Week 60 - Service, Service, Service... I love it!

Malo Etau Lava!
 

Hello friends! This past week has been great! We did a lot of service, we met new people, we listened to the Prophet, and I have another singing opportunity!
 

This week for service we went to the storehouse, helped a family move, and went to Christ's Haven to help build furniture and move heavy objects! At the move there was a really fluffy dog that's called a chow chow! He was so cute and very distracting - definitely a dog you would want to cuddle with forever. (There's a picture of him down below!)

At Christ's Haven we moved a whole bunch of furniture around and built IKEA furniture for a couple of hours! It was so fun building that one dresser, we're basically pros at IKEA furniture, definitely not a task for the faint of heart. I have a little testimony of service and how important it is to our happiness! Nothing makes me happier than making someone's burden lighter. If you ever feel down, go serve somebody, and I promise you, you will feel so much better. One of my all time favorite scriptures is in The Book of Mormon in Mosiah 2:17 
 

 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom;
that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings
ye are only in the service of your God.

 

To simplify it, when we serve others we are serving God!
 

This past week we also had the opportunity to share the gospel with a couple new people! We shared a scripture a nice lady and testified about Jesus Christ. We shared with her how He is our Savior and Redeemer and that He is our foundation. The other person we met was a man who wanted to learn about what we believed in, so we met with him and shared a bit about the restoration of Christ's original gospel here on the earth. We gave him a Book of Mormon and invited him to read from it. I love having experiences like these and being able to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others and hopefully having an impact on them! 
 

On Friday, I also had the chance to listen to President Russell M. Nelson's message on "The Healing Power of Gratitude". I totally recommend watching it if you haven't already. It is something we all needed to hear especially now during COVID-19. He heavily emphasized gratitude and how as we show gratitude to each other and to Heavenly Father, the hard times don't seem so hard anymore. He said something along the lines of it's better to count your blessing than to count your problems. 
 

I would like to invite you, for 7 days, to post on social media about what you are grateful for. Use the hashtag #givethanks, and see the flood of gratitude fill the internet! 
 

I love you all and I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving! Don't break your ankles at the Turkey Bowl.

Ofa Atu,

Elder Delgado

Week 59

Howdy Cowboys and Cowgirls! 🤠


I'm sorry I haven't sent an email in a couple weeks. It's partly because I'm lazy/forget to, but don't you worry, I didn't forget about y'all! I've got some news to fill you in on! 

About a week ago we had transfers. Elder Marsh got transferred to Arlington. Elder Dayley and I are still serving in Timber Creek. It's been pretty weird not having 3 people in the house anymore. There's a lot more wiggle room, a little too much... we ended up receiving some furniture from the Sisters in the Saratoga area (#diplomatic skillz). The catch is I owe them some Tongan food, so stay tuned for that story that will hopefully come up in the near future!

We also did a lot of service this week! From helping people move to helping out at the community storehouse to helping out at an Eagle Scout project we got a lot of service in. I really enjoyed the Eagle project because it was at an aviation museum! (For those who don't know I love airplanes and want to be a pilot.) When we pulled into the parking lot I felt like a kid in a candy shop! It was such an amazing experience to help an eagle scout and be around airplanes for a few hours. At the end of the project they let us get into the cockpit of a couple planes, and yes I can fit inside a cockpit for those who were wondering. ;)

This week we had an awesome opportunity to sing a few christmas songs and record them to be played at Temple Square in Salt Lake City during the Christmas season! It was super fun and a really great experience. We sang "Silent Night", "I am a Child of God", and "When It's Christmas in Texas". 

Something that I have been starting to get into is singing. It's funny that I've grown up in a musical family and am just now starting to get into singing. I guess I was always shy or selfconscious and never liked to sing in front of people. But recently, with some encouragement and help from one of my good friends, Sister Oldham, I'm starting to sing. We are singing a song called "Homeward Bound" and hopefully soon all y'all will be able to hear us sing. 

One of the scriptures I liked while I was studying this week was in Matthew 18:21-22:
 

  Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall
my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
  Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

What I love about this is that we shouldn't limit forgiveness. We need to be quick to forgive and not hold grudges and truly forgive and forget and continue loving our neighbor. I know that through forgiveness we can become more Christlike, and our relationships with others can become stronger.

Feel free to send me an email back if you want to talk about forgiveness or just catch up. I hope you all have a wonderful week. Go chase your dreams and make them a reality! 

Much love,

Elder Delgado 

Facebook Post - Oct. 25, 2020

"Carefully selected heroes can give us a pattern for our lives and serve as our role models. They can give us courage to walk the road of life righteously."

