April 30, 2018 

 This week was pretty good, felt super long because P day was postponed. 

  So there is this place called Piazza Giovanni in Cagliari and we always seem to talk to big groups of ragazzi (teenagers) there, it's funny. Tuesday night we were walking in the park and this group of ragazzi walked passed us and were yelling Mormoni, probably to mock us. We stopped them and started talking to them and they were super excited that we were American and they really liked my sports pictures. They weren't really interested in the Gospel but they now really like the Mormons so that is awesome! We met them the next day and beat them pretty good in foosball haha it was funny we are getting pretty good. The next day same place basically the same thing happened after we saw some kids skating and I asked if I could give it a try, they were pretty surprised that a church boy could skate haha.

  I did a scambio with Anziano Bacon this week and that was sweet he is a new missionary and is really bravo! He was number 12 in the nation for mountain biking I'm not sure what category but that's sweet. We stopped by a bike shop to see a guy he had met on the street, sadly he wasn't there but we did get to share out message with someone else and that was awesome.

  Saturday we did some some service again and that was super awesome. That night we did some finding so we went to centro and walked up to this view over the city that was super pretty, we were  talking to a big group of people in their mid 20's and ended up teaching them the restoration as we watched the sun set in to the sea. It was pretty sweet, these guys should be coming to our English course and were super interested in the restoration so that was sweet!

  God has blessed all of us with strengths; I like 1 Timothy 4:14-15. "14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee...15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all." There is a quote by Thomas S. Monson that says "the greatest force In the world today is the power of God as it works through man." A great way that God works through us is by giving us strength and blessing other people through them. As it says in 1st Timothy we should not neglect these gifts, we should use our strengths and what makes us unique in this world to serve others. The first GREAT commandment is to love God and the second is to love our neighbors. When we serve others we fulfill both of these commandments because "when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."(Mosiah 2:17). I know that God lives and that because of him we can bless those around us.

Vi vogliamo bene!

Love Anziano Ruiz