Sometimes we mistakenly may believe that happiness is the absence of a load.

March 12, 2018 

  This been another fast week! I don't have much time at all to write. We had a lot of random travel to do this week. There have been couple of missionaries that have came through and stayed at our house because they had to do some document stuff in town.  So that was fun to see some more missionaries.

  We saw a pretty sweet miracle this week. We wanted to work on being lead more by the hand of the lord in our finding so we started calling more revelation on what to do and where to go and praying before we started a finding block. We decided to do some house to house again which is something you don't do a lot in this mission, anyway, we were driving and decided that we needed to stop there and find instead of where we had planned. So we stopped said a prayer and started finding. We knocked some apartment complexes then we were about to go back to the city to find there and we got let into this apartment where there were like 5 college students. At first they weren't really interested but at the end we had talked about the restoration and plan of salvation and they want to learn more! So that was super sweet they are really cool! I want to try to meet with them this week so that should be good! 

  I studied an awesome talk by Elder Bednar this week and because I don't have much time I'll just use his words "Each of us also carries a load. Our individual load is comprised of demands and opportunities, obligations and privileges, afflictions and blessings, and options and constraints...  Sometimes we mistakenly may believe that happiness is the absence of a load. But bearing a load is a necessary and essential part of the plan of happiness... the unique burdens in each of our lives help us to rely upon the merits, mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah." We can find true happiness as we rely on the atonement of the Lord and that is why trials are a necessary part of the plan of salvation. We are here to be happy and that is why we have trials, because God loves us. I know that Jesus Christ is our savior and that he lives and loves us! I hope you all have a. Great week!

Vi vogliamo bene!

Love Anziano Ruiz

Our neighbor randomly brought us this pie. 

It was pretty good, I love Italians!