November 27, 2017 Thankful

This week was good. Unfortunately Mark has dropped his date and is not happy with us. We taught him a few times and he passed his baptismal interview and then he came to a child of record baptism on Saturday and loved it. The only problem is that he smelt like alcohol and so we tried to approach him about it and he got really upset and stormed off. Some members have been in contact with him and he is not happy but we will keep working with him after some time. 

We are excited to say though that Emma has committed to be baptised! We saw her a few times and the lessons are always so good! I was praying on Saturday night for her to have ha spiritual witness on Sunday, specifically at church and while a recently returned missionary was speaking the Spirit was super strong and we looked over and Emma was crying. We asked her later and she said she had felt the Spirit and that she needed to be baptised! Another miracle! We are working towards December 9th with her. 

Light the World continues to be a success and we have seen so much positivity from visiting the different Ward Councils (yes councilS because there are 4 of them haha) and other members. We’ve seen an increase in desire to share the gospel, unity and overall better relationships with members. There are many members who have friends they are working with. Everyone is starting to catch the vision! 

For Thanksgiving we ate at the MTC for lunch and then a member made us a proper thanksgiving meal (they’ve lived in the states before) and both were amazing! The members here are way too kind to us, I am very grateful. I love English people! 

-Elder Ludlow 

November 20, 2017 Stake Conference

This week was good! Mark continues to progress and is still keeping commitments. We were able to teach Georgina’s sister Emma three times and she is so prepared! Georgina has already taught her a lot and so Emma basically teaches us the lessons. She also says that she has felt a confirming witness from the Spirit that the church is true!

We were able to see many member families this week and get them preparing for Light the World and it has been very successful so far. The stake presidency in particular are very excited and on board. We had stake Conference yesterday and all the meetings were about missionary work. We also had an inter faith event in Blackburn which was good. We did the Light the World theme and had a TV with the new video, banners, the calendars and loads of copies of the Book of Mormon. It’s always very good when we are able to get out into the community, I wish we could have more good opportunities to do so but we loved doing the display. 

-Elder Ludlow 

November 13, 2017 Staying in Chorley

I am very excited and happy to say that I will be staying in Chorley for another transfer and will also be staying with Elder Tuipulotu! We will be serving together for 3 transfers which is very uncommon but we make a good team 

This week was great! Joseph was baptised and it was a wonderful family baptism. Georgina spoke at the new member fireside and it was amazing and her sister Emma has now decided to start taking the lessons and pretty much committed to be baptised in January! Mark continues to progress and is now living all the commandments and we have seen a huge change in him. We also had an inactive member contact us and said she is wanting to come back to church and she has an unbaptised daughter and her husband is also not a member so we are excited to work with them. 

Random highlights: We filmed some videos around the church and temple to make a temple tours Facebook page where people can go on and book a time to go look around the temple! We are excited about it. Also, Elder Tuipulotu was asked by someone he taught to baptise him in Newcastle and so we drove down there for it on Saturday and that was wonderful. 

I hope you all know how much I KNOW that we are part of the true and living of Jesus Christ restored in these latter days! 

-Elder Ludlow 

November 6, 2017 Armour of God

This past week was pretty good! Had lots of things that took away from the work finding wise but were important for the work moving forward. Things such as MLC, Halloween and Bonfire night and helping the zone out. We had a Halloween activity with all the youth in the stake and it ended up being really successful. Each companionship in the stake (7 companionships in total) came to the stake centre and we each had a room where we had a little workshop or activity for the youth to do. For ours we got a ton of cardboard and some tin foil and tape and had the youth make the armour of God. It was so fun . The youth liked it and we hope to be teaching two new people from it. 

Mark continues to progress. Didn’t see him very much but he came to church and is sticking to his baptismal calendar. Georgina’s sister Emma came to Institute, a ward activity and to church! She is progressing but slowly. She had some amazing spiritual experiences this week, particularly with Georgina. Joseph passed his baptismal interview! His baptism will be this week. 

Georgina had another amazing dream! In the dream we were in a lesson and I told her to look up a scripture in Zachariah chapter 6 last verse (don’t even think she had heard of Zachariah) and to read it to her sister. So she did and her sister was amazed. Zachariah 6:15- “And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.” And then later on in the week some random keychain was found in Emma’s room that had never been seen before and it talked about letting the Lord guide you and so she has been amazed by all these things. 

The Lord continues to amaze us and we are so very #blessed. 

-Elder Ludlow