Week 9

Hey Everyone,

This week has been pretty good, but all of our baptisms fell through but that is OK because we rescheduled them for this week. We will be having 3 baptisms if everything goes as planned! We got a new investigator who came up to us at 9:30 at night as we were going into our house and he yelled, "Elders, wait!" We stopped and he said, "I want to know more about your church." He has read all of the Bible and he is looking for work so he is at home all the time and all he does is read the Book of Mormon. He said he knows it is true and is getting baptized this week, the only problem is that he has a bit of a smoking problem but we told him the Lord will help him if he prays and has faith. I heard that Sam found a match so she is going to get surgery! That is the best news. I have been praying for that for so long and it goes to show you that the Lord will bless families and prayers are answered. Just keep the faith.  

We also talked to this kid from South Africa who speaks Afrikaans, Portuguese and English and he seems like he is very open to what we teach him and he tells us to do it in English so it's nice for me. The first time we talked to him he asked me what made me want to come out and be a missionary and I got to bare a really powerful testimony in English and he was really blown away. He said, "You're so young but yet you still chose to be here talking to people who don't believe." It was a really cool experience and I hope we teach him more because he is super cool! I don't have a lot of time today but thank you for all the letters and love, everyone. I love all of you guys and I will talk to you next week!

Love,

Elder Ruggles

P.S. We had a zone conference with the mission president and the Lisboa zone and all of my old district from the MTC are in the Lisboa zone and so is Ty so we hung out all day, It was awesome.

Me, Ty, and my MTC district at zone conference