It was a good week!

So this week was great! I think more than anything I was grateful that I have been able to go out and work with so many missionaries. The past couple of weeks we had some slow spots but we have found that the more we sacrifice for others the better off it is for us. That means that this week Elder Young will be traveling the Zone like i did last transfer! haha. It will be good to work with Elder Self and help out on a more personal level with only two of us. I sure do love it when i get those opportunities with Elder Young. There is a good reason why companionships are suppose to be two people! haha.

So I have learned something quite recently. I have learned that the spirit is how to best motivate anyone into working their very best. It has been such a blessing to me as I have had to opportunity to share spiritual experiences with those around me. I was sitting in zone leader council last month when this hit me so powerfully. This is what happened...

It was the second zone leader council that i had the opportunity to attend. The spirit was very powerful as we discussed ways on how we could unite and help the mission more. There were a lot of different Ideas floating around the room and some great discussion. Then I looked at Elder Kilpelainen. I realized that of all the people throughout my mission he was the one that I "loved" most. If it is fair to put it like that. haha. anyways... I then began to look around the room and as I did I felt the overwhelming love and brotherhood with each person I looked at. I honestly don't know half the zone leaders very well... but as I looked at them, I felt love and a sense of unity flow. I was pondering why this is... It came as one of the most precious revelations I have ever felt.

The answer was so simple. It was the Spirit. I could feel the spirit and feel the love heavenly father had for each one of us. I then looked at Elder Kilpelainen again and realized the reason I had become such great friends with him was due to the fact that we had shared so many spiritual experiences together. I shared my thoughts as we discussed and the spirit witnessed very powerfully that was what i needed to do to help the missionaries in the zone. I knew that it was the spirit felt that leaves such lasting and memorable experiences in our lives. Why is it that a convert can think back and see the missionaries that taught them the gospel? why is it that when a stake president stands and bears testimony, we respect him? why is it that we feel bonded with complete strangers and feel genuine love for them? It all goes back to the spirit. It is the binding factor in anything and everything that we do.

As I have realized this I have come to see that I can love all people that I teach as I strive to share with them "spiritual experiences" I have come to realize that I can love every missionary, As i share the spirit with them. Best of all, I have seen as these moments are shared, more than anything we can feel the love Heavenly Father has for us. I have had more spiritual moments in striving to help others FEEL the spirit. I dont know how to describe it in words. but I know, that Heavenly Fathers wishes for all of us to be united with his purposes. Member or Missionary! to be one as the godhead is one! Seperate yet united... we can accomplish great things as we strive to "bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man."

I love you all, May we all strive to share the spirit with every person we come in contact with. As we do so, Heavenly Father will bless us. I know so, for he has done so for me.

With much love,

Elder Erick Delgado