Week 37 - March 11, 2019

Hey! So much happened but so little happened at the same time this week. Being here in mcallen was super stressful at first. It's actually the biggest zone in the mission and so when we all showed up at the church for Zone meeting it was so much different than my last zones that I was in. But my companion elder Fusco is a beast. He's like more than fluent in Spanish and knows every little slang word there is. He sips mate in the morning and just wants everything to do with any type of Mexican, central American, or south American culture. I'm going to learn a lot from him. When I got here it was pretty discouraging because we literally had no one to teach so we hit the pavement super hard. On the bright side in my last area Jacob, Raelynn, and Jessica were baptized! They all messaged me pictures and stuff like that and so even though I missed their baptism and was transferred 4 days before I was so happy for them! A lot of appointments (almost all of them) fell through but we did have one miracle this week. We met a lady named sol who literally has been having such a hard time in her life. She has been hiding from some bad people in her life but this one day, her friend convinced her to sit outside. Well, that day we found her. We invited Her to church and she came! That night we went over to follow up. She said that she had been praying and praying. She came to church yesterday and said that it was the first time she felt the spirit at a church. The ward here is huge. They put in so much work with sol and she said she had the best experience. She told us all about her life for Literslly like an hour and a half and elder Fusco and I probably said 50 words total that whole time. She said she was about to throw in the towel with God and she knows that we met her for a reason. Other than that things are good. I am super sad to hear that my uncle Mark Passed away but I am so Happy that he is in a better Place. Not a single bad word came out of that man's mouth. I'm going to miss the tickle fights and I remember one time especially that he took just me to a jazz game. I can't wait to make more memories with him and I know that is what the gospel is all about.

 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

I just realized that although I've made a lot of mistakes I want to do my very best to love everyone around me and love God because that's what uncle Mark did.

 I'm just so thankful that I know the things I know and I am hyped to be a missionary, because I get to share these things with other people.

Till next week!

Elder Freedman

Sorry, no pics this week. I'll try this next one :)