I know that Jesus Christ is our savior and that because of him we can find joy while enduring through the trials of our life!

August 21, 2017

  This week has just been awesome! President Pickerd is back and we had a zone conference, that was good! Sorella Pickerd should be back soon! President Pickerd was also able to interview Sapele for his baptism and he will be baptized this Saturday! So that's sweet!

  This week we got two more referrals from Richard (Austen and Moses )  and met with them Tuesday to teach the restoration! That was really good.  Then had the opportunity to meet with them Saturday night to follow up on their reading of the book of Mormon they said that they have been reading together, then bore testimony to us that it was true! That was so cool. We went on to teach the Plan of Salvation up til the Atonement then invited them to be baptized and they accepted. The lesson was so full of the spirit I was learning and my understanding was deepening of what we were teaching it was just crazy cool. They both want to be baptized and we are so happy for them! 

 So I got a call 2 days ago and answered in Italian like normal and a girl is asking if we are the missionaries from the Naples Italy branch. So I was just like, okay maybe just a tourist. Then she introduces her self as a sister missionary and I didn't catch the name so we start talking, I was assuming that it was just some random sister giving us a referral. I was right, but it wasn't just some random sister!  She's says "is this Elder Ruiz?" And I say yes... and she said this is Sister Haertling!! It took her a few times for me to understand Haha but it was sweet! So that was pretty crazy, it turned out that she had a referral for us. We both just got transferred into our cities so it's just crazy looking at all the logistics of how that happened. It was cool tho, so I talked to Sarah this week over the phone.

  It's been a good week of missionary work and I'm looking forward to another great week! I love the Alma 7:11 "And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people" I know that Jesus Christ is our savior and that because of him we can find joy while enduring through the trials of our life! If you want to hear more testimony I invite you to invite your local missionaries over for dinner! They love you. I love you guys and hope you all have a great week!

Vi voglio bene!!

Anziano Ruiz 

Zone conference

We had an American lunch with our ward mission leader. He shops at the American base here so we got a little taste of home. It was neat.

When in Napoli...

This is where I was when I got the call from Sister Haertling!

Some random Piazza I saw while on the bus through town

Pday biking

 So this is the second biggest palace in the world we had a look around for this pday. So all the pictures before this are mostly from here.

Just thought that this was funny and that Cortez would appreciate it!