Anziano Ruiz in the Italy Rome Mission: This is a feeling that we can have all year around if we continue to be grateful!

November 27, 2017

This week flew! And so did this transfer! It has been awesome serving with Anziano Wagstaff but sadly the 12 weeks are up. So that means we are both for sure getting new companions. We're excited to see who our next comps and areas will be but it will be sad to leave. I really like Napoli and would like to stay but it's a lot more probable that I leave. Come what may and love it!

This week was pretty sweet we ate at all the good pizza places for the last time for one of us. We ate with Mario again and that was good! He just gives us so much food it's pretty crazy! While we were in the metro we started talking to this guy who said he knew a girl who went on a mission for the church just a month ago. It was one of Joele's (a girl from our ward) friends, he said he was interested in knowing more about what she is doing so we are going to meet up some time so that will be sweet! We met with Marco and the Crutz family this week and that was awesome! The spirit has been working with him so much! Marco downloaded the Gospel library app on his computer and likes to watch conference talks, so that's sweet! We shared a lesson on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it went really well!

Austin who is a recent convert gave an awesome talk yesterday in church on the Word of Wisdom. Man it seems like just the other day Anziano Smith and I were just teaching him and now he's up there giving better talks than me! That was awesome to see! One thing I liked that he said is "the body is the instrument of the soul."

This Week for thanksgiving we had an awesome meal at the church with some Americans! So it was a real Thanksgiving. We all went around the table and said what we were thankful for. It was really cool to feel a difference in the room with the spirit of Thanksgiving present. During the holidays it always seems like there is a better feeling around and everyone is happier and things are just not as bad. This is what the spirit of Thanksgiving does to our life. This is a feeling that we can have all year around if we continue to be grateful! I hope you all have a good week!

Vi voglio bene!!

Love Anziano Ruiz

Do what you gotta do to make some money! This guy is playing drums on a bottle of milk!

Normal week but we just took more pictures. So here is a little more of what I see on a daily bases.