Week 10 - Sept 4, 2018

Let's say this week started off as a huge finding game. First for people, but secondly FAMILY HISTORY. I have fallen in love. I just learned how this week but I have 139 names to send to the temple. I never thought i would like this but its so fun - matter of fact i think im going to do some during my pday today. We got dropped by a lot of people because I was so sick last week. I remember we biked the entire day on Tuesday in the blazing heat and being so frustrated. I remember just riding up a hill and being like "man this is super hard out here!" The mission is so awesome, but id be lying if i said the mission was easy. It's a different kind of hard - but it's an awesome learning experience and so far has been so worth it. We found two twins and their boyfriends and they want to be baptized! We have taught them twice and the two twins accepted a baptismal date for the 15th! BUT it turns out one of the girls doesnt speak super good spanish so we had to turn them over to the english speaking sisters! We were so disappointed. My comp and i were struggling and were not getting along super well and so I literally just told him how I felt, and he was like "okay." He was so cool about it and We are getting on awesome now. I think the mission is going to teach me how to deal with girls after the mission quite honestly. Something about girls i learned on the mission - I always wondered why girls served for a year and a half and boys two years. Im going to swallow some pride and say it. They literally are 2x less dumb than boys and do everything in the mission right. They dont need the extra time honestly. Something that my comp and I do here is talk MAD smack to the teenagers that we can sauce them up in a game of basketball. Back home, my friends know i suck and quit bball in 2nd grade but here, im taller than like everyone so its awesome. The other night i swatted a kid soooo hard and everyone was just like daaaaaang. It was super weird because im actually so bad at basketball but these kids were treating me like a God. Anyways, we actually got a lesson through it with a big family. We'll see where it goes. GUESS WHAT! Jesus got permission from his mom to be baptized on the 22nd of September! Finally!!! We invited their family to a ward party and then the next day to a baptismal service and I think they liked it a lot, and right after the baptism we pulled them all in a room. Elder Beuttenmuller went HARD and like basically expressed how important baptism is. I shared a scripture in matthew 19 verse 29 and just told them if she makes this sacrifice and lets him get baptized, theyll see blessings pour. His mom gave us permission to baptize him and we just went craaaaaazy and Jesus was so happy he could get baptized. Well, it turns out his sister was like "okay after Jesus I think I'm next" and his  brother, and mom have desires to be baptized also, but his mom says Jesus will go first and HOPEFULLY they will follow. Everyone please keep their entire family in your prayers. With your guys help we could baptize their entire family next month! We really need your help because this is in gods hands. Other than that, we have just continued finding and we are going to continue working hard. We know there are prepared people out there! I miss you guys a lot and I hope you're doing awesome. Please email me and fill me in on your lives! I'd love to hear! 

Hasta La Semana y no te olvides de mi!

Elder Freedman 

Address:

710 Alta Vista Avenue Apt. 120

Laredo, TX

Ps. I want to give a shoutout to my byu lax brothers aka 

Jack varvel (lettuce w1zard)
Connor bernal (bachanga boi)
Tanner Johnson (no nickname for you just don't forget I'm coming back from my mission more jacked than You are right now (jokes)) 

You guys are a blessing and thank you for the emails !!

1. elder allen and i bought some siiiiick all star jerseys, had to take a picture 

2. the comp burned his tie. was a pretty sick moment. i was hyped as you can see

3. thats the bridge across to mexico