My first week in the field was one of the best weeks of my life! Talked to and met so many people. Sharing the Gospel full time brings so much joy and is so rewarding.
President and Sister Ulrich are amazing. They are strict but they are inspired. Our ward mission leader is Stephen and he is amazing also. He is so enthusiastic. He is from Croatia and he calls us his "sons."
The Warrington ward covers a very large area but there are only about 70 active members. I have enjoyed meeting lots of them. We meet with lots of members, recent converts and less actives each week. I have become close to a few of the members. I had the opportunity to bear my Testimony in sacrament meeting and that was wonderful.
We had our first tea appointments (tea is what they call dinner here, not breaking the Word of Wisdom) and they were great. One of them was with a man from Bangladesh and he is amazing. We ate curry and rice and actually ate with our hands haha. I also spoke some arabic with him which was neat! The other tea appointment was with a big recent convert family and we had BBQ ribs and it was amazing. I have been eating a lot and have already gained some weight haha. I have eaten more curry this past week than I did this whole year before my mission.
Because we don't have a ton of progressing investigators, we are doing a TON of finding. We go tracting, bus contacting, park contacting, street contacting. I honestly love it so much. I have become a lot more comfortable with it and I know we will get some good investigators soon.
We did a street display on saturday. We go to the town centre and set up a little table with Books of Mormon and we try to talk to as many people walking by. That helped me a lot with becoming more comfortable with talking to random people.
The other day I had a prompting to go tract a certain street and we found some potential investigators! One of the girls we gave a pass along card to went onto Mormon.org and referred herself! That is really rare and made us happy. Sadly, the sister will teach her but I hope she gets baptised.
On the bus the other day we gave some pass along cards to some kids and one of them went around asking all the people on the bus if they believe in God and gave them a pass along card. He kept saying to his dad: "I'm helping them do their job" haha.
It rained a bunch this week and I loved it. President Ulrich likes to call it "liquid sunshine."
My district consists of 3 sets of elders and a trio of sisters. Our district leader is Elder Cossa and he is from Zimbabwe and is so neat. In our mission we have people from 51 different countries!
I love being a missionary so much. Miss you all, hope you're doing well.
-Elder Ludlow
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