Anziano Ruiz in the Italy Rome Mission: I know that Christ lives and loves us and that we can always rely on him for help.

March 26. 2018

Time is flying! This week was good and fast. I say that like every week but it's true. This week I had a scambio in Crotone with Anziano Castro, he is awesome! We got up and ran like 4 miles in the morning along the beach it was pretty sweet. It wasn't too bad though so I was surprised. We talked to a lot of people and that was good. Crotone is a pretty cool little city. The next day when Anzaino Daniels and I got home we made some brownies and headed to a dinner appointment with the college kids that we found that other week and that was sweet, they are really cool. It was late so we didn't really have time to teach anything special at the end but we were pretty much talking about religion and out church the whole time. They're pretty interested and even told us that they want to come to church. So that was sweet. We want to sit down with them this week. We also got to sit down with a guy named Siemer, he is our age and is from Spain but lived in France and he's now living here. He is a really humble guy who loves the Gospel but his Italian isn't super good, so it's hard to teach him. So we are going to teach him with a member returned missionary who speaks Spanish, so that should be good!

We got to do some service for a member taking apart and putting together bed frames. So that was fun. We had a good pranzo after. It's rained a lot this week so we tried stopping by people we haven't seen in a while and we went up to the castle to see if we could catch Carlo on a break and we did! That was a cool little miracle. He's been sick so we haven't been able to see him lately so we were really happy to see him and he was happy to see us! We want to continue to help him grow his faith in Jesus Christ.

I gave a little talk in church on Jesus Christ in church that was sweet. With Easter coming up I decided to talk about his resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus Christ completes his Atonement. In Alma 7: 12 we learn that Jesus suffered for us so "that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities." How could a deceased being succor his people? In Luke 24: 1-6 when Mary Magdalene went to search for Jesus at his tomb waiting for her there was an angle that said, "Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen:" Because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ he can support us in all of our trials. It doesn't matter who we are or what we have done in the past, Jesus Christ will always be there. I know that Christ lives and loves us and that we can always rely on him for help.

Vi vogliamo bene!

Love Anziano Ruiz

Pictures from last week's Zone Conference. The Taranto Zone