I am sure you are all dying to know where I turned up and how I am doing. My new area is called Portalegre and if that area sounds familiar to you it is because I did a division here 7 months ago which is pretty uncommon. It is the area that is in the same district as Abrantes and is close to Spain. Elder Jones, my last comp, went to Abrantes so he is still in my district which he was not too excited about haha. It's like one big circle, like a roundabout. My new comp is Elder Tobler and he is super cool, he is from South Jordan and he went to Bingham high school. He even went to the tech center for engineering so I am pretty sure I have seen him at least once in my life.
I spent most of this week in Porto in the office getting my license and then we had to drive all the way down to Lisbon, which is leaving the mission, to get the license. I spent a night in Lisbon with the office elders and one of the elders serving there is Elder Simpson, who was my first trainer and I thought I wouldn't see him until after the mission which was so cool. At first I was excited to drive but now I realize how wrong I was... The roads here are super small, roundabouts suck and the drivers are so bad it makes Utah look like Formula 1 drivers. We finally got to the area on Thursday, then we had zone meeting the next day so I have already used a lot of our monthly gas and kilometers.
The congregation here is really small and they don't have enough priesthood leaders to run it so I am the group leader which is like being branch president but smaller. I am also district leader so at this rate I will be Mission President in no time. Just kidding, I am not a huge fan of leadership and was looking forward to being a junior comp again but oh well the group here is sick. This Sunday we had the District president come to church who is pretty much the stake president but of smaller groups. He pulled me aside after church and said if the group doesn't grow it will have to be shut down. It was pretty much one of my favorite conversations, I love being told, "baptize or else." We will see how it goes. We will work hard and we will baptize. Gotta love leadership..........not.
I didn't end up getting to go to the baptism of Leticia unfortunately which really bummed me out especially because I had a car and could have made it there. Viseu is like a 3 hour drive to get there and I tried calling president but he didn't answer so I will have to call the family later and say congrats. That is all for this week. Make sure you keep writing, and I did not end up getting the package but don't worry about it. It might turn up eventually. Love you all!
Love,
Elder Ruggles
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| Me and my trainer in Lisbon |
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| Elder Tobler |
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