things in the world. For me I look it at it a bit different. When I see bad in the world it’s a great sign to me that the adversary is definitely real and bad. So as I take that with the knowledge that, how big and bad Satan might be that God is greater; and his righteousness always has and always will over power Satan. Light Always overrules and over powers darkness. Thanks to the Book of Mormon we know that men are that they might have joy! We know that all things are done in the wisdom of God who knoweth all things! I know that I can take any hardship in my life and turn it around for the positive; I know this because of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Sure it might be hard to believe in a God when all we look at is the bad. It is when we start living the Gospel of Jesus Christ we can take these bad things and turn them into to manifestations of the the joy we receive from god and over all this reality. I know that God is our eternal farther that we are his children are that he loves us! He restored his Church for us, that we can have joy! I love this gospel so much, I hope we can all find such joy.

Vi voglio bene!

Anziano Ruiz 
roman.ruiz@myldsmail.net

A fruit tree in what you could call our front yard.




Giant Lemons that we can pull from a tree out our kitchen window

Mother's day dinner at the church.

Santo made a cake for Mother's day







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