Promised Land...Monday, October 4, 2010

Hello Family!
How is everyone doing? I am loving my time out here in Georgia. I can't believe how fast time goes. This week has been so eventful I dont even know if i can fit it all into one email!
This week it started off great with Marcel and Camil. As many of you know Marcel and Camil are from Venezuela and were found one day through knocking doors. This was about 3 months ago with Elder Blair. They have not missed church since! This week Elder Collette and I stopped by to say hi and share some things with them. We were inspired to go over the baptismal interview questions with them.
As we did so you could see how ready they were to make the covenant of baptism. We commited them to be baptized the next week. They will be getting baptized this coming week on the 9th! It was awesome and is great to see how excited they are! We have worked hard to help them and developed so much love for them. Marcel has asked that I perform her baptism. Elder Blair will perform the ordinance for Camil.
This week we will also have the opportunity to see Jerry Embritz enter into the waters of baptism. He will be baptized this friday and It will be great to see him make this step in his life. there is no doubt he was prepared to recieve the gospel at this time and that he is going to make such a powerful influence for good in this world. I am praying that he will choose to go and serve a full time mission and reap the blessing that come in the service of God.
Along with all that great news... Jesse Lee... our northpoint friend was baptized this saturday between the sessions of conference and priesthood. It was wonderful to see. He was so happy and so many people came to support him. Many members of his family came to show their support even though they are not of our faith. We did a waterside confirmation and you could feel the spirit testify that he is moving forward! He will be a great force for good as well!
It feels like so much in so little time! I am feeling so truly blessed. During conference I was able to recieve some wonderful guidance from the words spoken. I feel like many things were said just for me. haha. What a great blessing we have in our lives to have modern day prophets and apostles. I know they have been called of God.
We have also been blessed to teach this wonderful family named the salas family. Carlos is 18 and he has shown great interest in learning about the gospel. he has come to church two weeks in a row now and has a baptismal date for the 23rd of october. we are praying all will go well and that we can do our part in preparing him. Over all that has been my amazing week here in the promised land.
I love you all and I am grateful for your support. Sorry sister Franny! I totally got your package and loved it. We all enjoyed the big league chew together as an apartment! haha.
brought back some memories of being a kid! even though i still am one!
Thank you for everything.

Much Love,
Elder Erick Delgado

p.s. Elder Empey our bolivian visa waiter has gotten his visa and will be flying out today.