H. David Burton

One of my heroes is my big sister

Audrey Delgado Rogers

. She has set a great example for me and my little sister of what it's like to be patient, happy, faithful, diligent, and so many other great things. Audrey has also set a great example for me by going on a mission to Portugal. I was able to see her go out to Lisbon and serve the Lord. I read her emails, saw her pictures and heard her testimony of missionary work. Seeing all her amazing experiences inspired me even more to go on a mission.

Audrey is one of many heroes I have. It is important that we have good role models in our lives so we can live righteously.

Who's your hero?

-Elder Delgado

Facebook Post - Oct. 23, 2020

"Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ."

-The Family Proclamation

One of the many blessings that I have been giving in this life is my family. I love them so much and I'm so grateful my siblings and I were raised in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Why is family so important to you?

-Elder Delgado

Weeks 55 & 56 - Glorifying God

Hello!

This has been a pretty eventful week. From service projects to biking in the rain, we stayed pretty busy. 

We do a lot of service while on a mission, and this week we went to the community storehouse and helped them out with their needs. Mostly helping out in the food pantry or their resale distribution center. We love helping out there because they always need extra help and they are always super kind to us. We also served at a person's house in the area doing yard work. The awesome part of this story is that it was the house of a lady we met about a month ago at a different service project. Her family is super nice and they even bought us Chick-fil-a (@Uncle Dusty) that was delivered by a Chick-fil-a car! The world is really becoming a better place now that Chick-fil-a delivers.

This week I also posted a bunch on Facebook about the importance of families and how the Gospel of Christ is essential in building a happy family. I made a post about heroes (Audrey) and why we need heroes/rolemodels in our lives to set good examples for us so we can live righteously. I would strongly suggest checking out those posts! They also have pictures of some cool people! 

This week we were also able to talk about hope with one of our friends. We shared a scripture in Doctrine and Covenants 4:5
 

"And faith, hope, charity and love, with an eye single to the glory of God, qualify him for the work."

What I really like is the phrase "with an eye single to the glory of God." I feel like if we aren't focused on God we can lose hope, faith, charity, and love. I feel like if we focus on God and don't get distracted we can strengthen our hope, faith, charity, and love. So, if you ever feel like you are lacking any of these, turn to God and pray and focus on glorifying God. If you do these things your faith will grow and your hope will be impenetrable!

I hope yall have an awesome week! And I challenge you the have an eye single to glorifying God!

Love,
Elder Delgado

Week 54 - We Should Be Like Enos and Pray For Our Enemies

Howdy folks!

This weeks been a good one. We've really been trying to focus on our ward (congregation) members and helping them with any needs they have. It's pretty fun getting to know everyone and build up friendships with them. 

This week we couldn't get a ride to do service so we decided to ride our bikes. It was a fun little 30 min ride. The funny thing is that Texas is relatively flat, so it seems like you're always putting in effort to keep going because there isn't really a lot of downhill time. But anyways, at service we helped clean a class room up and laminated things for a teacher. 

We have also started to create a fun little video. It is still in the making, but maybe it'll be done soon and I can share it with y'all. 

This week I was studying in the Book of Enos in The Book of Mormon. One thing I really liked about Enos' story is that he prayed for his enemies, the Lamanites. I think it is important that we too pray for our "enemies". It makes us become more like Christ when we pray for our enemies. When we do this we can feel more peace and love and respect for the people who treat us badly. I hope you can think about your enemies and pray for them. Pray that they can receive blessings and that they too can come to know more of Christ and how they can come closer to Christ. I know it sounds weird but it makes a difference. 

I hope y'all have a great week and remember to love your neighbor!

Love,

 Elder Delgado

Week 53 - I Love Being A Trainer

Hello everybody!

This week has been great. I was able to pick up my new missionary that I'm training. His name is Elder Dayley. He is from Spanish Fork, Utah! He's such an awesome kid! I've really loved this opportunity that I have right now to be a trainer. 

This week I had my first Texas BBQ! The family made us 3 different racks of ribs! It was so delicious. 

This week we were also able to watch General Conference. For those who don't know, General Conference is a meeting our Church holds twice a year. We are blessed to hear from the living Prophet here on the earth and to hear from many other General Authorities of the church aka Apostles. I really loved President Nelson's talk where he was talking about letting God prevail. I loved this talk so much because he emphasizes how when we let God prevail everything in life gets easier. When we do God's will, he will not let us fail. There were so many good talks but that one was probably my favorite.

Oh yeah, and this past week I hit my year mark, or my halfway mark on my mission. It was pretty eventful.

Other than that we did a lot of service this week, and we had a bunch of good times. 

I hope y'all have a happy week!

Love Elder Delgado