September 25, 2017 Media Referrel Miracle

This past week was great! The work here in Chorley is starting to pick up, still a little slow but some solid potential. Carol and Rory were in London this week for Rory's acting and so we weren't able to see them but we have been in touch with them and they are doing well. We still have loads of part member families that we are working with or trying to work with and that is still exciting! 

We got a self referral this week and she is super prepared! Her name is Georgina and she just keeps asking us super good questions. She has been reading the Book of Mormon and actually told the missionaries on Mormon.org that she had a dream about joining the church! So we are very excited about her. 

Random highlights: 

Got a new car on Wednesday (2017 Hyundai iX20). It's been really nice. Also visited Burnley and did a street display to help the elders there. It's a super nice town. 

Hope y'all are doing well! 

-Elder Ludlow 

September 18, 2017 Member Work

This past week was wonderful! We were able to see Carol and she is so
prepared. She has desires to join the church and also her 18 year old
son Rory to join as well. She asks many great questions and has had
many experiences with the Spirit guiding her. Carol and Rory came to
church on Sunday and loved it! They both were commenting in class and
they just seem like members already. We had our first Facebook video
chat this week which was fun! It was with our friend Emma who asked so
many good questions but then didn't show up to our appointment the
next day and hasn't responded to us.

Nothing else really happened other than that we are now focusing even
more on member work which makes the work seem slower but eventually we
will have amazing people to teach. Abby is moving into a new home and
so she has been busy with that. We have loads of part member families
that we are working with. We are really excited about the work here!

I am so grateful for the knowledge that we have as members of the
church. I'm grateful for the eternal perspective we have especially
after all these games that the Cougs keep losing. There are things
more important than sports 😉

Hope y'all have the best week ever because y'all are the best!

-Elder Ludlow

I love the temple so much.

September 11, 2017 Church Miracle

This week was a good one! Had a miracle with a super nice lady named
Carol walking into church which was very exciting. She has been
prepared! She has had lots of contact with the church and she went to
the pageant this year and she felt the Spirit so she came to church!
She has so much potential. We look forward to seeing her on Wednesday.
We saw Abby in a members home and it was great. She seems pretty
committed to the Gospel but her parents don't really approve of it now
that she is getting more serious with it. She loves it though! We saw
Tom and Holly and had a great Restoration lesson and they love the
Gospel but just have some things to overcome.

We have been finding some great people and Facebook has been a great
tool!  We went through our old paper area books and added a bunch of
people on Facebook from that and also went through our phones. It's
been great! We found a couple new people to start teaching. Facebook
is going to be a great tool! We had a zone Conference this week to
receive more training on it which was good.

Elder Tuipulotu had his birthday on Friday! (Same as JJ and Emily). I
secretly got the sisters to decorate our car and also set up a party
with a great family in one of the wards. It was loads of fun. We are
so spoiled by the members. I love this area.

-Elder Ludlow

Pictures:
1-2. Birthday fun
3-4. We have been on some amazing hikes the past 2 weeks!

September 4, 2017 Facebook!

So yes as some of you may know and some of you don't but our mission
is now using Facebook for missionary work! I'm really excited for the
work to move forward and to use this great tool. I am only allowed to
use it for missionary purposes though.

This past week was pretty good. Some slow progress with our
investigators and we had the Longworth family drop us. Robert said
that they regained their faith and went to their old church with other
family members and felt welcomed back. It is really unfortunate but we
helped them regain their faith in Jesus Christ. They will come around!
Please keep praying for them.

We weren't able to get ahold of Abby all week until we started using
Facebook and she actually messaged us first! We have been able to talk
with her and share things with her through messenger. She also came to
church and really loved it again. We will be seeing her tomorrow in a
members home!

We also have still been teaching Siobhan and she is progressing pretty
slowly. We have seen her change though. This week she expressed that
she now believes in God and also that she has felt the Spirit meeting
with us. She also came to the new convert fireside and really enjoyed
it. Speaking of the fireside, it's where people who recently joined
the church share their testimonies/conversion stories and it's super
good to bring investigators to and Eleanor actually spoke at it and it
was amazing! She bore such a powerful, pure testimony.

We have some other great people who I haven't mentioned. We are
teaching someone named Craig who was taught previously by missionaries
and already had a testimony of the Gospel but has struggled with
addictions. We are helping him come off of them and he should be good
to go in 3 weeks! We also are teaching a great couple Tom and Holly.
Tom is a returning member and Holly is super interested in joining the
church! We are seeing them tonight in a members home.

I love being a missionary.

-Elder Ludlow