August 7, 2017 Craziness (British Pageant!)

This past week was probably one of the most eventful weeks of my life.
We were able to have lots of success with the British Pageant. We gave
out probably 230 copies of the Book of Mormon. It was amazing and
brought us lots of joy. Eleanor was able to come to the pageant and to
the missionary fireside (where recent converts share their conversion
stories) last night and she really enjoyed both. She is excited for
her baptism on the 19th and has her interview tomorrow. Abby is doing
well. She really enjoyed the Pageant and felt the Spirit.

So more on the Pageant. There were performances in the evening
Tuesday-Saturday and an afternoon performance on Saturday. Before each
performance there is a fair and we have a booth set up there and then
after the performances we set up our booth just outside the exit and
we hand out copies of the Book of Mormon and get people's information.
It has been amazing the responses we have gotten.

So the story for the Pageant is about the first missionaries coming
over to the British isles. It goes through the story of Heber C.
Kimball and then when all of the apostles come over and talks about
the Cannon, Benbow and Ashton families and their conversion stories.
It has so many good doctrinal nuggets and the Spirit is so strong. In
the finale it talks about how the work continues on and then we emerge
from our seats and walk on stage singing called to serve. It is so
powerful and it's amazing to see the emotion in the audiences faces.

Elder M. Russell Ballard came to our mission on Thursday and we had an
amazing meeting with him. He is super funny and said exactly what I
needed to hear. He was also at the pageant and I really enjoyed
getting to sing to him 😉.

I am so unbelievably grateful for this Gospel and my testimony just
continues to grow every day. Joseph Smith truly is a prophet of God
and he really did restore Christ's church to the earth. I am so
privileged to serve where the early apostles served and to walk on
this holy ground. Hope you all have a great week!

-Elder Ludlow