LOVE

So this week has basically been a bust. We have worked hard to tell the truth, but the only thing that we have to show for it is the pain in our backs. But that´s the interesting thing about it. We had NO success despite our efforts, but because I did all that I could, I don´t feel bad about it. Elder Montero and I talked about this feeling of success without literal success. We succeeded for ourselves. We did all that we could and turned to the Lord every day for help and guidance. I don´t know what the Lord has planned for us or for this area, but we know that we did what we could. Just because life doesn´t go the way that you planned it or it´s harder than you thought it would be, that doesn´t mean that you are a bad person in some aspect in your life. You just don´t comprehend all the blessings and plans that God has for you.

So Sunday was a great day. I was sitting in our second ward, Maravillas, and a youth was talking about the importance of scripture. I felt a powerful urge to look around at all the people in the ward. As I did, I was filled with an amazing sense of love. My eyes filled with tears. My breath caught in my lungs. I put my head down and thanked my Heavenly Father for this wonderful blessing of love that I have for these people. In that moment more than ever before, I could not look at anyone as a different race or culture. All I saw were my brothers and my sisters of an eternal Father and I could do nothing but weep with joy at there attendance in our Father´s house of worship. The chapel was almost full but my heart was overflowing. I couldn´t possibly describe the emotion with mere words, but it was the ultimate feeling to have for another person. I touched a small portion of the love that God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost have for each one of us. Oh loved ones, I pray to feel that every day. I want that love and spirit with me every moment.

Have you ever seen a sunrise where the clouds are thick and rolling so that on the bottom you see the grades of red and pink stretching towards you across the entire sky of the east? Because I felt like the sun in that moment. Everything that I had inside of me was rolling out and touching every one in that sacrament meeting. I feel kind of like a broken record describing this again and again, but such is the power of love. Once you have felt it so deep in your heart, all you can do is try to share it with others. I can´t share it with you in any other way than these words so I have written many. Sadly, it is still not enough. So I have something better. I want you all to feel that too - to love every person not in spite of their faults, but with their faults, to see them as a son and daughter of the most high. To become so over come with the power of love that you weep with pure joy. That is my invitation to you. I hope that you will meet this invitation with prayer and sincerity of heart. Love is every action of God. Have that love and BE an action of God.

I love you. I don´t forget you because of the work that I have here. I love you more because of it. The distance is great but even greater is the spirit that connects us across the world.

Elder Heath