April 9, 2018 Jack was Baptized

This week was wonderful! Jack was baptised! It was a great service and he was very happy. Many of his family members were able to come and we actually found out that his dad was baptised over 20 years ago here in Oldham! We hope to teach his family soon. Angelina is still doing well. Mary is doing great! She has increased in her faith this week. She is now committed to seek for an answer by the 18th of April and if she does to be baptised the following week. She also came to the church, the fireside and even fasted yesterday to receive an answer! Deborah and Jack both spoke at the fireside last night which was incredible!

Finding this week was crazy good. We continue to be blessed with miracles. We are finding so many prepared people, there is so much potential in this area and we are excited to reach it. One of the people we found, Fernando from Portugal came to church yesterday and seemed to enjoy it.

We had MLC on Friday and I loved it. I always feel so excited and ready to improve after MLC. It’s also so fun to be around former companions. It’s been such a joy to be with Elder Audrlicky again, he is amazing. 

I was reading “The Character of Christ” by Elder Bednar this week and I just love that talk. Here is an excerpt from it: 

“Perhaps the greatest indicator of character is the capacity to recognize and appropriately respond to other people who are experiencing the very challenge or adversity that is most immediately and forcefully pressing upon us. Character is revealed, for example, in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress. Thus, character is demonstrated by looking and reaching outward when the natural and instinctive response is to be self-absorbed and turn inward. If such a capacity is indeed the ultimate criterion of moral character, then the Savior of the world is the perfect example of such a consistent and charitable character.”

I hope to exemplify this as much as I can in my everyday life and I invite you all to do the same! 

-Elder Ludlow