One Leg Ballast Resistor or Two

Please forgive my third-grade artistry but here's what I want to do. I have what is in the top half of this picture and want to go to the single resistor shown in the bottom half of the drawing.

I think all I need to do is connect both blue wires together to form one terminal of my single ballast connector. Then I can simply cut the red/green wire out of my harness and use the blue/brown connector for the other terminal.